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Win7 32bit loops at boot when using cloned disk

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Here is what I did and wanted to achieve

I have two old HP NC6320 Notebooks, the only difference is the brand of the disks (one Fujitsu, one Seagate).
After XP support is gone I bought two WIN7 Ultimate licenses to replace the XP on this old fellows. I do need them because I need true serial com ports, not USB.

Took me a while to make one of them working with WIN7 Ultimate.

To avoid investing the same efforts in the second PC, I used TIH2014 to clone the Win7 disk, then I had planned simply to activate and use the second WIN7 license.

For cloning the disks I used my workstation, process went through right away, no errors.
However, if I power on the PC with cloned disk, it comes up with
"Launch startuip repair (recommended)"
"Start Windows normally"

The startup repair takes for 15 minutes and ends with no repair.
Choosing the normal start ends up in a loop starting , restarting, starting , restarting... but windows doesn't come up.

Any help aprecciated

Jackko

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The disk signature is wrong for the machine you are trying to boot. To test attach cloned disk to the machine used to make the clone from and test boot. If successful you might be able to rebuild the BCD boot store files using a win 7 install disk and command prompt. Do a google search for how to and look for results from microsoft support sites for reference.

Hi, thanks for the hint. I had two issues... the one with BCD - so I used this instruction:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/rebuild-bcd-store-window…

Also in the "new" target PC I had SATA Native Mode enabled, which wasn't in the source PC.

Disabled it and --- I have a working clone. Only had to enter the new W7 licence

C.