Cloned Drive with Windows 7

[nvteleskier]

I installed W7 on my D: drive and it was only 80GB, and had everything running to my satisfaction. Started adding a few programs from my Vista install and thought the drive was to small, so cloned the drive unto a backup drive and installed a 1TB drive. Cloned the image back unto the new drive, but when I try to dual boot, it doesn't see W7. I tried booting from the W7 disk, to do a startup repair, but it doesn't see W7 installed on the new drive.

Any ideas?

 

[SIW2]

Can you post a screenshot of Disk Management?

 

[nvteleskier]

Here it is! Windows 7 is on Disk 0. Vista on Disk 1.

 

[SIW2]

You are booting thru Disk 2, E - what is on there?

Which is the first 7 install and which is the cloned one?

FYI the full window can be shown by going to View>Customize and unticking Console Tree and Action pane.

 

[nvteleskier]

The L drive is actually 500GB usb 2 drive that I used to clone the drive I had W7 installed on. Disk 1 has Vista 64, which I'm using currently. I noticed that the 1TB disk says SATA80GB?

 

[SIW2]

When you say you installed the 1TB drive, did you initialize and partition it?

 

[nvteleskier]

I did, before I cloned from the usb drive.

 

[SIW2]

A cloning app. - a decent one anyway, would give you the option to increase the clone to the size of the target drive - you can always shrink the free space afterwards.

Looks like the partition table - showing one 80gb partition was cloned back as well.

That's why the o/s thinks that's all there is.

You will notice both L and E are showing as 80gb.

I would use my Paragon program to correct the table.

Don't think Diskpart would do it.

You may need to boot the 7 dvd, start the install, go to drive options(advanced) and delete then reformat the remaining space.

Then abort the installation.

 

[nvteleskier]

I have Paragon Partition Manager and it shows that the drive is indeed 900+GB. All of the Windows files are there.

I guess I'll just have to re-install, not exactly what I wanted to do.

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

Try using Paragon to perform a partitioning operation on that drive - anything you like, create and format a partition out of the unallocated space .

You may find it updates the o/s partition table for you.

 

[nvteleskier]

Hi,

Try using Paragon to perform a partitioning operation on that drive - anything you like, create and format a partition out of the unallocated space .

You may find it updates the o/s partition table for you.

SiW2,
Thanks a million for your help. I'm currently out of town on business and haven't had a chance to reply. I tried using Paragon to repartition the drive, but it doesn't work with a 64 bit OS. So, I downloaded a new W7, installed it on the previous W7 disk and it runs great. A few problems: it doesn't dual boot with my Vista 64 and when I was in W7, I tried to use Windows Easy Transfer, which I had used to create a transfer file in Vista to a spare external drive. When I try to transfer to W7 disk, W7 tells me there is not enough space on the drive. It's a 1TB drive and shows as a 900+GB partition in disk management.

When I have a chance, I'll try reformatting the disk and doing a new install.
Thanks again,
nvteleskier

 

[johngalt]

I installed W7 on my D: drive and it was only 80GB, and had everything running to my satisfaction. Started adding a few programs from my Vista install and thought the drive was to small, so cloned the drive unto a backup drive and installed a 1TB drive. Cloned the image back unto the new drive, but when I try to dual boot, it doesn't see W7. I tried booting from the W7 disk, to do a startup repair, but it doesn't see W7 installed on the new drive.

Any ideas?

Ummm....

When you cloned the original 80 GB drive you only cloned the 'System' (aka boot) partition, not the 'boot' (aka System) partition that is usually around 100 MB in size....

Also, if you'll look at my setup:

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You'll see me using a 60 GB partition - which I have yet to exceed, in terms of space.

Plus, my Tablet PC laptop has only an 80GB HD to begin with.

You;'ll be hard pressed to fill that up unless you do a boatload of large file downloading....