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...cdedit" etc. To cut an even longer story short, I did something like: X:\ diskpart diskpart> select disk 0 diskpart> select partition 4 (the NTFS system one) diskpart> set id=ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 X:\ bcdedit /set {default} device partition=C: X:\ bcdedit /set {default} osdevice partition=C: X:\ bootrec /rebuildbcd After doing that, the system partition appears as C:, passes chkdsk, and the system boots successfully into Windows. 3 questions: - what should I have done instead to create a dual-boot system on this hardware (the above is ridiculous and took hours of tri...