change boot drive data with windows 8
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:09 am
Okay, this is strange. I've been running Windows 8 for a while now and it looks like it did something strange when I installed. I currently have 3 HDs installed on the system. My C: drive (HD1) is where I have Windows 8 installed. What it looks like Win8 did was boot the boot files (the Bootmgr, Boot directory, bootnxt) on another data drive (HD2). I want to reformat HD2 but since those files are there I can't do anything with HD2.
Is there anyway that I can make HD1 be the real boot drive (where it holds the Bootfiles as well as the Windows files)? I tried deleting the files off the F: drive (HD2) but then Windows wouldn't boot so I had to repair the files. That caused it to recreate the boot files on F: instead of C:.
Is there anyway that I can make HD1 be the real boot drive (where it holds the Bootfiles as well as the Windows files)? I tried deleting the files off the F: drive (HD2) but then Windows wouldn't boot so I had to repair the files. That caused it to recreate the boot files on F: instead of C:.