you have to reboot the old windows 7 a few times after restoring it to a VHD because it detects the VHD disk as new hardware. window 7 supports booting from VHD natively, so I used a free program called EasyBCD to add the old win7 VHD to the boot menu of my new windows 7, so now I can boot to it directly as well (actually, i also used EasyBCD earlier to add a boot reference to my boot.wim file so i could also boot directly to a Win7PE). Ok, so now i could boot my old windows in virtualbox, which was cool, but you wanted to dual boot so here's the final step:Ĥ. booted the virtualbox windows from an emergency disk (Win7PE boot.wim file) and restored my old system partition to it with drive snapshot.
installed virtualbox on the new windows (vmware should also work), created a VHD the size of my old C: partition (or a little bigger) for a new virtual machine, and then installed windows 7 on it (this way you get the structure right, including the hidden 100 MB boot partition).ģ. made a backup of the old system partition (C: ) before reinstalling windows 7 over it.Ģ. I was in a similar situation as you in that i wanted to keep an older windows 7 available for the time being and my backup/restore utility was drive snapshot. initialised to some random number by disk manager. Detects and corrects some problems with not booting disks.Ĭlean Disk: effectively erases the complete disk by cleaning the disks first sector (MBR).Ĭlean Disk Signature/Restore Disk Signature: a 32 Bit number in the MBR, which is used by some Windows components to re-identify disks. If the original CHS translation is different from the new one, these leads to a non-booting disk. Restore MBR: restores just the first sector of the diskĬheckBoot: unfortunately, even 2007 some boot sector still use CHS addressing. Restore Partition Structure: deletes the existing partitioning, and repartitions the disk like the original one includes restoring the MBR I can't use: "Restore Partition Structure" because of the smaller size of the new disk. ĭo i have to choose the option: "restore mbr" to avoid boot problems? Win 7 does not have the small system partition preceding.
restore each individual image (which i have made already). partition the 500 with 4 partitions ,like the 640 but different sizes.Ģ. I never restored windows 7 to a different disk ,so this is what i plan to do:ġ. I bought a ssd and am going to put a fresh install on it.īut i want to dual boot to my old windows for the time being,i also bought a 500 gb samsung F3 to replace the broken 640. I am a long time user of DS,but, another WD disk is biting the dust ,a 640 black edition.(and a 1tb green disk as well)
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