Chris Wilson Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Sorry, yet another PC question! I used Visual BCD to move a system boot from D: Drive to C: Drive and all went fine. I am not sure if there was a hidden "boot" folder in C:\ before or not, but there is now. I don't know if I can take ownership, change permissions and delete it, or if it is still used now that the boot stuff is on the C: Drive as I wanted. Does anyone know please? Screen shots of the file structure are at: http://www.chriswilson.tv/boot.jpg and http://www.chriswilson.tv/root.jpg if the attached images are too small. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binfieldx Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Sorry, yet another PC question! I used Visual BCD to move a system boot from D: Drive to C: Drive and all went fine. I am not sure if there was a hidden "boot" folder in C:\ before or not, but there is now. I don't know if I can take ownership, change permissions and delete it, or if it is still used now that the boot stuff is on the C: Drive as I wanted. Does anyone know please? Screen shots of the file structure are at: http://www.chriswilson.tv/boot.jpg and http://www.chriswilson.tv/root.jpg if the attached images are too small. Thank you. How did you install C:\ ? From what I remember if you force the PC to skip the additional 100MB partition (on 1st setup) containing the files it will automatically create a folder on the C drive named boot containing the files to boot up windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 It's a hidden file to stop damn tinkerers like you going around and deleting it! As above, if you've used various boot disks to get to the stage you're at with the install then it will have come from that. Doing a fresh prep should keep a separate partition and not make that folder....my advice - leave it be, it might be useful one day if not now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike2JZ Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Yeah don't touch that otherwise you will run into all sorts of fun trying to get your PC trying to recognize where to boot from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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