[ale] help, windows 7 boot error

[Jim Kinney]

Pull the plug from the drive 1 before proceeding. That way you are
certain that ONLY drive 0 will get redone.

On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 11:28 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 01/28/2015 11:09 AM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> > Restoring from the vendor's recovery stick on the old drive will most
> > likely wipe out all of your data and programs -- it is typically a
> > complete wipe and reinstall of the system.  At this point since you
> > cannot boot the original drive, you have the following options:
> >     - Use the recovery stick to restore to the new drive, then rebuild
> > your Linux install from scratch
> >     - Manually install Windows on your new drive, manually copy data
> > over from the old drive, then rebuild your Linux install from scratch
> >
> > You just need to bite the bullet and rebuild from scratch.  It sounds
> > like too many changes have been made to be able to understand what
> > state the drives/partitions are in, at least without physically
> > sitting down at the system and debugging.  Whatever you do, make sure
> > to only do it on the new drive and leave the old one alone, except for
> > copying data off of it.
> my only concern with restoring from the recovery USB stick is... I now
> have a 3TB drive 0, and a 2 TB drive 1. I don't want the install to
> touch drive 1, that has ALL my backups & Linux partitions. As long as
> the recovery just formats drive 0 and installs windows on it, I will be
> happy:)
> I don't care about ALL the programs on it, all I really need is Windows
> 7, so I can install my Turbotax for 2014.. and my ancient Hallmark card
> studio 2009..
> >
> >
> > > I mounted the Recovery partition and I am copying all the files over
> > to my HD.. maybe I can make a bootable CD with that, & restore windows
> > to the new drive..
> >
> > No, you cannot do that.  This is what got you into the situation to
> > begin with.  A plain copy of files to a new drive does not make it
> > bootable -- you must either image it or do something else to install a
> > boot sector, and that kind of thing is pretty undocumented for vendor
> > recovery partitions.
> yeah, I didn't think that would be an option, wish list maybe:)
> >
> >
> > ❧ Brian Mathis
> > @orev
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Paul Cartwright
> > <pbcartwright at gmail.com <mailto:pbcartwright at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 01/27/2015 09:31 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> >     > So your original partitions are not on place. Check if you have the
> >     > windows boot partition which is about 100 MB FAT and the windows
> >     > factory install which should be few gigabytes.
> >     I know, my Windows recovery USB stick just arrived... and right before
> >     it did, I found this:
> >
> >     http://superuser.com/questions/193166/reinstall-windows-7-from-recovery-partition-on-a-dell-studio-1555-laptop
> >
> >     so now I have my recovery USB stick.. do I trash that drive &
> >     restore...
> >     then all I need to do is restore MBR..
> >
>  
> 

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