Duplicate Partition Booting

[spazman5656]

I recently copied my old hard drive, with 3 partitions, to a newer and bigger hard drive. When I boot the copy of my old vista installation, it boots from the copy on the old drive instead of the copy on my new drive. I have tried using EasyBCD to make sure that I am specifying the correct drive for that installation, but no matter what I do it continues to boot from the old drive and will not boot from the new drive.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Physically swap the drives over.

 

[spazman5656]

Physically swap the drives over.

I would, but I am hoping there is something that can be done via software. I have actually replaced my CD drive with a hard drive caddy and I had to take my laptop completely apart to get to it, so I want to try to avoid having to do that.

 

[USAFRet]

I recently copied my old hard drive, with 3 partitions, to a newer and bigger hard drive.

How did you 'copy' the partitions to the new drive? Just a simple copy is not going to do it.

 

[popatim]

Make sure the new drive is first in the boot order also.

 

[spazman5656]

How did you 'copy' the partitions to the new drive? Just a simple copy is not going to do it.

I used DriveImage XML and used the drive to drive option.

 

[spazman5656]

Make sure the new drive is first in the boot order also.

I will switch it if it isn't already, but does this really matter? Before any operating system loads, I select the one I want to boot. Also, I have a new partition on my new drive with a fresh vista installation that boots just fine.

 

[popatim]

yes, the bios gets the boot info from the first boot device (if it can find it) so if the old drive is still first then your still booting from the old config. This is assumiing you are using a multiboot setup since you mentioned easybcd and not the F12 boot options menu during POST.

 

[spazman5656]

yes, the bios gets the boot info from the first boot device (if it can find it) so if the old drive is still first then your still booting from the old config. This is assumiing you are using a multiboot setup since you mentioned easybcd and not the F12 boot options menu during POST.

I checked and the new drive is first in boot order.