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windows 7/vista multiboot questions
Hi everybody,
First I want to mention how impressed I am by the wealth of info and the knowledgeable people in these forums. I have been reading for several hours and I tried a few things but I thought I will create a thread with my specific details.
I have a desktop running Windows 7 (64bit)/Vista 32bit/Vista 64 bit. (all ultimate edition). Windows 7 and Vista 64 share one drive and the Vista 32 has part of another drive. I have purchased a SSD drive and I would like to move the windows 7 partition to the SSD drive and eventually get rid of the existing windows 7 partition. The vista install can stay there as i rarely used them I mostly use windows 7.
I read on the forums here and I know the ideal situation is to do a clean install on a separate drive with bios boot but I have my Win 7 all nicely set and I would rather not start over.
I have a piece of software called Active Disk image that can clone a drive/partition. so what I did a cloned the Win7 partition to the SSD drive. I read around and saw the method that it was higly suggested set the new SSD drive as active and reboot with the Win 7 cd and do a start up repair. Well I went ahead and used easyBCD and added the new disk to the start menu then I rebooted through my Win7 cd and did a startup repair. Well the start up repair is being going on for like an hour and it is still saying attempting repairs. Does it usually take a long time?
Any ideas or input will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Nick