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Chuck Wintle
01-11-2011, 9:46 AM
Currently I have 2 bootable partitions..XP in the first and WIN & pro in the second. I want to move the Win7 partition to the first partition...will it still be bootable? :D

Larry Frank
01-11-2011, 8:48 PM
If it were me, I would buy a new hard drive, create the partitions and make image copies to the new partitions. This way if something goes wrong, you do not lose your computer while you re-install everything. To copy the bootable partition, I think that you need to make image copies of the drive and not just copy.

paul cottingham
01-11-2011, 9:02 PM
If the partition is primary, active and has a boot record, yes, otherwise probably not. Make copies, install on new drive.