Cloning my main current Hard drive to my new SSHD yields "BOOTMGR is missing" when trying to boot

[Brojito]

So I wanted to upgrade my hard drive to the 2TB SSHD I just got from my 300gb and 160gb Hard drives that I currently have in my computer. The 300gb hard drive is the one I have ALL my files on and the one I wanted to clone so I can start to boot from my SSHD.

After I cloned my 300gb hard drive (which has the Windows 7 Ultimate OS on it) to the SSHD, trying to boot from the SSHD yeilds "BOOTMGR is missing" message. I noticed that under disk management that my 160gb hard has listed under it (System, Active, Primary partition) while my 300gb drive has (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition).

Is there reason that the BOOTMGR is missing is because the drive I'm cloning doesnt have the System assignment? Also if that is the case then is there a way to clone the contents of both disks into my new SSHD? My knowledge of computers is somewhat limited I know but any help would be appreciated!

 

[Vudue Priest]

Is there a particular reason that you wouldn't use this opportunity to do a fresh install and then just copy the files over that you want? Other than having to do salvos of updates?

 

[Vudue Priest]

Oye mate, did you ever figure this out?

 

[Brojito]

Thanks for the replies, sorry it took a while to get things sorted out.

So the real problem was that the system partition was located on another disk drive (which is why I got "BOOTMGR is missing") so It wasn't possible for me to just clone both system from that drive and the boot etc. on the other drive to he hybrid drive (my new drive), because I think you can only clone 1 disk to another disk and not multiple. I ended up just installing windows onto my new hybrid drive and now that drive contains everything. It just would have been nice to clone my disk that way I didnt have to update/reinstall programs/ change preferences an all that becase that literally took me about 2 days.

 

[Vudue Priest]

Thanks for the replies, sorry it took a while to get things sorted out.

So the real problem was that the system partition was located on another disk drive (which is why I got "BOOTMGR is missing") so It wasn't possible for me to just clone both system from that drive and the boot etc. on the other drive to he hybrid drive (my new drive), because I think you can only clone 1 disk to another disk and not multiple. I ended up just installing windows onto my new hybrid drive and now that drive contains everything. It just would have been nice to clone my disk that way I didnt have to update/reinstall programs/ change preferences an all that becase that literally took me about 2 days.

did you have windows installed on two HDD that were in raid 0? If not then how did you have windows installed across multiple drives?

 

[Brojito]

Thanks for the replies, sorry it took a while to get things sorted out.

So the real problem was that the system partition was located on another disk drive (which is why I got "BOOTMGR is missing") so It wasn't possible for me to just clone both system from that drive and the boot etc. on the other drive to he hybrid drive (my new drive), because I think you can only clone 1 disk to another disk and not multiple. I ended up just installing windows onto my new hybrid drive and now that drive contains everything. It just would have been nice to clone my disk that way I didnt have to update/reinstall programs/ change preferences an all that becase that literally took me about 2 days.

did you have windows installed on two HDD that were in raid 0? If not then how did you have windows installed across multiple drives?

Im not sure if they are, but when I first installed windows I just did whatever setup was recomended and went through with that, which I guess chose to install windows across both drives? No idea what could of been the cause, also its been about a year so I cant really remember 🙁

 

[Vudue Priest]

Fair enough lol. half tempted to pick you as your own best answer lol

 

[brentarc]

So I wanted to upgrade my hard drive to the 2TB SSHD I just got from my 300gb and 160gb Hard drives that I currently have in my computer. The 300gb hard drive is the one I have ALL my files on and the one I wanted to clone so I can start to boot from my SSHD.

After I cloned my 300gb hard drive (which has the Windows 7 Ultimate OS on it) to the SSHD, trying to boot from the SSHD yeilds "BOOTMGR is missing" message. I noticed that under disk management that my 160gb hard has listed under it (System, Active, Primary partition) while my 300gb drive has (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition).

Is there reason that the BOOTMGR is missing is because the drive I'm cloning doesnt have the System assignment? Also if that is the case then is there a way to clone the contents of both disks into my new SSHD? My knowledge of computers is somewhat limited I know but any help would be appreciated!