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Win 7 reinstall issue?
I originally installed WIN 7 onto an eide 250gb drive (upgrade from XP) and all went reasonably well. It's a multi-boot configuration and I used EasyBCD to add the second and third systems (win install image and Ubuntu Linux).
I bought a new 500gb SATA II hd and reinstalled WIN 7 - because I couldn't find an acceptable method of moving the WIN 7 over to the larger drive and didn't want to spend more money on questionable "cloning software" as I've made that mistake before. So, I reinstalled WIN 7 onto the 500gb drive. What I was surprised to discover was that when the install rebooted, it had my multi-system configuration with the new WIN 7 at the top. OK, I thought and let it finish. I used Easy Transfer (somewhat disappointed with that app as it didn't pick up my programs) on the old and new WIN 7's and all was cool. I renamed the new WIN 7 via EasyBCD to WIN 7 SATA to distinguish it from the other...both boot fine (haven't tried linux yet, but I have no reason to believe it won't boot). I decided to try booting directly from the 500gb SATA drive, so when my system restarted I selected the boot menu, hard drives and then the SATA drive. I was a bit surprised to find it wouldn't boot! I'm troubled by this because it was/is my goal to eventually use the original 250gb drive for backups and general storage, but if I wipe it, it would appear I wouldn't have a bootable system anymore.
Does anyone have any ideas about:
1.) why the second install used the original BCD?
2.) how to I "fix" it so the second hdd will boot, without having to disable the
first hdd and perform a "system repair" via the install disk?
Thanks.