Booting from another drive

[speederd]

Hope you guys can help...to make a long story short. I had a failure to my system drive (was my fault). Anyhow the drive was still under warranty so I did an RMA with WD. While waiting for my replacement drive, I reinstalled Win7 to another HD and it is now my system drive. Now that my replacement drive have arrived, I image the other HD and restore to the replacement HD. My question is, how can I have it boot from the replacement HD?

What I did was mark the old HD as inactive and marked the replacement as active but when I boot up, it tells me it cannot find a boot device.

Any suggestions is appreciated.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello speederd, welcome to Seven Forums!





You will need to do a startup repair up to 3 separate times with system restarts between each repair to write new boot files to the new Windows on the new HDD; have a look at the tutorial at the link below for the relevant links and some info.
Be sure to post back with an update.


Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times to Repair Boot Issues

 

[speederd]

Thanks for the quick respond, I will give it a go tonight.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Be sure to post back so we'll know how it went.

 

[gregrocker]

You need to unplug the HD you don't want any longer, then mark Win7 partition Active first before running Startup Repair x3: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71432-partition-mark-active.html

 

[kodi]

Have you set the hard drive you want to boot to as the first hard drive in the bios?
Set the boot order E.g. floppy/dvd/hard drive then set which hard drive you want to boot to first.

 

[SilverStar]

like many said here:

1. Set the new HDD as the first boot device
2. Set the new HDD as active
3. Do the startup repair three times