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Well, there were errors reported on the restore. When I booted it said that this was not a genuine windows install. Guess we're back to doing a full Windows install off the install disk!
Did you try rebooting into Windows again, perhaps even try a safe boot? I did get that "not genuine" once, and it resolved itself by rebooting. I have used WinClone many, many times with both Windows 7 and Windows 8 with great success to hard disks, SSDs, internal & external.
I have also found I can only have one instance of Windows on the computer at a time, but I see you removed the old disk.
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You might look around in the "Windows" forum here for suggestions on dealing with that error. You may have to call Microsoft to resolve it ... or try a fresh install.
Is your original a retail, oem, download, or student version? Win7 or Win8
That's a painfully slow process, but may be your quickest solution in the end to get rid of that error. Plus, Windows always seems to run better after a fresh install ... gets rid of all the cobwebs in the registry.
Don't forget to download the drivers to a USB thumb drive from the Bootcamp Assistant first.
Good luck...
It's a very easy-to-use program, but you have to follow the rules:
1. before making your 1st clone make sure you do a checkdisk;
2. make sure you're NOT running any 3rd party NTSF for Mac drivers, because the drivers will lock the drive;
3. Shrink your bootcamp partition before cloning to reduce the size of your image;
4. Expand the bootcamp partition filesystem before booting your bootcamp partition agian!
Enjoy your wincloning! ~ compute with confidence
Cheers
It's a very easy-to-use program, but you have to follow the rules:
1. before making your 1st clone make sure you do a checkdisk;
2. make sure you're NOT running any 3rd party NTSF for Mac drivers, because the drivers will lock the drive;
3. Shrink your bootcamp partition before cloning to reduce the size of your image;
4. Expand the bootcamp partition filesystem before booting your bootcamp partition agian!
Enjoy your wincloning! ~ compute with confidence
Cheers
Ok, everything seems to work fine till I go to restore. I get the message....Expanding File System Failed at the end of the restore. Any suggestions? This while restoring to a brand new 2 TB DRIVE which had all blocks zeroed.