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[azspeedbullet]

How can i remove a boot loader from a hard drive without formarting the drive? I have an old hard drive that i use for data storage that used to have windows xp (i deleted all of the windows files many years ago). My bios will sometimes try to boot off that drive even thru i have my windows 7 hard drive as the first bootable drive

[Kami-]

Disk Manager, make the drive non-bootable...

[Detection]

Or partition the drive, move files to new partition, format old partition with boot record, move files back over, delete new partition and give space back to first partition

[Kami-]

Detection, on 28 July 2012 - 23:39, said:

Or partition the drive, move files to new partition, format old partition with boot record, move files back over, delete new partition and give space back to first partition

That seems like overkill when what I suggested will work fine and is a lot less work...?

[Detection]

Kami-, on 29 July 2012 - 00:11, said:

That seems like overkill when what I suggested will work fine and is a lot less work...?

I didn't say to ignore your way, I just added it as another option (Hence the "Or" part

[FalsePositive]

Kami-, on 28 July 2012 - 23:37, said:

Disk Manager, make the drive non-bootable...

How do you do that?


@azspeedbullet, you should backup your data. If not, plan on losing it all one day.

[azspeedbullet]

i guess i might have to backup and format the drive the correct way since the file system is still fat32