Hi, I have a dual boot PC with 2 partitions C:\ win 7 64 D:\ win 7 32 There is no System reserved partition so I think the "windows boot loader" is on the first partition (win 7 64) I want to copy the win 7 32 partition to a new hard drive with acronis boot CD but I suspect this will not be bootable ? Is there a way to copy just the win 7 32 bit partition to a new drive and make the PC boot from this ? Thanks
The times I've used Acronis True Image Home 2010 (bootable CD) to image a drive, it's always worked. Why not just try it and see? You can always wipe the new drive and get back to a blank slate if it doesn't do what you want. It's been a while since I used ATIH but I think you can choose the partitions you want to image. If you have to activate the new installation, that's a no-brainer.
I think you have to make an image first with a GParted live CD. Then install the partition with Acronis to make it work on your new PC and/or disk. Hope this helps ^^
GPartEd will create partitions on a drive. That's what it is: Gnome Partition Editor. Once you create the partition with GPartEd, you can restore an image made with imaging software. Acronis True Image is one such software package; there are others including the one built into Windows Vista, 7 and 8. Later versions of GPartEd may include imaging software. I haven't kept up with its development for several years.
Ok here's a summary of what I've done so far 1. Grab YUMI from pendrivelinux 2. Install YUMI to my usb and "try unlisted ISO" : browse to acronis-2013-16-6514.iso 3. Boot PC, press F12, select USB to boot acronis 4. Do backup of win 7 32 bit 30GB partition to usb drive Results: 30GB partition (of which 15 GB was used) backed up to a nicely compressed 4.7GB .tib file Impressed with the speed: just 2 minutes 4 seconds (count 'em!) for acronis to do its thing ! Next step is to try and get that backup onto a new drive and boot it.
if it dont boot.. its easy litteraly easybcd 2.2 from neosmart.net add second and done. (might have to select drive) altho win7 repair startup should detect second windows drive
Can't get the thing to boot Here's what I did: Put new drive in PC (removed original for safety) Booted into acronis then: add new disk create active partition recover disk ticked just the NTFS partition (not MBR and track 0) select my new disk as partition location reboot and get error: "MBR Error 3" so booted back into acronis and tried recover disk again but this time ticked "NTFS partition" and "MBR and track 0" reboot and get error: "Bootmgr is missing" boot from win 7 DVD, and let it do a startup repair, finds probs and fixes them but on reboot same error "Bootmgr is missing" boot from win 7 DVD and enter those 3 commands Mr Jinje above same error "Bootmgr is missing" boot from win 7 DVD and enter all 4 commands Mr Jinje above the all say success reboot but still get error: "Bootmgr is missing" not sure what I've done wrong ?
primary sata port 0 disk is the boot (folder) rest just boot from that so if youre trying to fix the bootsector of another hdd whats the point.. main disk boots those second disks. is the disk 4k sectors ? might have advanced format
Ok so I did a bit of reading about all this boot stuff. Here's what I found out: Windows 7 uses a "BCD store" to boot from. Often this is located on a small 100MB hidden partition which is always the first on the disk. In my case I did not have this partition: my first partition had win 7 64 and my second partition had win 7 32. For me the bootmgr hidden file and the boot folder which contains the BCD file were on the first partition. I backed up the second partition and restored this to a new disk so my new disk did not get the BCD store. I would have hoped acronis would have sorted this out but obviously not. So the fix must be to recreate the BCD store Useful sites I came across include MS kb 927392 pcsupport.about.com "How To Fix BOOTMGR is Missing Errors" pcsupport.about.com "Master Boot Record (MBR)" www pagestart com "How to Dual Boot Windows 7 32-Bit with Windows 7 64-Bit" Also on the acronis forums people have had success with the command bcdboot.exe C:\Windows /s C: Was going to try using bcdedit and/or bcdboot but thought I'd let windows do one last "system repair" first. And what do you know it booted up ok! There are quite a few posts with people saying "system repair" needs to be run 3 times!!! Hope this helps someone else