I bought Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack upgrade version (licensed for use on up to 3 PCs) for use on a HTPC I was building. I managed to get it activated without having a previous version installed by installing it on a second partition without activating it then installing it again on the 1st partition then activating that version.
This was what was recommended if you didn't have a original install of Windows for the upgrade to work with and didn't want to do a double install on the same hard drive partition and the registry hack didn't work and Microsoft wouldn't activate it over the phone.
Now when I boot my HTPC I'm presented with a boot menu where I have to choose which partition and installation of Win 7 to boot from. If I let the boot menu time out I end up booting from the activated Win 7 on the 1st partition which was installed after the Win 7 on the second partition.
My problem is that I want to transfer the copy of Win 7 on the 1st partition to a SSD. When I did this by backing up the 1st partition with a imaging program (O&O DriveImage 5.0) then restoring it onto the SSD (Kingston 64 GB) I find that the SSD wont boot.
DriveImage pops up a dialog box when restoring a image of a bootable partition and I did notice that it did not do so when I restored the image of Win 7 taken from the 1st partition onto the SSD. I'm thinking that somehow the part of Win 7 needed to boot wasn't in the 1st partition because of the boot menu.
How do I get the Win 7 in the 1st partition to be bootable so I can do a image backup of it and transfer it to the SSD?
This was what was recommended if you didn't have a original install of Windows for the upgrade to work with and didn't want to do a double install on the same hard drive partition and the registry hack didn't work and Microsoft wouldn't activate it over the phone.
Now when I boot my HTPC I'm presented with a boot menu where I have to choose which partition and installation of Win 7 to boot from. If I let the boot menu time out I end up booting from the activated Win 7 on the 1st partition which was installed after the Win 7 on the second partition.
My problem is that I want to transfer the copy of Win 7 on the 1st partition to a SSD. When I did this by backing up the 1st partition with a imaging program (O&O DriveImage 5.0) then restoring it onto the SSD (Kingston 64 GB) I find that the SSD wont boot.
DriveImage pops up a dialog box when restoring a image of a bootable partition and I did notice that it did not do so when I restored the image of Win 7 taken from the 1st partition onto the SSD. I'm thinking that somehow the part of Win 7 needed to boot wasn't in the 1st partition because of the boot menu.
How do I get the Win 7 in the 1st partition to be bootable so I can do a image backup of it and transfer it to the SSD?
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