Question concerning two active partitions in Wn 7

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I had a registry error occur and had to do a clean install of Win 7 Prem. In the clean install, I did not reformt the c partition and just installed over the top of the formatted drive.
When I did do the first clean install, in built a hidden system reserv on the designated disk and the rest of WIN 7 went into the c: partition.

When I did the second clean install, it put the system reserve on another drive and did not reuse the origianl "d:" partion. When I examine the drives under DD 11, I see I have two active partions. The MBR and bootloader are on the second drive updated with the date of the clean second install.

My question is, can I reactivate the original system reserve and deactivate the second one?

Steps I think I need to do
Build bootable media with DD and True Image Home 2011 (done)
Boot from the media
deactivate the origianl sytem reserve from the first clean install
Reboot with media
deactivate the second system reserver
Reactivate the old system reserv from DD
Remove the media
Reboot into Win 7 from the internal disks

YoYour help please.

mar 01/03/2011 - 22:04
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Can you post a screenshot of what Disk Management shows for the drives?

Is the second drive now the booting drive? It would appear that it is since Windows placed the booting partition on it. The screenshot would tell for sure.

The original may require a repair or some fixing. This can probably be done more easily before you make any other changes.

mer 02/03/2011 - 00:43
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Thanks for the reply.  It is indeed booting from the second drive.  I have not made any changes yet.  The steps above are what I think can be done, but wanted to vet the steps prior to execution

The primary reason I want to change to the origianl, is that True Image Home 2011 wants to backup the c and e partition.  The e partition becasue of the system reserve.  As that can get to be a lot of gb to backup that I don't need to.

I have attached the screenshot as requested.

Thank you!

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ven 04/03/2011 - 13:40
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There is no System Reserved partition on the drive with the E: partition.

Can you please do a screenshot of Disk Management (not DD) so I can see what Windows is reporting?

Also, can you attach the output from bcdedit? Run an Administrator Command Prompt and then run the following command: bcdedit > c:\bcdoutput.txt

Then, attach the c:\bcdoutput.txt file.

ven 04/03/2011 - 17:12