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

[SIW2]

what do you mean "wont boot"

any messages ?

 

[Danny S]

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.

 

[SIW2]

needs nt6 mbr and the windows partition marked active

:ar: View attachment 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

:ar: View attachment BCDBOOTDISKv28x64.zip

 

[Danny S]

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.

 

[SIW2]