Install Vista/7 boot loader to the MBR does what it says, and is for putting Vista/7 back in control if your boot has been overwritten by XP or Linux.
This has been driving me bonkersĬreate bootable external media is for making a bootable flashdrive for example, not your OS. Should I use this instead of going through the steps in my first question above to solve my problem, or not? When I click on the "BCD Backup/Repair", under the "BCD Management Options" section is a radio button labeled "Change Boot Drive". Will clicking the "Write MBR" button overwrite the MBR on drive C: (which I don't want to happen), or will it overwrite the MBR on drive F: (the same drive/partition that I chose in the "Create Bootable External Media" section)?Ģ. But under the "MBR Configuration Options", after I choose the "Install the Windows Vista/7 bootloader to the MBR", the big red button just says "Write MBR" - but it doesn't show where the MBR will be written to. Under the "Create Bootable External Media" section is a dropdown box that allows me to choose which partition to make bootable (in my case I chose "Partition 1: F:\ as NTFS - 558 GiB"). When I click on the "BCD Deployment" button, there are two sections: "Create Bootable External Media" and "MBR Configuration Options". I was told to get EasyBCD 2.1 to solve this. Although the destination drive (the 2.5" notebook drive) now has all the files from the original drive on it, when I stick it into my laptop, it does not boot. So now I have two drives: the first (original) drive with partitions C: and D:, and the cloned drive, with partitions F: and G. I've cloned the Windows Vista Home Premium installation from my laptop's HDD to another 2.5" notebook drive (connected to my laptop via a USB-to-SATA adaptor for now, will be swapped into my notebook later).