Bootcamp clone booting in new SSD drive

Hi everyone !


I have just advanced my hard drive with a new SSD, because i wanted my macbook to be quicker.

I had two partitions to my old HD. The first was mackintosh and the other bootcamp (with windows 7 installed).

I used time machine for mackintosh. For bootcamp i used disk utility and made a clone of it in an external hard drive.

After i installed the new HD in my macbook, i restored all my data from time machine.

The fact is that i wanted to make the bootcamp partition to work *** it was before.

So i made a new partition using disk utility (fat 32), with the same size as the bootcamp partition i had cloned.

With disk utility again i restored the bootcamp partition that i had cloned, to the new partition i made in the new drive.

At the system preferences i can select "windows bootcamp" as a start up disk, but if i restart my computer using this, windows dont boot. I can only see a black screen with a message telling "Insert boot disk and press any key".

When i open my computer and i press the option key the bootcamp partition does no appear.


The question is "Can i fix it (bootcamp partition) so that i can use windows without installing them again ?

Thank you!

MacBook, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)

Posted on Feb 12, 2018 2:12 AM

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