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How to clone partition E: alone to boot from a new drive?
My current HDD holds:
Primary NTFS Partition C: running XP.
Logical NTFS Partition E: running Windows 7.
Remains of a couple of Dell's recovery partitions – primary FAT16 & FAT32.
I would like to transfer only partition E: to a new SSD. And Keep the letter E: on the new drive, for it to work.
I have enough space for it alone. I do not wish to reinstall at this point.
I tried cloning the partition using Clonezilla Live and EASEUS Partition Master, however I can't get it to boot as drive E: - neither as a single drive, nor together with the old drive. I tried adding dummy partitions; I tried EasyBCD to change the partition to E: ; I tried rebuilding the MBR; I tried DiskPart, but still could only get the partition to boot as either C: or D:.
In Fdisk-compatible or even in the Win7's Setup DVD recovery console, it may show up as E:, but still boot Windows as D: or C:. It would boot to a barely working "non genuine" windows 7, with most links still pointing to E:. Win7's setup disc would not fix anymore after this, because it claims that Windows did boot the last time.
How can I force my Windows 7 partition to boot as E: from the new drive?
If possible, then I would like to still be able to boot to C: on the old drive.
Thanks in advance for any help or ideas!