On 03/25/2012 04:43 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
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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).
>
I appreciate this!
I never have understood this: I have run across Windows 7 installations
that had only one partition, but most (including the ones I have done
from scratch) usually have that 100MB NTFS boot partition. WHY? I
guess it's because some system BIOS's cannot boot when the kernel is too
high up in the disk geometry or something?
Anyway, I'm glad to know that there is a way around this. Never ran
across this before.
-Bill-
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Bill Gurley, Technical Director
Department of Chemistry
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
865-974-3145 (office)
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