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A few weeks ago I put a bootcamp partition on my 320gb HDD in my mbp early 2009. However, a few days ago I bough me a 1tb hdd and exchanged it. Of course, I don't really want to re-install windows all over again, and just "copy" over my installed version.

After installing OS X I created a bootcamp partition and rebooted. I put my old HDD in a chassi and booted up into recovery-mode for OS X. Here I used the disk utility to "restore" the USB Bootcamp partition to the new Bootcamp partition. Now, when I boot, I can boot to the bootcamp partition, but as soon as it is boots I get the Missing operating system error.

I tried booting from the original windows 7 disk and choose repair, but get the message that I cannot repair the current version of windows since its not the same version.

How can I solve this, without reinstalling windows?

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  • With both the old drive and the new one attached, can you please open a Terminal window and add the output from running these commands to your question: diskutil list - check what your new and old disk are called, let's assume disk0 and disk1, then run: sudo gpt -r show disk0, sudo gpt -r show disk1, sudo fdisk /dev/disk0, sudo fdisk /dev/disk1. This tells us the OSX and Windows partition tables on both disks, and might give us a clue as to where to start fixing – pmdj Sep 13 '12 at 17:45
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Well.. unfortunately... I didn't got it working. So, I ended up making a new partition for windows and re-installing it. Too bad I wasted so much time.

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