On 05/03/2014 06:16 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Actually, yes. Windows will detect the disk change and refuse to start, but you should see a message about that, very clearly. In that case, you simply have to clone the disk identifier with fdisk.
Not really. and ... not really.
It will boot if you do it right, but it may still come up and want to be re-authorized/licensed because it will notice the hard disk ID has changed which isn't affected by a clone operation (i.e. reads serial number off the driver -- it isn't the drive GUID).
The main issue I found in booting Windows is making sure you have moved BOTH partitions.
Since day 1 Win7 has required 2 partitions to boot -- one is usually *unmapped/unmounted* and called something like 'System Reserved' (mine reads 100MB long w/31MB used.
THEN you have your main 'C' drive partition. I gave up trying to install linux's loader in front of Win's System Reserved, so don't know if just trying to boot from it will work or not.
Are you trying to boot from the C drive, or the SystemReserved drive (the real boot drive that mounts 'C' as the root.
I have 3 computers with Windows on--two Win 7 Pro, and one Win 8.1 Pro, and nono of them have more than one partition. I think MS gets manufacturers to fill up the drives with primary partitions so that you can't install Linux! But I installed two Windows systems myself, and I believe I deleted an extra partition on my Dell laptop, leaving just one for Windows. (Dell is weird: it insisted on making an extra partition for Linux, and Linux (PCLOS) will not work without it! The extra partition seems to contain some or all of the "real" / directory.) So I don't know how I'd run two Linux distros on the laptop, since the one Linux fills up the drive! (And it's not a weird file system.) --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org