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Okay I have two partitions on my SSD Windows 7 and Windows 10 I used Magic Partition to copy the Windows 10 partition to a new SSD and it wont load pass a black screen with a mouse courser with a spinning blue circle icon it sits there for hours with nothing only way to stop it is to hold the power button in.  Ive tried everything, windows 10 startup repair, says it cant fix it, command prompt with bootrec options, says element not found.  Im at a loss……what to do?  I really don’t want to reinstall Windows 10 I have too many things installed on the OS.  Please help

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Can you copy just a partition without  the boot sector as well?

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Rock,

Please open Disk Management and post a screen shot showing your disk.

What Multi-Boot software are you using, e.g. EasyBCD, Windows, or some other one?

If you truly have only 2 partitions the Win 7 partition is most likely the Bootable Partition containing the boot manager that allows you to get to 10.

HTH :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

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@therock9378 ideally it should look something along these lines:https://www.askwoody.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Aomei-SC-part-02-03-18.png
If its a x64 UEFI arrangement, if your primary OS is Win7 it normally creates just two system partitions. I nearly always use Win10 as the primary OS, the theory being its backwards compatible for running recovery CMD’s etc whereas Win10 wasnt even thought about when Win7 was brought out. Its just a thought without seeing your screenshot but did you BOOT from a USB stick or enter WINRE F8 at boot if I recall for Win7, hit SHIFT+F10 with BOOT media at first screen and at the x:prompt type (for a dual OS set up)
BCDBOOT D:WINDOWS (assuming that’s your new partition)
BCDBOOT C:WINDOWS (rewrites the primary partition in to the BCD base as default to boot first)
but you must have the system partitions there in the first place and at least containing a working BCD base. i.e. one OS at least can boot.
PS highly likely Win disk utility wont show the full state of affairs that’s why I normally use a 3rd party like Aomei etc

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This page may have some useful info, as the person seems to be having the same error (element not found when you try the usual bootrec.exe options)… specifically, the bit that I am thinking may be helpful is:

Type each of these from the command prompt:

diskpart

LIST DISK

SELECT DISK (followed by the number of the disk. most likely 0)

LIST PARTITION

SELECT PARTITION (followed by your partition number. most likely 0)

ACTIVE

EXIT

Windows startup recovery should now work.

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You only need to make a partition active on an MBR machine. UEFI doesn’t care about disk status.

cheers, Paul

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I take it that by UEFI, you mean a GPT setup (which is the most correct way, since GPT is part of the UEFI spec), but it is also possible to use a MBR partition scheme with a UEFI PC.

The error cited by the OP suggested a MBR setup according to the reading I did on the topic, though it is by no means comprehensive.  I just reread the thread, and nothing in it states which kind of setup this is, whether GPT or MBR.  I guess that would be a good question to ask!

UEFI setups can be a can of worms to deal with, as the implementations are so varied and often so buggy or incomplete that it’s even more frustrating than it should be.  Not that it necessarily should be frustrating at all, but somehow it usually is anyway with computers.

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Okay I have two partitions on my SSD Windows 7 and Windows 10 I used Magic Partition to copy the Windows 10 partition to a new SSD and it wont load pass a black screen with a mouse courser with a spinning blue circle icon …

I think we need more information about your setup on your SSD that has your original two OS’s (how are you multi-booting your two OS’s), and how you are trying to copy your Win 10 on that SSD to the new SSD.

Looks like you’re trying to accomplish what’s called a *bare metal* transfer of your existing Win10 to a newly installed SSD.

There are ways to do this–might require some software designed to help with this (perhaps a third party boot manager), some editing of the boot information, and/or some additional partitioning on the new SSD–but, we need more information.

Are you still with us–or did you succeed on your own, and have moved on?

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Thank you everybody for you help!!!

I figured it out it was a display issue, I had to boot into safe mode, totally uninstall the the graphics driver and card (EVGA GTX 970), then turn on the integrated graphics in the bios, reboot and reinstall the graphic card.

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