<div dir="ltr">So your original partitions are not on place. Check if you have the windows boot partition which is about 100 MB FAT and the windows factory install which should be few gigabytes.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>built-in windows tools?? but I can't
boot windows, that original drive doesn't boot.. I can still plug
it in and copy to/from the disk, the windows partition is still
there, it just won't boot.<br>
the only backup I have, is just files, not clonezilla, acronis,
nada, just file copies.<br>
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<div>It was assumed that you understand that you need to make
the image from the original (old) drive first, then restore it
to the new drive. If you already wiped out your old drive
before getting the new one working, then... ??? Don't use
clonezilla or other imaging tools, use the built-in Windows
tools. The Windows image is a different type of image then a
simple bit-for-bit copy, so it is more flexible than something
like clonezilla.<br>
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A Windows image doesn't care what partition it's on. When you
restore it will set everything up correctly. It sounds like
you're making this harder than it has to be. I suggest you
start by assuming this drive is just running Windows, then add
Linux later as you did before. That small partition before the
Windows one is the Windows boot partition.<br>
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<div>❧ Brian Mathis<br>
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@orev<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:31 PM,
Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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problem with that method is, you need to be able to
boot into<br>
windows... and...I....can't. setting up Windows 10
Preview in VMware as<br>
we speak.. Fedora 21.. finally got all the headers
& kernel-devel<br>
installed...<br>
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> A regular file copy does not get everything
needed to boot the system,<br>
> so that will not work. The best way to do this
is to create an image<br>
> backup on an external drive, then boot from the
Windows 7 DVD and<br>
> restore the image. Here is an explanation of
how to do the backup:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4241/how-to-create-a-system-image-in-windows-7/" target="_blank">http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4241/how-to-create-a-system-image-in-windows-7/</a><br>
> That article also explains how to perform the
restore from the DVD<br>
> (System Image Recovery).<br>
><br>
> Once that's done, you will have the extra space
available on the new<br>
> drive, which you can either expand the current
Windows partition, make<br>
> a new one, or use it for another purpose (such
as Linux). I don't<br>
> think you should need a driver for the hard
drive -- it's probably<br>
> just confused because of how you performed the
file copy.<br>
><br>
> I'm not sure if I would use Windows 10 preview
as your everyday<br>
> system, since Microsoft is collecting metrics
on what people are<br>
> doing, so there could be some privacy issues
there (that's the nature<br>
> of the Insider program).<br>
><br>
><br>
> ❧ Brian Mathis<br>
> @orev<br>
><br>
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> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Paul
Cartwright<br>
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wrote:<br>
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> ok, I know, this is a linux group... but
I don't know where else<br>
> to turn.<br>
> My desktop original HD1 stopped booting,
so I got a new 3TB drive.<br>
> I can<br>
> still get to the old drive using my new
fantastic IED-SATA $10 gizmo..<br>
> so I partitioned my "NEW" HD1 so windows
is still on sda3 like it was<br>
> before, and I copied all the old files
into it. When I boot I am<br>
> getting the File: \Boot\BCD error
attempting to read Boot<br>
> configuration. on sda3 there is a
\Boot\BCD.<br>
> When I run my Windows 7 rescue CD it asks
for the driver CD which... I<br>
> can't find. I have tried downloading all
the device driver files from<br>
> Dell, but nothing seems to work. It
doesn't like the R*.exe files and<br>
> every folder that has the drivers in
them, I have clicked on every<br>
> file<br>
> and it still tells me error.. What I
DON'T have is the driver for the<br>
> ST3000DM001 3TB HD.. and the original was
a 2TB HD..<br>
> when I boot the rescue CD it doesn't show
my HD, and wants<br>
> drivers. If I<br>
> click NEXT anyway, then command prompt, I
can run :<br>
> bootrec /rebuildbcd . It comes back with
a "found c:\Windows" use<br>
> Y/N/A.. I click Y and.... errors out.<br>
><br>
> I'm tempted to just install Windows 10
preview. Since I have<br>
> Windows 7,<br>
> it will be a free upgrade. Question is,
can you do a dual-boot with<br>
> Windows 10?? anyone done that??<br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Paul Cartwright<br>
> Registered Linux User #367800 and new
counter #561587<br>
><br>
> __________<br>
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