Is it possible to copy an active windows 7 partition to a small hd make it bootable?

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paulcheung

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Hi all,
I have a situation here. I have this laptop with an unstable hard drive. I want to copy the windows 7 partition to a smaller hard drive and make it bootable, I want to use the small drive for the time being until I got a replacement hard drive. Is it possible? I don't want to reinstall windows 7 on this smaller drive because it have to download a lot outdated drivers.
Thank you.
Paul
 
Can't copy(copying wouldn't make it bootable), you would have to clone the drive, which if its a drive issue, wouldn't recommend that at all.
 
To clone a hardrive for free, i used "Acronis True Image" available for free online.
I cloned a failing harddrive to a good harddrive and it doesnt take long.
 
In the computer world,EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE.There are no limitations.The only limit is the knowledge.Remember that ;)

And yes of course it's possible to do what you are asking.There are MANY ways to do that,but the easiest one for you is to simply clone the hard disk drive of your laptop to other formatted hard disk drive.



Cheers!
 
Cloning generally requires the target drive to be as large if not larger than the source drive. You may be able to go to a smaller drive providing the used space on the source drive is smaller than the target drive.
 
That is the problem, the source disk is larger than the target drive. even if I delete some file and shrink the partition, I still can't clone the drive. copy partitions don't make it bootable. I am stuck.
:mad:
 
how do you know that the harddrive is bad?
maybe its windows thats messing up, before buying a new harddrive why not reistall windows
 
have cloned the drive back from the original two times and do 1 time clean installation. windows check disk report alot of bad sectors. so.
 
yes but when its formated,you will mark not to use the bad sectors and so windows could be used on it until you get a new drive.
 
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