Norton Ghost 15, Windows 7 clone and missing BOOTMGR

Hello

 

I had a problem with cloning a windows 7 boot disk and makeing it bootable.

The two first times I cloned it by copying only the c:\ partition on the source disk.

But when I tried to boot it I got the message "BOOTMGR missing".

I copied the MBR and made the disk active but to no avail.

I did it twice and I am quite sure I am not the first to do this.

 

The solution was however the following:

 

First make a 110 Mb (megabytes) (Maybe 100 is enough) partition and clone that by:

- Select "Copy my hard drive".

- Select "Show hidden drives".

- Select the 100 mb partition.

Copy this 100 Mb hidden drive to your new empty partition by selecting

- Set drive active (for booting OS)
- Copy MBR
- Destination partition type : Primary
- Drive letter : None

 

After this copy is done you can clone the rest of the diskt (c:\)

- Select "Copy my hard drive" again.

- Select the C:\ drive as source and copy this to the unused partition on your new hardddrive.

- Set drive active (for booting OS)
- Copy MBR
- Destination partition type : Primary
- Drive letter : None

 

(I'm not sure if MBR is needed the second time but it probaly does not make a difference)

 

After this procedure my disk booted like a charm. I made two attempts before I got this idea.

 

Enjoy

 

Asbjørn Oskal