Can't clone my OS to a smaller drive with Disk Genius or Hasleo.

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    what do you mean "wont boot"

    any messages ?
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  2. Posts : 30
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    Thread Starter
       #22

    No messages. It just skips the drive and goes to the next one in the boot order. This is after manually and specifically selecting the flash drive from the boot menu.
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       #23

    needs nt6 mbr and the windows partition marked active

    BOOTICE-1.3.3.zip

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    Then you will need to create the boot critical files on the usbstick windows partition ( presumably the original are in the system reserved partition on the source disk )

    It is quite easy just one command from admin cmd propmt

    bcdboot usbletter:\windows /s usbletter:

    e.g.

    bcdboot f:\windows /s f:

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    In case you need to fix the osletter you can use the little thing wot I made

    BCDBOOTDISKv28x64.zip

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  4. Posts : 30
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       #24

    Wow! Thank you so much!

    I've completed the steps up to and including the cmd prompt "bcdboot I:\windows /s I:" (see results in pic below). But it'll be sometime later before I go through trouble to shut down my computer and try booting from the flash drive. But I look forward to trying.

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    To SIW2,

    Ok, it seems to have worked!

    Again, thank you so much!

    And I went ahead and downloaded the BDCBOOTDISK program along with the helpful screenshots for keepsakes.
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