On you 2TB drive the boot files were more likely on the recovery

partition and not the win7 partition. So most likely yes you will

have to do the bcdboot.exe on the new drive as it will not have

the recovery partition on it. It's not a real problem to boot

from the win7 partition just have to have something like winpe

or recovery disk to use to get to a command prompt to run it.

If your windows 7 is still working go to start then maintance

and make a recovery cd and you will have a boot winpe.

Make sure it will boot before you start. You need this CD

anyhow to recover any system problems you might have later.

Tom

Hello itinko

First make sure you have a winpe boot disk or flash drive.

Win7 boots to active partition it must be ntfs and dell utility

is a FAT partition, so you will need to make the win7 partition

active. after it is installed you will have to boot from disk or

flash drive and go to commant prompt and change to

c:\windows\system32

and run

bcdboot.exe c:\windows

this will create the boot files for your windows7.

Hope this helps.

Tom

Thanks for your reply Tom.

Do I still have to do the bcdboot.exe? I'm cloning an existing install which has been in use for months (that's why I don't want to do a new install).

Thanks!

M.