Boot drive cloned to new disk but windows not activated keygen#
Thanks for the clear concise explanation. It's followed on the next screen by "repair startup" which is much more specific and exactly what you need. That's also what the DVD repair will do.ĭon't worry about "repair your computer". The disk letters are just EasyBCD translating the near-unintelligible UID into a simple user-friendly letter for your convenience, so though you might think you've done nothing by deleting W7 on "C" and adding W7 on "C", you have in fact created a completely different BCD entry, pointing to the correct drive rather than the clone source.
EasyBCD uses the registry map and finds the disk letter you point it at, and uses the corresponding UID to create the new BCD entry. You can achieve the same result by deleting and re-adding a BCD entry with EasyBCD. That's why you need to "repair" the cloned BCD so that it finds the new unique disk signature and uses that instead of the clone source. When you clone a disk, you also clone the BCD, so the new BCD doesn't point at itself, it points at the drive/partition you cloned it from. That's stored in a registry partition map, which is where the OS creates virtual disk letters at POST time (unless you've previously personally assigned your own letter using Disk Management, in which case that is also stored in the map and used at POST in preference to dynamic allocation) The partitions are actually addressed using a hash of the unique disk signature and the partition offset from the start of the disk in a clumsy user-error-prone format difficult to read and type. The BCD doesn't contain disk letters, though you see them in EasyBCD. The running drive has to be C: doesn't it? If so, what do I select for the drive? My guess is C: but I don't really understand why there is a choice. So, could I just delete the BCD entry with the ssd running and then add another entry that hopefully is now be correct for that disk. I installed EasyBCD and as expected the detailed view of the BCD entry looks identical to what I see on the working bootable disk. I waited and after 5 minutes it booted a little odd without the rotating color balls or the audible jingle but seemed to be working. I got lucky and noticed the disk activity led would blink once every 15 seconds. Instead of getting the error message it looks like it freezes with "Starting Windows" displayed on the screen. The working 500GB mhd, another cloned 500GB mhd (doesn't boot with error to do the repair windows thing), and a cloned 1TB ssd that oddly does boot in a weird way. There is another possible solution I want ask about. Maybe with EFI you can't modify the BCD on another disk.
I'm assuming that is where the BCD resides (I can't find it). The guide says I need add a drive letter to the hidden disks but disk management will not do anything with the 100mb EFI system partitions so I can't add a drive letter so I can't see those partitions in windows explorer. It seems straight forward from another post that all I need to do is remove the BCD entry on the cloned disk and then add an entry that should then be then correct for that disk. It's the typical problem where the cloned disk (using Seagate Disk Wizard) won't boot to windows which is normal I guess.
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