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fix boot on cloned win 7 HDD on SSD
i just bought a new laptop (lenovo ideapad3) w ssd and windows 11. im trying to clone several partitions with different windows versions (windows 7 on a couple) from the harddrive on my old work laptop into the single ssd of the new laptop by creating new partitions and then cloning each partition using easeus. I should add i need all the new partitions to be bootable separately.
the problem i have now is fixing the boot sequence on the cloned partition.
Everytime i boot the cloned windows 7 partition i get the winload.efi not found/missing. i tried repairing the boot via command prompt by using a windows 11 usb but no luck. i tried making a win 7 bootable usb but have not bee able to boot into it without it crashing at the windows logo (apparently there is an issue with win7 booting on uefi and gpt based drive).
at this point i dont know what else to try.
any help would be much appreciated
Last edited by sjuliani; 02 Aug 2023 at 10:58.