I am running Win7 64 bits. The drives are SATA drives. There are two bays in my laptop.
I made an image of my C partition (where the OS is installed) with Magix PC Check and tuning.
I then placed the new drive in bay 2.
I created a partition on the new drive, which is the same size as the C drive partition on the old drive. I had to give the partition on the new drive a letter: D.
I restored the image using Magix PC Check and tuning. All went well. It did all this under Windows.
I created two other partitions on the new drive (with Win7 Disk manager) and copied the files in the old partitions (only personal data) to the new partitions on the new drive.
I switched the two drives in the bays, but the new drive won't boot.
What did I do wrong?
I tried looking at the built in cloning stuff in Win7 Backup and Restore, but am not sure that will work any better copying the old partition C to the new drive or its partition.
What next?
David
I made an image of my C partition (where the OS is installed) with Magix PC Check and tuning.
I then placed the new drive in bay 2.
I created a partition on the new drive, which is the same size as the C drive partition on the old drive. I had to give the partition on the new drive a letter: D.
I restored the image using Magix PC Check and tuning. All went well. It did all this under Windows.
I created two other partitions on the new drive (with Win7 Disk manager) and copied the files in the old partitions (only personal data) to the new partitions on the new drive.
I switched the two drives in the bays, but the new drive won't boot.
What did I do wrong?
I tried looking at the built in cloning stuff in Win7 Backup and Restore, but am not sure that will work any better copying the old partition C to the new drive or its partition.
What next?
David