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March 4th 10, 10:42 AM
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How do I use bcdedit to boot from old Vista harddrive on eSata port?
I bought a new hd for my existing laptop which had Vista Ultimate on it.
I removed the Vista hd and fixed it in an eSata enclosure, then loaded Windows 7 on new hd I successfully created dualboot on new hd with Windows 2008 R2 vhd, using bcdedit (with clear instructions from a colleague) I hoped to add third boot option using bcdedit for the eSata drive so that I could use my existing Vista drive. I used thhese commands: bcdedit /copy {current} /d "Vista on E drive" bcdedit /set newid device partition=E: bcdedit /set newid osdevice partition=E: When I select this boot option, Vista tries to repair itself, then fails. What am I doing something wrong? Supplementary question : Can I turn the Vista drive into a VHD file? Then I could move this to my new hd.... 
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