CWBillow
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I run a Windows 7 Ultimate main O/S. On that I have VMware Workstation. For some reason, unbeknownst to both me and Epson, my scanner won't work when VMware is installed.
So...
I set up an XP partition to use just for scanning. Somehow, I got the mult-boot set up so that it works.
So I wanted to have just a vanilla Windows 7 setup alongside the XP setup, so that if anything ever crashed or hardware changed etc., I would have a plain Jane setup to restore.
But, when I tried to restore just the Windows 7 partition, I could NOT get it to work and keep the multi-boot properties. If I just rested the '7' partition, it wouldn't boot into EasyBCD. If I restored the MBR, then the XP stops working. So I went all the way back to the beginning to see if I could start with a claen disk and get the two working. Could NOT seem to get that toi work either.
So, thank goodness, I had made a backup after I first got EasyBCD working, and the restoration of that works fine.
But what if I needed to restore just one of the partitions and wanted the other(s)cess?
What am I doing wrong here, and how do I fix it?
Chuck Billow
So...
I set up an XP partition to use just for scanning. Somehow, I got the mult-boot set up so that it works.
So I wanted to have just a vanilla Windows 7 setup alongside the XP setup, so that if anything ever crashed or hardware changed etc., I would have a plain Jane setup to restore.
But, when I tried to restore just the Windows 7 partition, I could NOT get it to work and keep the multi-boot properties. If I just rested the '7' partition, it wouldn't boot into EasyBCD. If I restored the MBR, then the XP stops working. So I went all the way back to the beginning to see if I could start with a claen disk and get the two working. Could NOT seem to get that toi work either.
So, thank goodness, I had made a backup after I first got EasyBCD working, and the restoration of that works fine.
But what if I needed to restore just one of the partitions and wanted the other(s)cess?
What am I doing wrong here, and how do I fix it?
Chuck Billow