Dual-Boot Machine Moving To Larger SSD: Ubuntu :) Win7: X( topic

Hey guys,
I would very much appreciate if you could help me deal with a Windows 7 issue:
I am trying to clone my 60 GB SSD to a 960 GB SSD, keeping my 2x1 GB Soft-RAID. GRUB and Ubuntu 14.04.1 work straight away, Windows won't move a bit:
1) I've tried dd-ing the entire SSD and also given CloneZilla a few shots.
2) I've tried creating the partition table with the Win 7 install DVD and overwriting the individual partitions.
3) I've tried to simply install Windows on the SSD, while there was only one large NTFS partition.

Neither of these got me anywhere for my ambitions to start Windows, while the first two worked nicely with Ubuntu. I've used boot-repair to find out what is wrong, but cannot read anything from the results:
1) http://paste.ubuntu.com/10128323/ (Plain copy, three partitions)
2) http://paste.ubuntu.com/10130074/ (Windows wanted a 100 MB startup partition)

When booting from a 14.04.1 live USB stick, the new SSD seems to alternately show up as sda and sdc. When trying to install Windows on the empty drive, the install fails after the first reboot, as it cannot find a bootable system (blinking cursor), after it has installed the basic files.

What other input do you need to make sense of my case? What else should I try?

Thanks,
Jetjockey

[UbuntuGnome] UEFI dual-boot grub/boot menu issues topic

Probably not the best title but bear with me while I explain what's going on. I was recently gifted an Intel DB43LD mobo to perform UEFI dual/multi-boot iso-testing. It's a bit long-in-the-tooth (circa 2009) but it'll suffice until I can afford something newer.

So I started by installing Windows 8.1 Enterprise edition in UEFI mode on a GPT formatted drive:

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I then installed Ubuntu GNOME Trusty in UEFI mode (or at least I think I did based on the live boot menu appearance - black background with white print):

Gpart_dual_boot.jpg

But when I rebooted the box it went right into Windows without displaying any grub menu. I knew though from browsing the BIOS settings previously that pressing F10 would display a boot menu which is a new trick for me so I looked at that boot menu (sadly I didn't think of snapping a pic) but Ubuntu was NOT shown there either.

Next I decided to run Boot Repair using the Trusty live DVD and I was smart enough to grab a boot info summary before trying an actual repair:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/10048056/

I then ran Boot Repair which did end up working (at least partly) and I grabbed another post-repair boot info summary:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/10048113/

Sadly the box still booted straight into Windows but I rebooted again and pressed F10 to display the BIOS boot menu and Ubuntu was now there:

boot_menu.JPG

And if I select Ubuntu the GRUB menu appears and it will boot either Ubuntu GNOME or Windows:

grub_menu.JPG

So it's at least partly fixed but I'd like it to boot Ubuntu Gnome without having to hit F10 and selecting Ubuntu from the BIOS boot menu. Is that possible?

More importantly what went wrong? I thought after several hours of browsing and reading that it was this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...y/+bug/1050940

But shortly after commenting there and reporting it on the QA iso testing tracker it was marked as a duplicate and I now have serious doubts. So I'm a bit lost.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm sure I'll have many more questions as I try to learn the whole UEFI process.

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