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  • Both Lilo and Gparted can definitely be used to fix partition tables for Windows. My mistake was to do it while the drive was in GPT. Maybe even cloning to GPT drive was not right. Anyway, I can see I won't find an answer here. Thank you for your attention.
  • New drive is bigger. I had SSD previously, and I bought new computer with HDD. It was cheaper than laptop with SSD, and decent hard drive is working "ok" with old laptop in terms of performance.I copied all partitions one by one to HDD using "EaseUS todo backup free", which was back then partitioned in GPT. Then I had to…
  • I have already converted it to MBR.
  • I'm not sure how to make it clear, and it's very important - new computer doesn't matter here. Everything happens on old computer - Acer 5741G and two hard drives. Second one was formely partitioned in GPT. Now I switched it to MBR, so everything should be fine. Here is where I'm guessing. I tried to fix patritions when…
  • New laptop doesn't matter. I cloned recovery and Windows partition to another drive. It should be fine, but a new drive was in GPT, old in MBR. I tried to fix boot while it was in GPT, that's why there is a problem now. Just computer doesn't recognize these partitions as bootable anymore. Fix should be possible, but…
  • Thank you for an answer.Unfortunately it's completely not what I asked for... To clarify my question, I probably have messed up the partiton table on that drive, so it doesn't wanna boot no matter what do I do in BIOS. The question (I think) is about how to manage flags for boot partition, how to setup proper MBR, how…
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