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Clown over an internal disk, main disk would not boot

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I have been using True Image 2015 to clone two of my disks, Win7 32 Bit and Win7 64 Bit, to two Seagate expansion USB disk with no problems. I have never tried to recover either disk. I was able to boot from three disks, Win7 32 Bit, Win7 64 Bit and XP Pro 32 Bit. No problems. I decide to clone my main drive C:\ Win7 32 Bit to the XP Pro 32 Bit drive I:\. First I deleted the entry for XP Pro using EasyBCD. Then I started to clone the XP Pro drive. All went OK. After restart I got a message on a black screen that there was no BootMgr. I used my Microsoft installation disk and repaired this. Finally I could boot up to drive C:\ win7 32 Bit. Using Windows explorer I could drive I:\ and it had an exact copy of my drive C:\. What was the problem with the first bootup with no BootMgr? My plan was to try and recover my clowned copy of drive C:\ on the Seagate expansion disk to the new clowned Win7 32 Bit on drive I:\ to see it would boot.

I hope the about makes sense as I am 73 years old and have had 2 strokes.

Thank you     

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Ted, from your description of your computer with the three OS systems in a triple-boot scenario, then one of these OS's, probably the first Win 7 32-bit OS on drive C: is also hosting the hidden / system Boot folder with the BCD store data unless you have a separate Microsoft System Reserved partition to host this data?

When you clone that Win 7 OS to your I: drive, this would therefore clone the Boot / BCD store but this would then be mismatched to your other partitions as the BCD store is no longer on your C: drive.  Note: that Windows XP didn't use the BCD for booting.

I guess the real question here is to ask what it is that you are trying to achieve here?

Personally, I very rarely use cloning as an option to  protect my installed Windows OS - I find it more convenient and safer to do a full disk Backup and use this for Recovery when needed.