As you do not have drive C encrypted, there is no need to abandon or even resize the partition. Disable Windows RE and convert partition 1 to basic as advised by Pentagon. Then enable Windows RE...

Not in msconfig.

But this is the easy part anyway. It just makes more sense to render the system unbootable msconfig lets you.

You may want to start with adding an EFI System Partition to Disk...

You'd have a hard time deleting the other...

It does not mean anything. You'll never see two partitions tagged "Boot" in those partitioning tools as it marks the live operating system. There can't be two of them.

This wasn't an issue to begin with as Boot, Page File and Crash Dump are tags of the powered-on machine. There is never more than one "Boot", "Crash Dump" and mostly "Page File" per Disk Management...

Yes.

That is correct.

In your image partition 2 is selected, so no volume is selected as diskpart does not consider Reserved a volume.

Skip the list stuff and enter

select disk 1

select partition 1

as we know...

After replacing it again, startup repair efforts may come down to running

bcdboot C:\Windows

BIOS Boot Manager more or less does the same...

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Well, after all the topic is how not to have to




which makes adding the GPT OS to the MBR Boot Manager a somewhat experimental suggestion that is not so much about the pros and cons of dual...

Sure. It reboots.

I actually managed to establish an MBR-32/GPT crossover.

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Install both operating systems on the MBR disk.

I wonder why such investigation is conducted on a brand new recovery partition when an EFI System and a Microsoft Reserved Partition in the middle of the disk are the real curiosity. Not to mention a...

It could have been prevented by creating the new Windows partition beforehand, i.e. not installing to unallocated space.

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Wrong at what? Quoting you?

I have always said that


And yes, of course the partition can be marked as active. How could it not if System and Boot were unified by default in the days of XP and...

I did like you suggested...

Me too...

Before:

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No. You'll render the installation unbootable by moving the "active" mark to a partition that holds no boot manager. It will result in BOOTMGR IS MISSING even on the Windows partition.

BUT as...

Disk 1 has an inappropriate partition marked as active.

Mark System Reserved as active. Assign System Reserved drive letter S. Run

bcdboot G:\Windows /s S:

in command line.

Basically you could mark the disk in question as active, if it isn't already, and run automatic repair with the other disk detached.

This is actually fairly easy solved. Post an image of disk management for more clarity.

Whether you are going to use MBR or GPT is governed by the way you BOOT Windows Setup.

Windows 32-bit will NOT give you an option to boot in EFI mode. The LEGACY mode you will boot Windows 32-bit...

Direct for all operating systems except Windows 7 through 11.