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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I just booted the original drive. it
shows ( left to right in diskmgmt):<br>
Dellutility Partition 1 41MB Fat<br>
Recovery Partition 2 15GB NTFS shows partition type HPFS/NTFS
(Bootable)<br>
OS Partition 3 817GB NTFS<br>
then an extended partition with swap, home2, and another partition<br>
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I mounted the Recovery partition and I am copying all the files
over to my HD.. maybe I can make a bootable CD with that, &
restore windows to the new drive..<br>
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<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>
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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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2015 at 1:31 PM, Paul Cartwright <span
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style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">the 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>
<span><br>
> 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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
><br>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:29 AM,
Paul Cartwright<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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