For years now, I've been using Casper from Future Systems Solutions to make system drive backups for my 32 bit system. I could take the new copy and plug it into the system in place of the existing bootable hard drive and it booted and ran just fine. Recently I upgraded to Win 7 64 bit when I built a new system but for some reason, my new system drive copy is not bootable. If I use Disk Management to look at the drives, I see the drive that DOES boot says: Healty (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition). The new copy that does NOT boot says: Healthy (Primary partition) and it won't boot. I believe that there's actually a separate boot partition in a 64 bit system, but I'll be darned if I can find anything describing how you might create it. When preparing a new drive to receive a copy of the system which is to be bootable, what should I be doing that I missed?
Since Disk Management doesn't show the boot partitions, I don't know if it's actually there or not.
I used to use Casper .. Then I moved up to Acronis when Casper had problems.
You can install W7 to a formatted HDD and the reserved partition will not be created.
You can Clone or Image just the C Partition to a new HDD with Acronis .. Then fix the booting problem with a System Repair CD
If you use Western Digital HDDs .. Acronis is Free
Hi Dave. Well, I downloaded Bootice, but just don't see how to use that to fix my problem. This is a UEFI system, which I guess makes a big difference in the boot stuff, but I'm just not well enough versed in that to know what to do.
Noyb - maybe you can tell me the best approach to fix what I have. At present, in addition to the running system, I have a Casper backup of that system on a Western Digital drive. That drive won't boot - blue screen of death, same as a couple of other drives I've copied. Do you think I could use Acronis to add whatever boot info is needed on that drive without destroying the rest of the copy? This is a UEFI system, and I guess that makes a difference in how the boot stuff works.
If you restore from an Acronis Image .. You also have a choice where (which HD) to put the MBR
I don't remember Casper or have ever worked with UEFI
I never install Acronis (or leave it installed) but always work from the Acroins Boot CD with only one HDD installed
Early in W7s life .. The W7 system reserved partition caused me problems when working with Acronis Images ... Removing It is a habit now.
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