Cloning Windows 7 Boot Camp Drive
First of all, I've read tons of threads and there is so much information that none of them have helped me directly, so I'm going to try and be specific and ask what I need help with.
I've cloned my Mac OS X drive before when upgrading hard drives, I used CCC and it was easy peasy. Copy data from A to B, remove A, start up B, DONE.
Trying to clone my boot camp drive has been a nightmare and none of it is making sense. I used Norton GHOST to clone my hard drive, I read that you can use that to do clones. So I did that, rebooted and help option to boot from my new drive. Windows 7 says it was not a legit copy. So I did some more reading, and people said it was because the registry is seeing the new drive as F and not C so the registry needed to be changed. I tried to access the registry via task manager (Since when in that mode it doesn't let you do anything) but it didn't exist. So THEN I tried using Paragon Repair Kit Express to try and use it's Boot Loader feature to change the drive letter. It was unavailable and wouldn't let me do it!
So then I tried using EASEUS instead to clone my drive. Went fine. Except now when I hold option to reboot, it is not available to choose even though when I start windows, I see it as drive F:.
I literally just installed Windows 7 and it was a pain in the ***, and cloning has become just as much of a pain in the ***.
I would love your help but I am not looking for "Just do a clean install," That's the obvious option but cloning should not be this difficult either. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Something I can do to just make this drive bootable? (The partition is there, the data is there, it's just not shown as bootable). Is there a tool I don't know of that can make an easy clone of a bootcamp drive and make it bootable? I heard of Winclone but it is not W7 compatible and has been discontinued, sorry but I don't trust that.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks so much!
I've cloned my Mac OS X drive before when upgrading hard drives, I used CCC and it was easy peasy. Copy data from A to B, remove A, start up B, DONE.
Trying to clone my boot camp drive has been a nightmare and none of it is making sense. I used Norton GHOST to clone my hard drive, I read that you can use that to do clones. So I did that, rebooted and help option to boot from my new drive. Windows 7 says it was not a legit copy. So I did some more reading, and people said it was because the registry is seeing the new drive as F and not C so the registry needed to be changed. I tried to access the registry via task manager (Since when in that mode it doesn't let you do anything) but it didn't exist. So THEN I tried using Paragon Repair Kit Express to try and use it's Boot Loader feature to change the drive letter. It was unavailable and wouldn't let me do it!
So then I tried using EASEUS instead to clone my drive. Went fine. Except now when I hold option to reboot, it is not available to choose even though when I start windows, I see it as drive F:.
I literally just installed Windows 7 and it was a pain in the ***, and cloning has become just as much of a pain in the ***.
I would love your help but I am not looking for "Just do a clean install," That's the obvious option but cloning should not be this difficult either. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Something I can do to just make this drive bootable? (The partition is there, the data is there, it's just not shown as bootable). Is there a tool I don't know of that can make an easy clone of a bootcamp drive and make it bootable? I heard of Winclone but it is not W7 compatible and has been discontinued, sorry but I don't trust that.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks so much!
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
