Migrating/copying boot partition to another HDD partition

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jd111

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Hi,

I have win 8 pro installed & two HDDs with two partions each , I want to migrate the boot partition to another partition on the second drive .

It would have been easier if i would have just cloned the complete drives but one of the partions on the 2nd drive has data which cannot be deleted .

So I have Drive 1 - Partitions C: ( boot partition ) & D:

Drive 2 - Partitions E: & F:

I want to remove Drive 1 from my PC so i want to copy C: to E: then remove drive 1 & boot from E:

I tried "Easeus todo backup" , did not work, it does not make the copy bootable , to make it bootale the whole drive has to be copied .

I tried making an image of C: using win8 inbuilt backup feature then removed drive 1 , installed win8 on E: then tried restoring the image of C: but i got some error.

Is there any other way using freeware that can do the job?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win8 pro
You probably forgot to copy/move the bootmgr in the system partition. Have a look into your Disk Management.

I use free Macrium for such tasks.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Vista and Win7
    System Manufacturer/Model
    2xHP, 2xGateway, 1xDell, 1xSony
    Hard Drives
    5 SSDs and 12 HDs

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win8 pro
whs said:
You probably forgot to copy/move the bootmgr in the system partition. Have a look into your Disk Management.

I use free Macrium for such tasks.
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Did not try macrium , will try it next time, but all softwares that i tried did not copy mbr/boot manager to the new partition.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win8 pro
jd111 said:
whs said:
You probably forgot to copy/move the bootmgr in the system partition. Have a look into your Disk Management.

I use free Macrium for such tasks.
Click to expand...

Did not try macrium , will try it next time, but all softwares that i tried did not copy mbr/boot manager to the new partition.
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We are not talking about the MBR. We are talking about the system partition.

Post a screen shot of your Disk Management as theog suggested. Then we'll see.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Vista and Win7
    System Manufacturer/Model
    2xHP, 2xGateway, 1xDell, 1xSony
    Hard Drives
    5 SSDs and 12 HDs
jd111 said:
Did not try macrium , will try it next time, but all softwares that i tried did not copy mbr/boot manager to the new partition.
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The "boot manager" is a directory and bunch of files. In preinstalled systems, there is a separate "boot" partition that contains these. IF you use MR to migrate ONLY the OS partition to another drive, it will not automatically migrate the "boot" partition as well -- unless you tell it to. IF, as on my system, you have moved the "boot" stuff to be INSIDE the Windows OS partition, then migrating that will also migrate the "boot" stuff.
 

My Computer

System One

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win8 pro
Mark Phelps said:
jd111 said:
Did not try macrium , will try it next time, but all softwares that i tried did not copy mbr/boot manager to the new partition.
Click to expand...
The "boot manager" is a directory and bunch of files. In preinstalled systems, there is a separate "boot" partition that contains these. IF you use MR to migrate ONLY the OS partition to another drive, it will not automatically migrate the "boot" partition as well -- unless you tell it to. IF, as on my system, you have moved the "boot" stuff to be INSIDE the Windows OS partition, then migrating that will also migrate the "boot" stuff.
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There was no separate boot partition ( If you are talking about the 100-350mb system reserved partition ) , Disk 1 had no partitions when windows was installed, i made a partition later.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win8 pro

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    ME, XP,Vista,Win7,Win8,Win8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Other Info
    Notebooks x 3

    Desktops x 5

    Towers x 4
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