Partition Windows 7 hard drive and run a full image.

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  1. Posts : 16,161
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       #61

    Seems your machine isn't picking up the usb drive as bootable.

    Check the USB drive mbr and pbr are NT6 using bootice.

    BootIce.zip


    Paul Black said:
    Well I am back home at last, hooray.
    My test machine is a 32-bit running Vista and ONLY has drive C:.
    I unpacked all the files using 7-Zip from the My Boot Media(32-bit) - A23x86 on a NTFS formatted USB.
    I changed the BIOS settings.
    I put the USB in and booted the machine.
    It said checking disk cancelled and then carried on to boot into Vista as normal.
    What have I done wrong please?



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  2. Posts : 6,021
    Win 7 HP SP1 64-bit Vista HB SP2 32-bit Linux Mint 18.3
    Thread Starter
       #62

    OK here is the state of play.

    I thought I would test this out on my test machine before attempting it on my Windows 7 machine.
    I clean installed my Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit and made a system image partition during the clean install.
    I didn't make the system image partition big enough so I created another partition using disk management, formatted it as NTFS and used AOMEI Partition Assistant to merge the two that I had created.
    AOMEI was brilliant for doing this and very easy.
    I run AOMEI Backupper and created Boot Media on USB formatted as NTFS after installing AIK as I didn't have it on my ststem as was prompted to do this by AOMEI.
    I then tried to boot into it and it went straight into Windows as normal.
    Here is the files I have on the USB:






    This is driving me nuts .

    Thanks in advance.

    EDIT: I have got the BIOS to boot from USB.
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  3. Posts : 6,021
    Win 7 HP SP1 64-bit Vista HB SP2 32-bit Linux Mint 18.3
    Thread Starter
       #63

    Not to worry.

    I redid the boot media USB and it worked, very strange.
    I imaged the hard drive leaving the compression rate as the default set by Backupper and produced an image that was 38.50% of the original C: drive.
    I also managd to get your mybootmedia to work SIW2.
    It had partition manger Mini-Tool on it etc, very nice. I couldn't manage however to figure out how the internet connection worked, but I will give that a try later on today.

    Thanks for everything.
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  4. Posts : 16,161
    7 X64
       #64

    I couldn't manage however to figure out how the internet connection worked

    You might need to run penetwork. There is icon on the taskbar
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