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[DaveH]

I like the description "schizophrenic", that sums it up pretty good.  I used to call it a "frankenstein" because the monster was made from parts from different bodies.   You take the head from one person and attach it to the body of another.....LOL

Gene,  your not really booting into either operating system independant of the other, and that is whats causing the problems.

Your clone has taken on a different drive letter and windows is using system files and user profiles from the first hard drive.

It also causes any program that tries to use a relative or absolute path to fail.

Brian has a fix to reset the drive letter that should be much faster than having to start over.

Dave

[ebelenit]

Any idea on what caused schitzo? I tried to follow directions step by step on cloning the drive using Norton Ghost 15 and it seemed to work just fine... Did I miss a step or were directions faulty?

Link to directions I used.

I am going to try to unplug the old HDD and see if I can boot it up.

[Brian_K]

Gene,

Thanks for posting the Symantec link. The instructions are an improvement on the userguide instructions but they leave out a critical step which led to your schizophrenic system. After completing Copy Drive you MUST remove the old HD and do at least one boot from the new HD so that it can adopt the C: drive letter. After this has been done the old HD can be reinstalled as a "slave" if desired. If you don't delete the old OS partition you should have a boot manager to select which OS to use and each OS will be C: drive when it is booted. If the non booting OS is not hidden from the booted OS it is irrelevant which drive letter is assigned to the non booting OS. You can even change this manually if desired.

Let us know what happens when you try to boot the SSD on its own.

[ebelenit]

Thanks for the input everyone. I was too bugged down the last couple of days to mess with it. Going to try again tomorrow...

[ebelenit]

Ok, I did it.

And as you all predicted, it booted into blue screen "This version of Windows is not legal or whatever"

How should I fix it? Or is it easier to use Norton 15 and clone is again?

Thanks!

[Brian_K]

This should fix it. I have several methods to fix this drive letter issue.

Disconnect all HDs except the new Win7 HD (your SSD)

Boot from a Win7 disc
At the "Install Windows" screen press SHIFT F10 to get a command prompt
Enter these lines and press Enter at each line

diskpart
select disk 0   
uniqueid disk ID=6B696473    
exit
exit
On the Install Windows screen click Next
Repair your computer
Repair and restart
leave the Win7 disk in the tray

Boot from a Win7 disc again
On the Install Windows screen click Next
Repair your computer
dot in Use recovery tools....., Next
Startup Repair
It may say the repair failed
Finish
Restart
remove Win7 disk and boot into Windows

[DaveH]

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[Brian_K]

Unfortunately I have 5 letters in my name.

[DaveH]

I do too, but only my mother calls me David.

[Brian_K]

ebelenit,

Any news for us?