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Is it possible to copy all Windows 7 files from one HD to another and boot from the new HD?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202645007 views
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Well, the hard-drive on my laptop died (it was displaying "SMART failure prediction -- Hard-disk Drive dailure might be imminant). So I took it out and hooked it up to an external enclosure and copied all the files (system files and personal files, hidden and visible) off of it to another computer.…

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Fix for: Is it possible to copy all Windows 7 files from one HD to another and boot from the new HD?

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There is a lot more to booting an operating system than simply having a bunch of files on the disk. There's a reserved bunch of blocks at the start of the disk that contain some special boot instructions which tell the computer how to boot. If your …

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