blastoboy1000 Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 Hey everybody, So, I recently upgraded my unibody macbook's internal HDD from 250 to 500GB. I'm pretty happy with it, except for one thing. When I was 'installing' OS X on the new internal drive (i bought an external enclosure for my old drive, booted from it, and used disk utility to restore the old drive to the new one), it worked fine. As far as I can tell, though, there's no such easy way of cloning my old Windows 7 partition on to the new drive, which is stupid. After just copying and pasting all the files from my old Win7 partition into the new one (which didn't work), I tried using Disk Utility's restore operation for the same task (which didn't work). Then, I just installed Windows 7 through Boot Camp, although I really don't want to have to reinstall everything (especially the Boot Camp drivers..., and all my software). So, I tried overwriting everything in the functional, installed Windows 7 partition with the files from my old, external Windows 7 partition, which did nothing more than kill it. I feel like there's one measly little file that I'm missing from the external drive (which doesn't really make sense) that is causing OS X to not notice the existence of the other OS... Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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