I'll start by saying that I'm sure I'm missing something very obvious, so any help is welcome!
Until today, one of my PCs had:
A 320Gb HDD with Windows XP on it;
A 1Tb HDD with Windows 7 on it.
The PC is set up to dual boot.
I have now added a 2Tb Seagate SSHD to the mix.
What I want to do is clone the Windows 7 installation to the 2Tb SSHD and then upgrade it to Windows 10. I no longer need the dual boot to XP.
I used Seagate DiscWizard to clone the drive, unplugged the 1Tb HDD, set the 2Tb SSHD first in the boot priority list, and it wouldn't boot.
Without really knowing what I was doing, I plugged all the drives back in, got to Windows 7, and used bcdboot to copy the boot files to the 2Tb SSHD (sitting as E: at this point).
I then shut down, unplugged the 1Tb HDD, set the 2Tb SSHD to first in the boot priority list, and got an error message telling me winload.exe was missing or corrupt.
Still not knowing what I was doing, I found EasyBCD, changed the boot drive to E:, shut down, unplugged the 1Tb HDD, etc, got an error message telling me a device was unavailable.
As far as I can see there is nothing wrong with the 2Tb SSHD. I just don't know how to boot from it.
There's one other complication - the PC in question doesn't have an optical drive so I can't use the Windows 7 disc to try a repair. It DID have an optical drive back in 2009 or 2010 when I installed Windows 7 on it, but I've since changed the motherboard and it doesn't have a PATA connector for my old DVD drive.
I really don't want to format the PC and install Windows 10 from scratch.
As I said I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. The last time I cloned a boot drive was years ago with MaxBlast, and it just worked. Of course, that wasn't a dual boot install.
Any help gratefully received!
Until today, one of my PCs had:
A 320Gb HDD with Windows XP on it;
A 1Tb HDD with Windows 7 on it.
The PC is set up to dual boot.
I have now added a 2Tb Seagate SSHD to the mix.
What I want to do is clone the Windows 7 installation to the 2Tb SSHD and then upgrade it to Windows 10. I no longer need the dual boot to XP.
I used Seagate DiscWizard to clone the drive, unplugged the 1Tb HDD, set the 2Tb SSHD first in the boot priority list, and it wouldn't boot.
Without really knowing what I was doing, I plugged all the drives back in, got to Windows 7, and used bcdboot to copy the boot files to the 2Tb SSHD (sitting as E: at this point).
I then shut down, unplugged the 1Tb HDD, set the 2Tb SSHD to first in the boot priority list, and got an error message telling me winload.exe was missing or corrupt.
Still not knowing what I was doing, I found EasyBCD, changed the boot drive to E:, shut down, unplugged the 1Tb HDD, etc, got an error message telling me a device was unavailable.
As far as I can see there is nothing wrong with the 2Tb SSHD. I just don't know how to boot from it.
There's one other complication - the PC in question doesn't have an optical drive so I can't use the Windows 7 disc to try a repair. It DID have an optical drive back in 2009 or 2010 when I installed Windows 7 on it, but I've since changed the motherboard and it doesn't have a PATA connector for my old DVD drive.
I really don't want to format the PC and install Windows 10 from scratch.
As I said I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. The last time I cloned a boot drive was years ago with MaxBlast, and it just worked. Of course, that wasn't a dual boot install.
Any help gratefully received!