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Migrate Easy 7.0 unistall screws up boot installation - rendering computer failure to boot

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Your software Migrate Easy 7 should be pulled from your website immediately.

I have confirmed this 3 times. 2x on Windows 7 32bit Pro, and 1x on Windows XP home.

When installing Migrate Easy 7 all is well when I went to unistall the trial from the system before the 15 day trial mark or after the date the application removes bootmgr from the hard drive, or modifies it in such a way rendering your system useless and it will not boot, it will keep looping. BIOS Screen > Windows Screen for a second >restart> repeat.

I was able to fix this by doing a few things but, for the regular user this is pathetic, poorly tested software.

Even Windows 7 repair disks do not work on this problem. I had to manually run some command line scripts with my Windows 7 disc to make it work again.

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Is the PC a brand name computer?

Are these OS's on the same PC as multiboot or are they in a VM or just different machines?

I recently downloaded the trial version and installed it on W7 64bit and it uninstalled OK.

Dell Optiplex 755
Dell Latitude D830
IBM Thinkpad (dont know the model number)

These were having issues, after updated and some software was installed such as: (I installed again on a clean slate and same problem) not sure what you are doing differently.

These systems only are Single OS installed. Anyway, good luck I found a different product that doesn't have these issues. I can't have unreliable software like this.

VLC Player
Office 2003
IE8
McAfee Virus Scan 8.7
FireFox
Adobe Reader
Malwarebytes
Flash, Flash IE, Java, .net, Silverlight, Air
Google Earth
In addition some Printers, Sharp and HP.

Same exact thing happened to me. After migrating to a new drive and then installing the new drive into my laptop, uninstalling the Easy Migrate trial version either changed my drive letter path or screwed up my boot configuration. Now I can't boot into the drive and have no clue how to fix the issue.

Please help.

Thanks

Try performing a reverse clone, this performs better on laptops than a normal clone for some reason.

Put the new drive in the laptop and the old externally, boot from the rescue CD and then clone the external to the internal, disconnect the external reboot.

I think some of the problems maybe down to how or if the partition is made active, without this Windows of all flavours can't boot.

@Paul,

If you have access to a disk partition program that runs from a CD or floppy drive or USB stick if Linux based, you might be able to check if the drive is actually marked as Active, if it isn't then mark it so. DownloadingAcronis Disk Director trial would eb able to tell you this, but I'm not so sure if it would be able to make the drive active (if that is what it needs) due to the trials 100MB limit.

I appreciate the reply Colin. The drive letter had been changed to D. After some research I used my Win7 install disc and Windows recovery environment, to repair the MBR using bootrec.exe.

I'll chalk it up to knowledge gained for future use.