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Cloning win7 partition to another disk
I want to clone my existing windows 7 partition (System reserved and C: partition) from 32G SSD to 500G Harddisk.
On SSD: the partition looks like this:
|System Reserved 100M | Win 7 C: Partition|
I can clone the image successfully if i clone it to the first partition of my HDD., i.e
|System Reserved 100M | Win 7 C: Partition| extended partition|, the first two partitions are cloned of SSD.
But now, i want to use a third party boot loader (XOSL) on my HDD to boot windows 7 on HDD and SSD. So I want my HDD partitions look like below:
|400 M XOSL boot loader| Win7 System reserved 100M | C: Win7 main partition|
My XOSL boot loader failed to boot up win 7. There is no issue on XOSL as it can boot the SSD above by pointing it to the System reserved 100M partition. It just unable to boot the cloned Win7 image from SSD to the HDD partitions as outlined above although it is also pointing to the same System Reserved 100M partition on the HDD.
I believe there is something i am missing here. When the win7 is cloned to a partition other than the first partition, how does a boot loader boot load it? What i need to do?