Moving system partition and NT signature
Hello all,
I need suggestions/ideas on how to get my result.
I have a disk that is divided in many partition, one of them is the bootable system partition, others are data partitions.
Now I want to move the bootable system partition on a different disk, making it bootable and preserving the signature to avoid windows reactivation.
I want to avoid Windows reactivation because I don't know if the code is still "reactivable". The code belongs to a partner subscription that is expired, and the newer versions do not include anymore the Windows 7 ultimate. (no piracy, my copy is legal, but I don't know if reactivation is possible after so many years).
I own my Disk Director in version 11, but as I can see the 12 does not solve my problems.
Thus, I was thinking to clone my old disk to the new, but I cannot do it because the new disk will have to contain only one partition of the original one, and it will be smaller.
As far as I know the clone mode of DD is available only in two options.
- As is, not suitable for me, as the disk will be smaller
- Proportional, not suitable for me as far will be impossible to "manage" the proportions and exclude one volume, for instance.
So, cloning will be not suitable.
I could manually:
- copy the system volume on the new disk
- make the new disk bootable
- copy the NT signature from the original disk.
And the last step I don't know if it's feasable using DD and options other than the "clone" one.
Any help, suggestion, idea, experience to get the result will be really welcome.
Angelo

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