Windows 7 loads on the wrong drive. How to fix?

I had a full load of Windows 7 Professional on my PC, which had Vista Ultimate top.  He left Vista on my C drive and load Windows 7 on my D drive (which is a small partition used for the restore on my hard drive).  How can I fix it?  I want Windows 7 on drive C!

Hello

You can reformat your D: drive and it will remove your extra copy of Windows, however, while you deleted your redundant copy that you will always get a start menu double giving you the ability to start Windows 7 or Windows Vista. You can fix this by changing the boot BCDedit file but it's complicated. The simplest option is to download the freeware app EasyBCD http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 to install the application on the operating system that you want to keep, for example, Windows 7 and then click the Add/Remove Entires. From there, you can remove the Windows Vista entry from the boot loader. John Barnett MVP: Windows XP Expert associated with: Windows Desktop Experience: Web: http://www.winuser.co.uk; Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org; Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org;

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