Windows 10: Change boot partition

I had experimented with Virtual drives but have since turned off that services and expected the C: drive to drop from it's much larger usage back to it's original smaller size but that didn't happen.


I found another drive that Windows 10 had created and copied the original drive C: to but now has a new drive letter. Using a partition manager I was able to manipulate partition sizes so I could copy that saved partition back into the first position on the SSD. The machine still boots to drive C: so now I want Windows to boot from the newly copied partition that I created.


How can to change the boot order so it uses this original Windows 10 installation instead of the one that got modified a week ago. (FYI, I'm going to delete that new partition and free up that drive space eventually.)


Jim

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Changing boot hdd

I downloaded PartitionMagic8.0, but the partition i want to make is not bootable.
So the system boots from the old, loud hdd, and when i unplug the old, it doesnt boot.
Any advice or suggestions how to change boot hdd without reinstalling Winxp?

 

W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

How to go about building a tri-boot system?

i dual boot all the time, and going in to tri boot is easy.

step 1) partition the drive in to 3 partitions ( leaving 1 empty for the linux installer. )
step 2) install windows on the first 2 partitions.
step 3) install linux, and let it auto partition the remaining space. ( i recommend at least 30gb of space for linux, because it will make things a lot easier. )

step 4) enjoy.