change boot partition in Windows 8

Question

I have Windows 8 installed on C: drive.

But my Laptop boots from E: Drive. Here is the bcdedit output.

And Here is the disk management's screenshot.

Can anyone tell how to move boot files to C: drive.

I want to format drive E: but it doesn't.

Solution

bcdedit output shows that boot files are on Volume2 which is not mapped.

But disk management shows active partition mapped to drive e:.

Maybe How to move(copy) Windows 7 boot files to another drive/partition and make it bootable can help. The procedure is the same for Windows 7 and Windows 8.

In you case while booted in Windows 8:

1. In disk management mark partition mapped to drive c: as active (click on partition and then right click and select from pop-up menu)

2. Open administrative command prompt and type:

bcdboot c:\windows (and enter)

After reboot you should be able to delete e: (or format it) if it does not contain files you want to keep.