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A couple days ago, I tried cloning my Windows Vista drive in preparation for upgrading to Windows 7. Something went wrong though, and my original drive wouldn’t boot anymore because of the infamous winload.exe. So I got rushed into upgrading to Windows 7 earlier and unprepared. But luckily, to a large degree I was prepared:…

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My Windows Vista Home Premium installation was on one of the Seagate 7200.11 drives with the bad firmware, so I’ve been trying to do something about it for a while now. This weekend I used SelfImage to copy my installation from one drive to another via my windows XP machine. After 12 hours of waiting…

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