Solved Windows 8 boot problem

sl2222

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Well I'm back again with a problem I can't figure out.

Here's my situation...
Dual boot system with win 7 and 8
c drive has the MBR (uefi mb but set fully to operate under mbr) with win 7.
g drive has windows 8 and boots fine under the win 7 multi-boot menu. There's also a 750MB 2nd partition on that drive.

the g drive is a standard drive. I got an ssd to move faster. I used paragon migrate os to ssd to clone the partition to the ssd. Everything seemed to go fine. The disk looks good in explorer (health and active) but when I try to boot that drive from the menu I get a 'winload.exe' error. (missing or corrupt but it is there)

I've tried bootrec, diskpart etc.
Any ideas on how to get this drive to boot?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
Ok, I went back to my existing system for now. I eliminated the ssd and I boot from my win7 CDrive and I can go into 7 or 8 under that menu. BOTH disks are MBR not GPT. So apparently it is possible to install win 8 on a non uefi board with mbr.
I wish I could remember how I did it. :)

On a side note I did a clean install of Win8 on the ssd while it was the only drive in the system (had do gpt for that). It installed fine but whenever I plug in ANY other drive it chokes and goes into a boot loop. I have 5 other drives in this system and no matter which one I add it does the boot loop. Also the system is set to auto which is suppose to let it boot under uefi or mbr.
Here's a shot of my system without the ssd.
well. apparently no pic. When I click the image icon there is no 'browse button' or box under the my computer tab.

Thanks
p.s. this was sent from windows 8 on an mbr disk.

c drive has the MBR (uefi mb but set fully to operate under mbr) with win 7.

A uEFI install will only install to GPT setup HDD.

Can you post a screen shot of Disk management?

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2598-screenshots-files-upload-post-eight-forums.html
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
Are you using the newest version of Paragon Migrate OS to SSD version 3.0? Because the earlier versions did not support Windows 8. I tried doing a migration of my Windows 8 installation to another drive using the last version and like with you, Windows 8 would not boot. There is a freebie software called Aomei Bakuper which I have used to successfully migrate Window 8. This was on an MBR disk.

AOMEI's free data backup software for disk, partition, system and file backup & recovery for Windows Oss.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro x64 bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    CyberPower
    CPU
    i5 2500K
    Motherboard
    Asus P8P67 Deluxe
    Memory
    8 gigabytes Corsair PC3-12800 DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce GTX 460 superclocked
    Sound Card
    Integrated
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Viewsonic 23" LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    128 Gb Samsung 840 Pro SSD
    128 Gb Kingston Hyper X SSD
    1 Tb Western Digital Caviar Black HDD
    PSU
    1000 watt Coolermaster modular
    Case
    Coolermaster Haf X full tower
    Cooling
    Coolermaster Hyper 212 plus
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitec M310 USB cordless
    Internet Speed
    1.5 mb/s download 300 kb/s upload
Thanks for that info LittleJay.
I may end up trying that.
I now used farstone recovery to make the gpt disk bootable and I can now boot from the text menu to the ssd. I did a clean install so I was wondering if it's now possible to restore the other win 8 partition with all my programs to the gpt primary data partition.
I'm afraid to try cause I might get back to square 1 but it'd be nice to just restore that image.

Are you using the newest version of Paragon Migrate OS to SSD version 3.0? Because the earlier versions did not support Windows 8. I tried doing a migration of my Windows 8 installation to another drive using the last version and like with you, Windows 8 would not boot. There is a freebie software called Aomei Bakuper which I have used to successfully migrate Window 8. This was on an MBR disk.

AOMEI's free data backup software for disk, partition, system and file backup & recovery for Windows Oss.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
Here's my existing system. K drive is the only gpt disk in the bunch.
I'd like to restore the image of the G drive to the K partition. Do u think it would work?

The dialog box to upload a pic worked now so here it is...
Capture.JPG
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
Sorry mate, but I have never done something like that, so I really don't know. Theog is the expert in these matters and I am sure he will be checking this thread out sometime.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro x64 bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    CyberPower
    CPU
    i5 2500K
    Motherboard
    Asus P8P67 Deluxe
    Memory
    8 gigabytes Corsair PC3-12800 DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce GTX 460 superclocked
    Sound Card
    Integrated
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Viewsonic 23" LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    128 Gb Samsung 840 Pro SSD
    128 Gb Kingston Hyper X SSD
    1 Tb Western Digital Caviar Black HDD
    PSU
    1000 watt Coolermaster modular
    Case
    Coolermaster Haf X full tower
    Cooling
    Coolermaster Hyper 212 plus
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitec M310 USB cordless
    Internet Speed
    1.5 mb/s download 300 kb/s upload
no problem. you gave me ideas.
at any rate i'll mark this as solved because I am now able to boot into win7, win8 on mbr and win8 on gpt. :)
I wouldn't mind getting the graphical boot manager back but I can certainly live with the text one. It's no big deal.
I'm almost done installing my software on the ssd. The thing smokes along pretty well so it's probably a good thing I did a clean install anyway.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
Yes, I agree. A clean install usually works the best, especially on a new SSD. Good to hear you got things sorted, except for the graphical boot manager. I personally have Windows 8 and 7 installed on separate SSDs with Windows 8 set as the first boot disk. When I want to boot 7 I use the bios one time boot menu. I prefer that to having multiple entries in the boot sector of my primary disk.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro x64 bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    CyberPower
    CPU
    i5 2500K
    Motherboard
    Asus P8P67 Deluxe
    Memory
    8 gigabytes Corsair PC3-12800 DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce GTX 460 superclocked
    Sound Card
    Integrated
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Viewsonic 23" LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    128 Gb Samsung 840 Pro SSD
    128 Gb Kingston Hyper X SSD
    1 Tb Western Digital Caviar Black HDD
    PSU
    1000 watt Coolermaster modular
    Case
    Coolermaster Haf X full tower
    Cooling
    Coolermaster Hyper 212 plus
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitec M310 USB cordless
    Internet Speed
    1.5 mb/s download 300 kb/s upload
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