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Well, I was able to boot from the cloned drive without the last partition. The only thing I didn't try was a recovery, which I'm not too worried about because I'll be using that cloned drive for backups. Thanks to all who helped! Jerry

What I'm going to try is this...clone my C drive to my D drive (they are exactly the same size). Then delete the last partition on the cloned drive. Remove my C drive. (My BIOS settings won't let me turn off/disable any hard drives...thanks to Gateway). Try to boot from the cloned drive. I'll...

Thanks to all for your help. I really do appreciate it. Saltgrass---I ran reagentc /enable and this is what I got: Thanks.

I've enabled Legacy boot in BIOS months ago. I haven't gone back to 8 from 8.1. When I received my Gateway, Windows 8 came preinstalled and have been getting the usual updates from Microsoft, which included 8.1 at some point. Here is a screenshot of the results of reagentc /info: Thanks!

Thanks for your quick response. As you probably know, the 128MB partition doesn't show in Disk Management because it's a hidden partition. Here is the snapshot from Disk Management: Thanks! Jerry

I have a Gateway computer that came with Window 8 preinstalled. I removed their recovery partition after making recovery disks. There are 5 partitions left on Disk 0. I know what the first 4 partitions are for, but not sure what the 5th one is for. When looking in Windows Disk Management, it...

Hello, I've recently been using the Guest account to keep separate the work I do on the side. BUT---I can't use the optical drive as Guest. When I insert a CD or DVD, nothing happens, and when I try to view the disc in Computer, I get "Windows can't read the disc in drive". All 3 other...