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Win 7 Mirror image boot?

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October 10, 2014 4:42:43 PM

I plan on installing win 10 so I made a mirror image of win 7 on a separate drive. My question is can I boot off that the mirror on that drive? If so is it just done through rearranging the drive order in bios or other means? Just need to be safe before I install !in_10.

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a c 633 $ Windows 7
October 10, 2014 4:50:03 PM

That all depends on how and with what you made the image with.
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October 10, 2014 4:51:50 PM

There are drive image products (see http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-drive-cloning...). Making a mirror image won't do it....Once the drive is cloned, you can restore it to the original drive and boot from Windows 7. I would suggest having a spare hard drive (remove your current Windows 7 drive) and installing Windows 10 on it.
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October 10, 2014 4:53:00 PM

Remove the drive on which you are going to install Win 10. Connect the mirror image drive in its place and try to boot from it. That way you will be certain it is bootable.
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October 10, 2014 4:55:20 PM

USAFRet said:
That all depends on how and with what you made the image with.


Backup and restore in system and security. OS is on SSD but mirrors on HDD.
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a c 633 $ Windows 7
October 10, 2014 5:00:34 PM

SethS said:
USAFRet said:
That all depends on how and with what you made the image with.


Backup and restore in system and security. OS is on SSD but mirrors on HDD.


I do not think you can 'boot' from that.

As others said above, you really want to put that Win10 on some other drive.
Leave your current Win 7 where it is.
Install Win 10 on a whole other drive.
Choose which one at boot time. Or leave the Win 7 disconnected unless you need it.

On my secondary system, I have Win 7 and Win 10 dualboot in 2 partitions. But if/when something goes badly wrong...I do not care. I will wipe the whole thing and reinstall as needed.
As said, that is a fully secondary system....5 year old Toshiba laptop.
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October 10, 2014 5:02:15 PM

Adding to my above:
You did some sort of backup/mirror/image thing. Did you try it?
What happened? Did it boot properly?
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October 10, 2014 7:48:17 PM

USAFRet said:
Adding to my above:
You did some sort of backup/mirror/image thing. Did you try it?
What happened? Did it boot properly?


Nope, I guess my question is answered, It didn't recognize I had an OS installed.
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