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Cannot boot from Win 7 SATA drive on a Win 8 computer

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Here's the deal: I threw away my old computer, but kept the Windows 7 SATA drive. I bought a new computer with Windows 8, and plugged my Windows 7 drive into the next SATA slot hoping to be able to setup a dual boot mode. Of course, nothing is ever that easy. I can access the Win 7 drive through the file explorer as if it was an external HD, but it is not bootable. The disk manager lists the...

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