DaveyDualBoot
New Member
Hi,
Hopefully someone will be able to help me out of what might seem like a complete mess.
A dual-boot Win7 and Win10 machine, each OS is on a separate SSD. All has worked fine since January 2020 - the point when Win 7 support stopped, and it became necessary to start using Win10 for any online stuff.
I've just reached a point where my 240GB Win10 SSD is on the small side, so have purchased a new 1TB replacement. Unfortunately, both Acronis True Image and Macrium Reflect create a clone of my original which fails to boot - indeed isn't even recognised as a system disc. (I can't understand why...!)
Delving further, it appears that, unbeknownst to me, EasyBCD is actually booting from my E drive...! (which I thought was data only!) I've not a clue how that happened, but it is what it is. And there are absolutely no visible signs of boot files anywhere on the E drive!
Somehow I need to get the EasyBCD boot details off my E drive, and onto my C drive. Then there may be a chance that a clone of that C drive will work.
Any help/advice will be massively appreciated!
Cheers,
Dave
PS Two things I should add to the above - firstly I can confirm that even with the original C drive SSD in place, it won't boot UNLESS the E Drive is installed. Which makes sense when you look at the EasyBCD screenshot.
And secondly, that screenshot was taken when the Win7 drive had been temporarily disconnected - hence 'Device Unknown' for the Win7 Boot Loader.
Hopefully someone will be able to help me out of what might seem like a complete mess.
A dual-boot Win7 and Win10 machine, each OS is on a separate SSD. All has worked fine since January 2020 - the point when Win 7 support stopped, and it became necessary to start using Win10 for any online stuff.
I've just reached a point where my 240GB Win10 SSD is on the small side, so have purchased a new 1TB replacement. Unfortunately, both Acronis True Image and Macrium Reflect create a clone of my original which fails to boot - indeed isn't even recognised as a system disc. (I can't understand why...!)
Delving further, it appears that, unbeknownst to me, EasyBCD is actually booting from my E drive...! (which I thought was data only!) I've not a clue how that happened, but it is what it is. And there are absolutely no visible signs of boot files anywhere on the E drive!
Somehow I need to get the EasyBCD boot details off my E drive, and onto my C drive. Then there may be a chance that a clone of that C drive will work.
Any help/advice will be massively appreciated!
Cheers,
Dave
PS Two things I should add to the above - firstly I can confirm that even with the original C drive SSD in place, it won't boot UNLESS the E Drive is installed. Which makes sense when you look at the EasyBCD screenshot.
And secondly, that screenshot was taken when the Win7 drive had been temporarily disconnected - hence 'Device Unknown' for the Win7 Boot Loader.
