If dst is in VHD, set bcddrive to active partition of the host disk containing dst. Set appropriate value for src and dst in clone7.bat. Open clone7.bat in notepad or other text editor.You can increase its screen buffer size by right-click title bar, select Properties, Layout page. Psexec.exe -s -i -d cmdWhen you run this shortcut as administrator, it will open cmd.exe running as SYSTEM account. from another Windows Vista/7 (not on source partition) Get Sysinternal PsExec.Boot from Windows 7 DVD and press Shift+F10 to run cmd.exe.Open cmd.exe running as SYSTEM account.Write names of unwanted files and directories in cloneexclude.txt and save in the same directory.Save clone7.bat in some working directory.The clone will use more disk space than source. Note : This copy method using xcopy does not create hard links. Disconnect SATA disk and put in USB disk enclosure.Ĭlone Windows 7 from IDE/SATA to USB hard disk Pro: Increase chance of successful boot when move to different machines.
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It will set all known disk controller drivers to Start=0. Reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v DisablePagingExecutive /t REG_DWORD /d 1 This setting may help prevents USB drivers code from being paged out.ĭriver's data are not affected by this settings, so ther is still some possibility that USB drivers will fail when in low memory state. Use diskpart to mark partition as active (if it is not the only partition in the computer), Boot from Windows 7 setup DVD (or other media),Ĭreate a partition in SATA (if not already created),.You can create a new partition and mark it as active partition before boot from Windows 7 DVD This tutorial is result of discussion in this thread -> Boot Windows 7 from USB hard disk (Search for NT 6.x fast installer, BootDriverFlags, PollBootPartitionTimeout.) It is now considered obsolete since there exist better ways.