Backup windows 7 from 3TB to 6TB help

Meridiusuk · 4 Jul 2016 at 23:38

Hi all

I have had a 3TB boot drive of windows 7 pro for over 2 years as I am using a asus UFEI supported motherboard. I have the drive partitioned into a 100gb and the rest in another partition.

I used windows 7 pro backup image creator and wanted to install window backup on the new 6tb drive but I am having lots of problems as when I run the recovery disk it says windows is not supported or something.

I formatted the drive into 100gb and the rest into another partition and I have even ran the windows 7 install dive but when I select that partition it just says can not be installed on that drive

all I want to do is make an image of the drive well the 100gb partition and put it onto the 6tb drive and get the extra space.

I just can not figure out what I am doing wrong here. can anyone help

thanks

KIA · 5 Jul 2016 at 17:05

Macrium Reflect.

Meridiusuk · 5 Jul 2016 at 19:07

how do you install windows 7 as a boot drive on a 6tb with a 100gb partition. I did this on my 3tb drive but I just can not for the love of money figure out how I did it.

in the bios there are two cdrom drives but only one with uefi option so I put the uefi cdrom as the first boot and then the 6tb drive as the 2nd boot and which the drive is in a GPT format as one partition.

when I run windows 7 install I select that drive out of the list of my others and partition it as a 100gb drive but then windows decides to partition the rest of the drive into another two parts so there is now three partitions.

I don't want that so I put the drive in another computer to run disk manager and I can do nothing to the other partitions apart from format them.

jesus all I want is a 6tb to be in two partitions one 100gb and the other as 5.5tb I did this ok on a 3tb but I just can not seem to figure out why its so hard to do on a 6tb drive

any thoughts on this ?

motherboard is Asus P8Z77-V Pro

Orcvader · 5 Jul 2016 at 19:46

Meridiusuk said:
how do you install windows 7 as a boot drive on a 6tb with a 100gb partition. I did this on my 3tb drive but I just can not for the love of money figure out how I did it.

in the bios there are two cdrom drives but only one with uefi option so I put the uefi cdrom as the first boot and then the 6tb drive as the 2nd boot and which the drive is in a GPT format as one partition.

when I run windows 7 install I select that drive out of the list of my others and partition it as a 100gb drive but then windows decides to partition the rest of the drive into another two parts so there is now three partitions.

I don't want that so I put the drive in another computer to run disk manager and I can do nothing to the other partitions apart from format them.

jesus all I want is a 6tb to be in two partitions one 100gb and the other as 5.5tb I did this ok on a 3tb but I just can not seem to figure out why its so hard to do on a 6tb drive

any thoughts on this ?

motherboard is Asus P8Z77-V Pro

EDIT: Reread it properly, got a screenshot? I take it the 100mb-500mb system reserved partition is still hidden when viewed under Winmdows Explorer?

Meridiusuk · 7 Jul 2016 at 22:22

I gave up just left the 3 tb as the boot drive and added the 6 as the other drive, in the future I might just use a ssd for a boot drive and by a sata pci card since I have used all my onboard motherboard sata plugs for other drives.

it should be esier than this to use a 6tb drive as a boot drive. I mena I can use it as a boot drive but I just can not get it to partition right.

wanted it as a
100gb and then the rest as a 5.5tb

but no it gave me 100gb 2.5tb and 3.0tb so that's three partitions.

my 3tb is

100mb + UEFI boot + 100gb + 2.5tb

the only thing I can think of is to install windows using the full 5.7tb space then when windows is installed shrink the drive c down to 100gb and then the unused partition make it as a full 5.5tb, I just can not remember if I did the same on the 3tb.