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disk offline due to signature collision
I cloned my existing hd to a larger size in case the first drive failed. Both drives work when installed alone. When either is used as a secondary external , attachment by usb, the ext is not recognized and gives the signature conflict in disk management. disk part shows they have identical signatures and if I change the id or right click to change offline to online, the disk will be read as a secondary drive. But, the new sig makes it unbootable as a primary drive, defeating the purpose of creating the clone. My question is, if the sig has been changed so that the drive is not bootable, and I no longer have the first drive to see what the sig should be, is there a program that will find and correct the sig to make the drive bootable again? Is it possible to do a system repair or boot repair from a win 7 disk to fix this?