{"id":871,"date":"2016-10-14T06:11:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=871"},"modified":"2020-06-25T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:31:25","slug":"clone-your-windows-boot-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2016\/clone-your-windows-boot-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Clone Your Windows Boot Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I. Prepare the New Disk<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Connect your new disk as a secondary disk.<br \/>\n2. In DiskManager, create a 200MB hidden NTFS partition (no drive letter) on your new disk.<br \/>\n3. Right-click the hidden partition and mark it Active.<br \/>\n4. Then create a regular NTFS partition (with drive letter) filling the rest of the space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II. Clone Old Disk to New<\/strong><br \/>\n5. Install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.runtime.org\/driveimage-xml.htm\">DriveImage XML<\/a> and choose Drive to Drive or Restore and clone your disk. Ignore warnings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III. Make the New Disk Bootable<\/strong><br \/>\n6. Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2017\/repair-windows-boot-drive\/\">these instructions<\/a> to create a Windows recovery usb and use it to make the new drive bootable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV. Cleanup<\/strong><br \/>\n11. Scan your new boot disk for errors.<br \/>\n12. If the cloned disk complains about not having a genuine version of Windows, open a prompt as Administrator and type:<br \/>\nSLMGR -REARM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Reading:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/tutorials\/104341-bootmgr-missing-fix.html\">http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/tutorials\/104341-bootmgr-missing-fix.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatvwant.com\/this-copy-of-windows-is-not-genuine-easy-solution\/\">http:\/\/www.whatvwant.com\/this-copy-of-windows-is-not-genuine-easy-solution\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I. Prepare the New Disk 1. Connect your new disk as a secondary disk. 2. In DiskManager, create a 200MB hidden NTFS partition (no drive letter) on your new disk. 3. Right-click the hidden partition and mark it Active. 4. Then create a regular NTFS partition (with drive letter) filling the rest of the space. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}