How to make a restored Bootcamp partition active/bootable?

[xchaotic]

Hi.

I upgraded my HDD, I simply used disk Utility to move data for the OSX HFS partition.
I tried to use Winclone to move but that didn't work too well, plus there is a unnecessary image step, so I ended up moving using disk utility again which again went fine.
The only problem is that rather than creating the partition through bootcamp assistant, I created it straight in diskutility and windows is not bootable.
I tried using fdisk to fix but that didn't work.

The partition table is GUID based and the windows partition is NTFS.

All I need is a way to be able to restore booting into windows, as right now this is not an option when I press the alt key...

I have backups for everything, but I'd rather not fiddle with disk swapping again as it all takes so long...

 

[balamw]

I'm sure that what you wan can be handled with GParted Live. Just make the partitions look like the old drive.

However like all partition operations, proceed at you own risk.

B

 

[xchaotic]

Thanks, very useful and the ISO's not too big which really helps in my case..

Lech

 

[balamw]

Let us know how it turns out...

B