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I copied all the contents of a hard drive to another. It wont boot of it though. I need it to. I deleted a partition and used a data recovery, The files i copied were the recovered ones. It recovered EVERY file.

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    How do you know that it recovered every file, and that the contents of every file are correct? Jul 12, 2013 at 22:23
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    Did you try the things mentioned in your previous post? superuser.com/questions/616963/computer-wont-boot-to-windows
    – dtmland
    Jul 12, 2013 at 22:30
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    If you copied all of the content on the old drive to the new, the computer would boot off the new as it did off the old. I take it you want some help with getting the computer to boot from the new drive, but right now there is nothing for us to go on in diagnosing this problem. Please edit your question and describe how you copied the files, what the state of the new drive is now, and what error messages (if any) you are receiving and at what point. Right now, I'd say this question is unanswerable; strictly speaking, it isn't even a question.
    – user
    Jul 12, 2013 at 22:31
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    Did you copy or clone your drive? The two are very different...
    – nerdwaller
    Jul 12, 2013 at 22:33
  • @nerdwaller copy Jul 12, 2013 at 22:42

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You will find (possibly among other problems) that it did not reinstall the boot sector, which is not a file, but the bit at the very beginning of the disk which tells the system how to boot. You will, at minimum, need to restore the boot loader (ie MBR). You did not advise an OS, so its difficult to provide more accurate information, but you should be able to Google "install bootloader [OS]" in Google to get the answer on how to do this for your OS.

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  • The OP mentioning Device Manager and a Windows partition in comments points pretty strongly toward an NT-based version of Windows.
    – user
    Jul 13, 2013 at 9:58

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