Windows 7 not booting after hdd swap

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Windows 7 not booting after hdd swap

My problem is that I cannot get windows to boot after swapping my hard drives to a new machine. I had a 2010 MacBook Pro 15" with a 512 gb SSD with only OSX and a 750 gb HDD with a 250 gb partition for Windows and a 500 gb partition for storage(Formatted with Mac OS Extended) installed in the superdrive slot. Everything was working fine in the 2010 model but when I moved it over to the 2012 MacBook Pro 15" it will not boot. I have had a few different errors such as "Operating System not found" and the most recent is "No Bootable Device Found." I have also tried making a repair disk and tried using it multiple times with different errors each time. Now when I boot to that it just says "This version of System Recovery is not compatible with the version of Windows you are trying to repair" even though its the same bootable usb I used other times and it loaded fine.

The kicker is that it loads just fine in Parallels and all my files are visible from OSX but it will not boot natively to Windows. Which is what I need to be able to use the full power of the graphics card. I will also note that I used the instructions here http://twocanoes.com/support/winclone/migrating-a-bootcamp-partition-with-winclo ne so that I could install the bootcamp drivers for the 2012 model.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

I should also mention that during the process of all this I deleted an extra partition on the HDD that I was not using named 10.10 Test. It was already broken and I was trying to eliminate anything extra that I was not using.

Oh and maybe this will help too:

nicholas-macbook-pro:~ nicholas$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *512.1 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh SSD 511.3 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk1

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_HFS Storage 500.0 GB disk1s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 249.8 GB disk1s3

/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *16.2 GB disk2

1: Windows_FAT_32 NO NAME 16.2 GB disk2s1

nicholas-macbook-pro:~ nicholas$ sudo gdisk /dev/disk1

Password:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Partition table scan:

MBR: hybrid

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): p

Disk /dev/disk1: 1465149168 sectors, 698.6 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): 1E40793B-35DF-4A7C-B23B-BBDF9D33F7ED

Partition table holds up to 128 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1465149134

Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries

Total free space is 263893 sectors (128.9 MiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name

1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition

2 409640 976965631 465.7 GiB AF00 Storage

3 977227776 1465147391 232.7 GiB 0700 WINDOWS

Command (? for help):

nicholas-macbook-pro:~ nicholas$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk1

Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 976555992] HFS+

*3: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 977227776 - 487919616] HPFS/QNX/AUX

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

nicholas-macbook-pro:~ nicholas$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 1465149167

start size index contents

0 1 MBR

1 1 Pri GPT header

2 32 Pri GPT table

34 6

40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

409640 976555992 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

976965632 262144

977227776 487919616 3 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

1465147392 1743

1465149135 32 Sec GPT table

1465149167 1 Sec GPT header

nicholas-macbook-pro:~ nicholas$

Posted on Jul 10, 2014 1:47 PM

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Answer 1

Loner T

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Jul 10, 2014 2:31 PM in response to NikkuShouri

If you power up the MBP and hold the ALT key, does Windows show up as a bootable option? Parallels does not need and use the Bootcamp boot. Does the Bootcamp partition show up in Startup Disk as an option?

Windows is fussy about HW changes. Is the HDD with Bootcamp installed in the Optical slot, similar to the 2010 MBP?

If you have Winclone, do you also have the original Winclone image from the 2010 MBP? If yes, have you tried a Winclone restore/migration to the 2012 MBP.

A screen shot of the System Profiler (without personal information/serial numbers) may be helpful as well.

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Jul 10, 2014 2:51 PM in response to Loner T

Yes Bootcamp does show up but when I select it I just get a black screen that says "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key."

However it does not show up in Startup Disk in System Preferences.

Yes everything is installed just like it was in the 2010 model. The HDD is in the optical bay.

I did not use Winclone because I was not switching to a new hard drive. I just followed those instructions so that the bootcamp drivers would not be an issue.

Is there anything else in particular you need from the system info?

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Loner T

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Jul 10, 2014 2:57 PM in response to NikkuShouri

Apologies, I was going to update my post to ask for SATA information in System Profiler.

Do you have any third-party NTFS drivers, like Tuxera or NTFS-3g or Paragon? These will usually prevent Bootcamp from showing up in the Startup Disks.

When you boot in Parallels what is the filesystem type for C: - NTFS or some variant of FAT?

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NikkuShouri Author

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Jul 10, 2014 3:18 PM in response to Loner T

No problem.

I do have paragon installed, but it was installed on the 2010 laptop too. I didn't change anything on the SSD with OSX installed.

Its NTFS

I think it has to be something with one or more of the multiple boot files that Windows uses. But I don't know for sure.

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Loner T

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Jul 10, 2014 4:10 PM in response to NikkuShouri

There is a difference, see the highlighted part. Do you have way to disable the Paragon driver for your NTFS volume?

It should at least then show up in the Startup disk. Bootrec.exe should be the next logical step to try and fix the MBR. From the OSX side, your partitions do not seem to show any issues.

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Jul 10, 2014 4:37 PM in response to Loner T

I just deleted Paragon for now. I will worry about that later.

I would like to try the Bootrec.exe option but I cannot boot to the system repair anymore. I just get an error saying that this version of system recovery is not compatible with the version of Windows you are trying to repair. Even though it was the same usb drive that was working earlier today.

Any idea on what to do there?

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Loner T

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Jul 10, 2014 5:29 PM in response to NikkuShouri

The "Operating System not found" error is much easier to fix. What version of Windows are your running?

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Jul 10, 2014 5:32 PM in response to Loner T

Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

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Answer 9

Loner T

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Jul 10, 2014 6:18 PM in response to NikkuShouri

Can I suggest using a CD/DVD for recovery, rather than a USB? The USB being a writable media can create problems. You would need a CD/DVD drive and the Windows Installation disk.

Take a look at this article - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

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Jul 10, 2014 9:43 PM in response to Loner T

Well I really wish I had just gone to bed and worked on this later. I just screwed up bad. I decided to back up the data and just reinstall Windows. It didn't work the first time I tried so I was erasing the bootcamp partition and accidentally clicked on the whole hard drive in disk utility. So now I just lost all the data on that drive including the storage partition. I am extremely upset right now and I am running Data Rescue III to try and get the data back. I have no idea if I'll be able to get any back because now the whole drive is formatted as fat32.

Once I get that sorted out I am sure I will have more issues so I will post an update when I get to that point. It looks like Bootcamp isn't going to make it easy to get everything working since I want Windows on the drive in the optical bay.

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Loner T

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Jul 11, 2014 5:06 AM in response to NikkuShouri

Do you have a Time Machine backup? You may be able to recover data using TestDisk as well.

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NikkuShouri Author

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Jul 11, 2014 7:45 AM in response to Loner T

No time machine backup because I am an idiot and never ordered a bigger external drive that would hold everything.

I downloaded TestDisk. How would I go about restoring the old partition? It was only a quick format so I know its probably all still there and I have not copied anything new to the drive to overwrite anything.

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Loner T

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Jul 11, 2014 10:55 AM in response to NikkuShouri

Please start here - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

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