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Jan 9, 2017
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Hi! My machine is an old mid-2010 MacBook Pro running 10.10.5. I recently had an SSD installed and used that as my new boot drive while I had my old HDD w a Windows 7 partition in it still intact. I migrated and deleted all the OSX content from my old HDD to my SSD. Restarted and held down the "option" key but the Windows partition won't show.



Basically, I know I kinda messed up something up by deleting *everything* on my old HDD's OSX partition. Is there any way I can remedy the situation and have my Windows partition bootable again?
 

chscag

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You'll need to reinstall Windows 7 using the Boot Camp assistant. When you migrated from your old HDD to the new SSD, the Windows 7 partition and data was lost. You should have used WinClone to image (copy) your Windows 7 partition and then reinstate it on the new SSD.
 

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macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jan 9, 2017
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You'll need to reinstall Windows 7 using the Boot Camp assistant. When you migrated from your old HDD to the new SSD, the Windows 7 partition and data was lost. You should have used WinClone to image (copy) your Windows 7 partition and then reinstate it on the new SSD.

I still have my old HDD, windows partition and all, internally. I can still access the Win7 partition from Finder, Disk Utility, and Bootcamp Assistant.

I really dont want to reinstall Windows cos of how much a hassle it has been because I don't have a Superdrive and that's what my machine is telling me to do
 
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