Once the restore is completed, you MUST NOT boot Windows with the new drive mounted in it. When you do, Windows marks it as a secondary drive and it will not be bootable.
The other issue you may have is that if you've cloned a RAID drive, you may have to do a repair once you break the RAID array and set the new drive up. Be sure you disconnect the RAID drives from the system before you try this.
My first question if you don't mind is, why do you want to dual boot Vista and Windows 7? They're very similar operating systems, so I know of no software or hardware incompatibilities between the two.
My second question is whether you have a RAID 0 or 1?
ejn63
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February 7th, 2014 10:00
Once the restore is completed, you MUST NOT boot Windows with the new drive mounted in it. When you do, Windows marks it as a secondary drive and it will not be bootable.
The other issue you may have is that if you've cloned a RAID drive, you may have to do a repair once you break the RAID array and set the new drive up. Be sure you disconnect the RAID drives from the system before you try this.
osprey4
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February 7th, 2014 10:00
Hi Jonny,
My first question if you don't mind is, why do you want to dual boot Vista and Windows 7? They're very similar operating systems, so I know of no software or hardware incompatibilities between the two.
My second question is whether you have a RAID 0 or 1?