Step 9 At the command prompt type BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD And for that there is a simple command called BOOTREC, so no reason to go crazy by manually fixing the BCD store etc. So far so good, no rocked science, but at this point we must rebuild the BCD because it was stored on the partition we just deleted. Step 8 Type SEL PAR 2 confirm with enter and then type ACTIVE, when you get a result as shown below, type EXIT to leave Diskpart. Step 7 Now type DEL PAR OVERRIDE You should get the following result. Step 6 Note down the Partition Number and then enter SEL PAR in this case SEL PAR 1 Step 5 Then type LIS PAR to get a listing of the partitions Step 4 Note down the Disk number and then type SEL DIS in this case SEL DIS 0 Step 3 At the command prompt type DISKPART, then type LIS DIS, you should then get something that looks like this Once you see the Windows Setup menu, press SHIFT+F10 to open the command prompt. Step 2 Now boot the VM (or physical machine) from the Windows Installation media (USB/DVD).
Step 1 Open the Disk Management Console and get an overview of the current disk layout.
In case you plan to do this on a system with your or someone else’s data stored, I recommend making a backup BEFORE running the below described tasks. I’m sure I’m not the first one that blogs about this but I’ve seen so many lengthy and over-complicating descriptions (including instructions of loading the registry, use of 3rd party tools and rescue discs) that I decided to write this down anyway, even if it’s just for YOU who just stumbled over this blog post. To avoid a fresh installation of Windows I decided to re-use one of my Virtual Machine templates and apply the process described below. Today I worked on something where I needed a Windows 8 client that does not have a system reserved partition.
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