Hi, this discussion is a continuation of How to run Boot Camp on External Hard Drive? This discussion focuses on how to clone the C: disk in Bootcamp to a second bootable drive.
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11), Windows 7
pentelho wrote:
The absolute path to winload.exe is /Volumes/LILY/Windows/System32/winload.exe
and the path to the BCD file is: /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/Boot/BCD
Are both 'LILY' volumes connected at the same time? Let us put the TBIL side-bar on hold for a minute.
No, right now only LILY is connected. This is because I can boot into Windows only if the second disk (whose name is LILY2 BTW) is not connected.
What is the TBIL sidebar?
Also, how can I clone under Linux if my machine(s) is mac/Windows?
To be more specific, I can boot windows only if the second disk is not connected through TB, it can be connected through USB though, and then it's just a standard harddrive D:
Shutdown Windows, connect LILY2 to TB and disconnect LILY. Try to boot into Windows.
I'll do this now, but I can predict the outcome: No boot!! Stand by pls
YYes, no boot
STatus: 0xc000000e
info: the boot selection failed because a required device is not accessible
This is expected behavior. Since the Bootloader starts, and gives this error about an external device, it is doing the right thing. This can be fixed.
You will need to rebuild the BCD using bootrec.exe and test. Please see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/927392 . You may also need Windows Startup Repair.
YEs, but before I do this, I need to put the system onto LILY2. How do you advise to do this? Use winclone on a GUID NTFS disk, or use some other utility to clone the system on USB connected LILY2 under Windows?
thx Steve
Do you want to consider CloneZilla (http://clonezilla.org/) and clone LILY to LILY2? CloneZilla should maintain the Fdisk partition scheme. Using a GPT with Hybrid MBR is not the same and Windows may show new issues.
What about Macrium Reflect http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
I had a friend recommend this.
thx Stefan
Certainly. You can use any tool of your choice, as long as you get a viable/verifiable clone.
S.. Client just called me in for mtg. I'll clone overnight and get back.
No worries. "See" you later.
Hi Loner, Good day or Good Night, I am back, and I cloned LILY to the twin SSD drive using Macrium Reflex, and it went all hunky dory, but the clone is still not bootable. Go figure. It's 9:40 pm here now, I still have some work which I am conducting on the travel PC, but I'll turn in soon. The original LILY is still bootable!! so no irreversable damage done. Perhaps we should go bootrec when you are back online.
Always thanks for your help!!!! Steve
Loner-san,
When I installed the Macrium reflect utility, it prompted me to create a recovery disk using the Windows PE environment, which I did. When I start up from the rescue disk the DRIVERS WORK!!!! heyyyyy, i.e., I can control the screen with mouse and keyboard. The GUI asks me all kind of intelligent questions, where I want to boot from, and whether I want to replace the MBR and all kind of other Kanji riddles. Obviously I want to boot from LILY, but that's where I gave up, since I did not want to irreparably damage the current set up, i.e., I do not want the OLD LILY to go BUST!.
Please help make sense of all of this.
Arigato, thank you
Cloning of Windows Partition in Bootcamp
