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theMarble

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Sep 27, 2020
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Hi everyone, sorry for the long post but it's required to understand what is happening.

So for a long backstory here; I had 10.6, 10.7, 10.9 and Win7 on my MacBookPro2,1. This was on the original 160GB HDD. Later, I decide to upgrade it to a 240GB SSD, easy enough right? No! I install the SSD just fine and then clone the drive (with all partitions) to the SSD using a tool known as CloneZilla. I've used this in the past on other PC's and Mac's. It has worked fine on all cases, however this time, it cloned everything yet the Windows partition wouldn't show up on the boot picker, disk utility or anywhere else except from GParted on Linux. (OS X worked just fine).

I forget about it for a few months and use OS X until I needed to use Windows again. So, I first try using the recovery tools in the Windows 7 CD but it says that the "system version is not compatible with the recovery disc". Except that I installed it originally on the HDD using the same disc and here. Nevermind, I say screw it and go and re-install Windows. I can't use bootcamp as I have multiple OS X partitions so I removed Lion/10.7 as I only used it to install Mavericks on NFP. That worked fine.

Now, I go to create a new partition for Windows and it says "MediaKit: partition (map) too small" or something along those lines. I try in Mavericks, Snow Leopard and on my Leopard Install DVD to no avail. What is happening here, how do I fix this and re-install Windows?

Thanks for any advice!
 
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