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I bought a 500 GB (6-Gbit per second) SATA SSD to move my Windows 7 64-bit partition (and the 100 MB BCD partition) from a HDD. As that HDD has other partitions that I want to keep, the old HDD is not going to be removed.

Once new SSD was plugged into the motherboard and Win7 booted, I created a 100 MB primary partition on the SSD. Then I used CloneZilla ONLY to clone the BCD partition and the Windows 7 (C:) partition into the new SSD and changed the BIOS to boot from the new SSD disk.

The partitions are

  SSD:   [sdc1] BCD    [sdc2] \Windows
  HDD:   [sda1] BCD    [sda2] \Windows    [sda3] G:

But now the system boots from the new 100 MB BCD partition sdc1 (that is fine) but Windows 7 is started from the old HDD partition sda2, not from the cloned SDD one sdc2. In fact, the new Windows partition (sdc2) is labeled as H:

I did not manage to rename the Windows C: disk partition.

I guess the BCD partition keeps the UUID (or similar) of the partition which Windows boots from, but I'm not familiar with it.

How can I make Windows 7 to boot from sdc2?
Is it just a Windows relabelling disk issue?

Thanks in advance

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    The UUIDs of the old partitions are still in the Windows registry.
    – sawdust
    Commented Aug 31, 2018 at 6:47
  • A 6 GB SSD isn’t large enough to install Windows. So what size is it?
    – Ramhound
    Commented Aug 31, 2018 at 12:09
  • No, it is not a 6 Gbyte SSD. It's a 500 GB with a 6 Gigabit per second SATA interface.
    – Jdamian
    Commented Aug 31, 2018 at 12:42
  • @Ramhound - Question text corrected
    – Jdamian
    Commented Aug 31, 2018 at 12:43
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    You really don't need to indicate more than its a SATA III device, the specifications of SATA III, should be presumed to be known.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Aug 31, 2018 at 14:09

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