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OK - all drives are now back in the machine. Cloned OS volume seems to be running fine from what I can tell.
Below is a screen-grab of my Disk Management window, as requested previously:
- Drive C is my cloned OS volume which I'm booting into.
- Drive Z is my original Windows 7 volume, which I can no longer boot into because of the autochk errors listed ad nauseam above
- Drive L is my old Windows XP volume which I no longer use.
Currently no dual booting is enabled - the system boots into drive C by default.
If anybody had any advice on how to reliably clone Drive C, into the unallocated space on Disk 0 (or even replace the old Win7 volume), and set things up to safely dual-boot I'd be hugely grateful. I'm still unclear on whether the autochk error which prevents me from booting into that volume is a boot issue, or something at an OS level, so I could do with some guidance on how to make that partition safely bootable again. I still need a second Windows 7 partition for some software testing I've been asked to do, but I need to be sure I can create a clone and not have the boot issues detailed in this thread.
Thanks again to all for the help.
Jules