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tried to rebuild old 75gb drive onto new 475gb drive for laptop - used gparted to partition new drive similar to old drive but bigger partitions, then used G4L (ghost for linux) to backup old drive partitions as lsop images, then restore images to each partition on new drive. wouldn't boot at all afterwards - just blinking cursor.

So, installed MX linux onto new partition (sda6 logical partition) which got it's grub version installed, used it to boot into ubuntu and used ubuntu boot repair and got ubuntu boot menu back. Boots into ubuntu and MX fine, but win 7 now shows up as on sda1 (my recovery and boot partition) and sda2 (where win 7 system files, etc. actually are)- choosing sda2's win7 just ends up at blinking cursor, and sda1's win7 gets error message saying boot off of win7 install cd (that I don't have)... How do I get win 7 to boot again off grub?!?

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Got the SATA to USB adapter today - plugged my laptop's new hard drive into it. Used G4L's Click'n Clone to clone my laptop's old internal hard drive to it. Next, used Ununtu 20.04lts disc to boot and run gparted - deleted all partitions past the win7 sda2 partition, then resized sda2 from 30Gb to 100Gb. Then made the other partitions (50Gb for Edrive sda3, 100Gb for Ubuntu sda5, 120Gb for future linux sad6 - maybe Fedora or MX, and the remaining 75Gb for maybe another win partition in future sda7). Rebooted to G4L and dumped my lzop backups for Edrive (data) and Ubuntu 20.04lts. Back to gparted to fix (check) the restored backup to use the whole new partition size. Finally put the new hard drive in replacing the old one - and win7 glitched and had to use 'last known good config' to get it back and works good now... Ubuntu came up w/o issue - happy camper!!!

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