2010-11-24, 14:08 | Link #1 |
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moving windows 7 to a faster hard drive
Hi,
I would like to move my operating system from a slower 300g drive to a faster 1T drive. What would be a good way to do this? Would using control panel to make a disc image allow me to do this? Anyone have experience doing this? Thanks in advance. |
2010-11-25, 22:43 | Link #3 |
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Oh Hell, I'm doing something wrong.
Tried Windows 7 backup utility. Made an image. Made a bootable disc. Won't let me copy the image to the target disc; it says the disc is active? Tried Seagate's free disc cloning program. It lets me copy the image and says its successful. My rig won't boot from that disc, it says the boot manager is missing? Could someone link to an idiot proof set of directions? I think I need some. All I'm trying to do is move my operating system (on a 100 gig partition) to a 1T drive. |
2010-11-26, 03:19 | Link #4 |
Asuki-tan Kairin ↓
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You can use the windows repair console to fix the MBR and the Boot Manager (...see/google bootrec in Vista and Win7 or look here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392).
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2010-11-27, 11:09 | Link #7 |
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I used Norton Ghost to clone the partition to another hard drive.
Jinto's right: either fix the MBR and the bootrec in the Repair Console, or if that fails, you'll have to repair the operating system with the installation disc (in my case, I moved an 80GB hard drive from a wrecked Compaq Deskpro to a custom-built system and got a disk read error; after the MBR fixing failed, I had to repair my XP installation without having to wipe the whole drive clean).
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