Removing XP disk from XP/Windows 7 Dual Boot

[ursellamcman]

I'm hoping someone here can help me with a vexing problem. Back about a year ago, I added a second disk to my Gateway P4 (which became drive D) and I installed Windows 7 on it). Initially beta, but now I'm running Win7 pro exclusively and I never boot into XP any more. Anyways, I tried to just remove the drive, but it seems at least part of the boot files were originally installed on the C Drive (Windows XP) which I no longer need.

Can someone please point me to a site where I can find a step by step on how to transfer or reconstruct all the boot files I need on the Windows 7 Disk, which I want to now be the primary C drive. I plan to removing the XP disk (currently C), but I can't do that (nor even do a backup of ONLY Drive D, the Windows 7 disk) because apparently the installer installed part of my boot files on drive C (XP). Any help in figuring out how to fix this would be great appreciated.

Please note that I have looked at numerous removal videos and procedures, but they all involve a disk that was previously partitioned for dual boot, and they are a single disk system. This is not the case here, I want to completely remove the original C drive and leaving the machine as a single disk system (or I'll format and reuse the disk for data storage later), but until I fix the boot files to run Windows 7 by itself, I can't do that.

Thanks in advance,

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[Alan2273]

I'm hoping someone here can help me with a vexing problem. Back about a year ago, I added a second disk to my Gateway P4 (which became drive D) and I installed Windows 7 on it). Initially beta, but now I'm running Win7 pro exclusively and I never boot into XP any more. Anyways, I tried to just remove the drive, but it seems at least part of the boot files were originally installed on the C Drive (Windows XP) which I no longer need.

Can someone please point me to a site where I can find a step by step on how to transfer or reconstruct all the boot files I need on the Windows 7 Disk, which I want to now be the primary C drive. I plan to removing the XP disk (currently C), but I can't do that (nor even do a backup of ONLY Drive D, the Windows 7 disk) because apparently the installer installed part of my boot files on drive C (XP). Any help in figuring out how to fix this would be great appreciated.

Please note that I have looked at numerous removal videos and procedures, but they all involve a disk that was previously partitioned for dual boot, and they are a single disk system. This is not the case here, I want to completely remove the original C drive and leaving the machine as a single disk system (or I'll format and reuse the disk for data storage later), but until I fix the boot files to run Windows 7 by itself, I can't do that.

Thanks in advance,

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