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	Re: MBR is on the wrong drive Reply #45 - May 20^th, 2014 at 5:40pm Hi Brian, Well, I went ahead with my upgrade disk, it does have repair on it, and the best thing, is the fact that I'm posting this from my new computer. The repair disk seems to have fixed the problem. Is there any definitive test I can do? I still don't believe it.
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	Re: MBR is on the wrong drive Reply #46 - May 20^th, 2014 at 9:21pm Bill, That is great news and I was concerned as I can't understand why you could boot the first time and not the second. If the Win7 partition is System, Boot, Active in Disk Management then you are done. But it showed that after the first boot.
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Re: MBR is on the wrong drive
Reply #47 - May 20^th, 2014 at 9:42pm

I used the Windows repair that's on my instillation disk. (The windows repair CD)
Everything was backed up, so I booted to my windows cd and chose Repair. It said there were problems, would I like to fix them? I checked yes, it did irs thing and shut down.
I rebooted and windows worked.
I've replaced the old X drive 120GB SSD with the 256GB
So yes, it works.
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	Re: MBR is on the wrong drive Reply #48 - May 20^th, 2014 at 10:32pm Mr Moose wrote on May 20^th, 2014 at 9:42pm: I've replaced the old X drive 120GB SSD with the 256GB I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
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	Re: MBR is on the wrong drive Reply #49 - May 20^th, 2014 at 11:11pm disregard that, it just a change I made after I was able to boot the PC. You convinced me try my instalation disk is what worked
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	Re: MBR is on the wrong drive Reply #50 - May 20^th, 2014 at 11:30pm OK. All is well. In general, always install an OS to BIOS HD0. Create the NTFS partition before booting the Windows disk. Set the partition Active. Then boot from the Windows disk and install the OS. This prevents the booting files going to another partition.
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