On 25/03/2012 22:17, [email protected] wrote:
> I may have used the term "geometry" too loosely, but the impression I
> got was that at least the partition sizes had to be the same. But your
> experience suggests that they can actually be larger, which might make
> it easier for me. I will be doing this test soon.
>
> Bill, do you have experience with restoring Windows 7? I was thinking I
> should make 2 partitions on the smaller destination drive that were
> clearly larger than the 2 partitions on my source drive, then try to
> restore that way and see if I still have problems. This is something I
> haven't tried yet, and it seems to be working well for you. I honestly
> don't care if Windows 7's boot partition is 100 MiB or 150 MiB, as long
> as everything else works properly; unless there's a reason for the exact
> size.
>
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I don't know if this would make your task easier, but you can do away
completely with the W7 first "boot" partition. In your W7 system open a
console ("powershell" or such) and type:
bcdboot C:\windows /v /s C:
This is assuming your system drive is C: (W7 default). To see available
options and help use:
bcdboot C:\windows /?
Once done you can use W7 disk manager to set the "boot" flag on the main
partition, at this point you don't need the first partition to boot
Windows. You can then proceed to clone only the main partition. I do
that to clone W7 install to disks with few primary partitions available
(dual-boots), and especially to convert W7 systems to vmware machines
(vmware converter tool often fails to handle the "boot" partition properly).
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