dual booting clone
I made a clone of my Win 7 boot drive. The clone will boot if I disconnect the original drive. The original will boot when both are hooked up. I remember editing the sys ini file back in XP days to dual boot. I downloaded the shareware version of EasyBCD but it is not intutively being all that easy. In Windows Disk management I have a small system drive 0 reserved partition and the C drive. Drive 1 appears as the letter D for the small reserved parition and drive E as the primary boot partition. BCD sees only one entry in the bootloader:the C drive. It allows for c d e etc on the drop down menu. First of all is what I am attempting to do even possible? Second, which drive letter should I attempt the D labled system reserved partion or the big E drive?


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Well I guess I got lucky then as I made no backups before doing a clone. That being said, I will just pull the plug on the second drive. I am going to do a full backup on an external USB drive inclosure. They should consider more pop up warnings if some one clicks on the clone option.
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Kevin, glad to hear that you were lucky with the clone. We get some unlucky users coming to the forums who have lost one or more drives. I agree about needing more pop-up warnings but people tend to get a little complacent when you use them too much, plus there are so many different variations of the product being used too (lots of disk manufacturers bundle their branded version with a new drive, i.e. from Crucial, Seagate, PNY, WD etc) so would need a change to every version too.
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Take a look at post: 129009: Cloning Confusion - Having 2 Disks As Boot Options from another user in the 2017 forum that touched on this same subject very recently.
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