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Cloning the Win7 partition to a SSD, leaving the Win8 partition on the old hard drive

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I have been trying to use the clone feature of True Image to move just the Win7 partition on a dual boot machine that currently has both boot partitions on one drive. When the program gets to where you chose the destination drive I am unable to select the ssd, which is 256gb. The older Sata drive is 1TB.

How would I go about moving just the Win7 boot partition and still keep dual booting?

Thanks.

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Brad,

TI will only clone the complete disk, what you need to do is make a partition only image of your W7 partition and restore that to your SSD drive.

There could be some extra steps required deprnding on how you have your current system set up and whether you are using the W8 boot manager or the W7 one.

If the new drive is also going onto the same machine as it is on now, you shouldn't need to add in any extra drivers.

I made a backup that included the W7 and W8 partitions. When I restored the W7 partition to the SSD drive, I could not boot from that drive. I received the 'missing ntldr' message. I had unplugged the Sata drive that had the dual OS's installed. I am using the SSD on the same computer, but it really is not large enough for both W7 and W8, and I use W7 a lot more.

I have been using the W7 boot loader, since I prefer to default to W7.

Did your Windows 7 install have its own System partition as well as the main 'C' partition?

It is quite possible that all that needs to be changed is the information in the W7 BCD as it will be pointing to a location that no longer exists.

This can be done by using the command line from either the Windows install DVD or froma Windows 7 repair CD and accessing BCDEDIT, you will have to read up on BCD commands or look at Mark (MVP) thread.

I'm not sure fi the Windows based BCEDIt (free download) can be used to load a BCD from another PC and save it back, as this would be the esiest route.

Yes, the W7 install had it's own System Partition. Whenever I would boot to W7, it would get the 'C' drive designation and the W8 partition would become the 'D' drive. When W8 was booted, it became the 'C' drive and the W7 partition would be the 'D' Drive.

I will look into BCDEDIT, thank you.

Well, I was able to get the computer to boot from the ssd, I used a program called Visual BCD Editor. But when I booted from the ssd, the programs all pointed to the old Win7 partition. I was able to get the complete boot loader onto the ssd, but when I disconnected the old drive, I ended up getting a message saying my Win7 was not genuine. Although it will take a lot more time, I may do a clean install of Win7 on the ssd, unless I can find a way to make the restore work.

The W7 genuine message sometimes resets itself, but if it doesn't normally reactivating it sorts that out. Microsoft have assumed you are using a new machine, rather than a bit of drive fiddling.