I am running 2 Windows 7 under an Esxi VM at a data center. I needed to increase the system disk on one of them and decided to do it by cloning the windows disk to a larger disk.
This worked fine. Except for one thing. Since I was cloning the disk I got the old bootrecord on the new disk and it pointed to the old disk. Not good.
Tried to find a program so I could change the bootrecord. Tried a few but found none that could do the job. If I remember correctly the boot record has a pointer to the disk (by number) so another idea I got was to change place between the 2 disks in VM (Like switching place of physical disks) .Even if I am good at HW and SW my competence on VM is "beginner" so I would like an opinion from someone who knows better if this is a workable solution. And if it is, how to go about it. I handle more "normal" changes on VM by accessing it from the web interface. Or if someone has experience from a program that could be used to change the info so that boot is performed from the new disk.
From a windy and a bit cold Stockolm, Sweden