Moving Bootcamp partition to new drive?

[jtcedinburgh]

Hi folks.

I recently swapped the 500Gb WD drive out of my Macbook Pro for a 500Gb Seagate Momentus XT drive. OSX transferred across without any trouble, but despite using WinClone to backup the Bootcamp partition (running Windows 7 64-bit) I haven't been able to restore it successfully.

What happens is that it appears to restore, and I get the dual boot screen when I hold down the Alt key, but on selecting Windows I end up getting a screen saying that some component or other is missing.

Any ideas? I might choose simply to use Windows 7 under Parallels on this machine if I am faced with a full restore, since that way I can more easily backup the Windows side, and since it's running (MUCH) better since swapping drives. However, IDEALLY I'd prefer to restore my existing partition...

 

[balamw]

What happens is that it appears to restore, and I get the dual boot screen when I hold down the Alt key, but on selecting Windows I end up getting a screen saying that some component or other is missing.

Sometimes after Winclone. you need to let W7 tweak its startup a bit. From the install disc, you can run the startup repair wizard which can usually fix many of these kinds of issues.

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[jtcedinburgh]

Thanks - I shall try that...