Remove XP from dual booting with repartioning

[tlaybourn]

Hello

Can anyone point me in the right direction with this.

Customer has given me a dual XP and 7 booting PC.
XP as 1st partition with about 80% of HDD
7 as 2nd partition with 20% of HDD

Wants to amalgamate partitions and only boot to 7

What I did:
Booted Partedmagic
Cloned HDD
Removed 1st partition
Cloned 2nd partition into space at the front of the HDD
Removed 2nd partition
Expanded new 1st partition to take up all of the HDD
Confirmed data is all there

Tried to boot Windows, and failed so:
Booted Windows DVD
Made new partition active
Did the fixmbr fixboot to make a new bootloader

But still won't boot.
Tried to fix with tools on Windows DVD but no go.
Quite possibly some steps missed above but that is the gist.

Am going to clone the HDD back to what it was and start again, but where did I go wrong?

 

[AndyM]

This should help

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-gb

Andy

 

[nlinecomputers]

Andy is on the right track. Your BCD likely needs to be rebuilt as it points to the second partition and not the first.

 

[tlaybourn]

Schoolboy error by myself!

I should have used a Windows 7 32bit DVD not 64bit as original install was 32bit.

Clue was when I had the Windows DVD booted, it said the disk was incompatible (or something like that).
What confused me was I could see all the data, chkdisk was OK.

Anyway what I did:
Booted Partedmagic
Cloned HDD
Deleted XP partition at start of HDD
Copied win7 partition to front of HDD
Deleted old win7 partition at end of HDD
Made new partition active
Booted Win7 32bit DVD
Did a chkdsk c: (errors were fixed)
Rebooted DVD
Allowed automatic repair of startup
Booted Windows
Used Computer Storage MMC to expand C: to full HDD
Copied XP stuff back in from clone