How to create or repair or move the bcd boot file in Windows7

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I used to manipulate the boot.ini manually in my XP days. Now, playing with Win 7, I managed to install it in a way that it created a boot file on a different drive than I usually boot from, so now I don't have dual-boot. To my surprise, I found out there is no boot.ini anymore 🙂 and I have to use bcdedit which is a pretty complex tool. How can I move my boot file to another drive?

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Scott Hanselman saved me. Windows 7 has yet another simpler tool called bcdboot to make such kind of tasks easier.

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I'm fairly certain you can't manage the My Documents folder that way. You'll need to either edit the local security policy/local group policy, build a script to re-map it, or use Group Policy for after the computer is set up and joined to the domain.

In certain instances, where some networks don't have Active Directory to use Group Policy, using the local group policy should work.

Here's an example

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You need to tell the installer to do a kickstart installation. You can do this in one of two ways:

A. When you see the installer screen type linux ks=/ks.cfg
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label linux
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