Moving Win7 Partition to Another Drive

the answer to Traceys problem given by siw2 worked like a charm for me. I used rescue kit by Paragon software to revive my windows7. The whole scenario was quite different in my case, Initially, i had xp in C: (~20gb) and windows 7 in I: (~30gb) plus some unallocated space of 25gb(which i got by deleting linux). with the help of GParted(on live cd) i extended C: from 20 to 25gb & I: from 30 to 50gb. Meanwhile my drive letter got changed (i.e.I: got names as G: ). It took me hell(bootcfg) to get xp back running. I used EasyBCD to rewrite boot manager. i gave proper location of win7 there. This time though i loaded from windows boot manager, windows7 gave error that it is not genuine and aero theme was also missing and worst of it that i was not allowed to even access my computer. Then i came to know about something called primary,extended & logical partition. unfortunately what now i was seeing is that my windows7 was on logical partition and even i read that you cannot put system on logical partition, it has to be on primary partition. Later only i figured out that boot manager allows to boot from logical partition. Yeppie, i was saved from whole task of reformatting my win7 drive. So, then i went ahead with creating rescue disk and correcting the whole turmoil of drive letters which my asinine partitioning(they call it extending) of drives. when i looked into the drive letters which win7 was seeing, i realized what chaos i created in there. I corrected it and with some ignorable warnings of counterfeiting of windows i managed to make win7 stand on its feet. The whole credit goes to your team and prompt solution you came up with.

Be aware that you can also convert Logical to Primary quickly and easily using Partition Wizard bootable CD Modify>Convert to Primary. You can then Modify>Mark as Active and recover the MBR into Win7 by booting Win7 DVD Repair or Repair CD to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots until 7 starts.

Paragon Rescue Disk is a must-have tool to rescue a partition, drive letter, or files you can copy off a partition which will not start after the regimen given above.

These are free new-generation tools which work best with Win7, proven hundreds of times here since it's release.

Did you try this?

Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery

Ignore the title - it may help in your situatiion.

You are best trying a partition recovery app.

free one here Partition Wizard Bootable CD allows user to boot computer directly to manage partition.

Select partition recovery - do a quick scan of the Disk - tick ALL partitions you want to keep ( include the 100mb )

Click Apply.

Do the partition recovery as per my previous post.

To make sure it updates system info - shrink your windows partition a little and Apply.