Win7 64-bit PE Builds.

I found an interesting situation in which a 64-bit PE build seems required.

We bought several Dell E4200 laptops with 64GB SSDs and Win7 Pro x64. The disks are too small. So we're replacing them with 128GB SSDs. I use Ghost to make an image of the old disk and transfer it to the new disk. The result fails to boot.

The BCD is in a small restore partition rather than the main partition.

Windows 7 Restore Disk x64 won't fix it. MS-DART 6.5 x64 won't fix it.  Win7PE x86 won't fix it. But fire up Win7PE x64 and run MS Recovery TOols | Startup Repair (Win7) and it's fixed immediately.

I ..... understand now  I Think

@ John I had same problem on a WD 1T ghosted drive, I only build x64 builds and I also found Dart 6.5 would not work
Thanks for confirming this

Interesting that Dart not help in such case 



Here is small present for PE x64 user 

Still  but so far stable

Shutdown_x64.script


Please report, in case it crash explorer.exe or any other process that uses shutdown functionality.

 

I was really surprised that DART couldn't fix it. 

Dart has same files , as 64bit PE , for startup recovery . it basically does not make any sense. but still , there might be some difference , when you applied both ./?