Bootcamp and HDD replacement

[thale]

Hi all,

I'm in the process of upgrading the hard drive in my mid-2010 MBP, from 250GB to 750GB. I had previously done boot camp, and was running Win7 ultimate perfectly. I cloned the drive using a linux tool (dd command on SysRescCD) and swapped them. When I came to boot from the new disk however, I found that the bootloader couldn't see the windows partition. I ran disk utility from the apple install CD, both partitions seemed fine. I then restarted from there, and was presented with the option to boot from the windows partition, which I selected. On rebooting, after the chime I got a black screen with "No Bootable Device" or some such text displayed. I can boot into OSX Lion just fine.

Any ideas as to how t oget windows back? I don't really want to have to reinstall from scratch.

Thanks.

 

[SaggyBagz]

Hi, try booting from the Windows install disk so you can get to the command prompt in recovery console.

Try using this command: bootrec /fixboot ( or /fixmbr if /fixboot doesn't do it)

You don't have to worry about modifying the mbr of the HDD because Mac EFI doesn't natively use this to boot from.