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Clone an external partition then boot from it?

Hi,

I have an external harddrive with Windows 8 To Go. I'd like to copy this partition to a partition on my laptop (next to the current os Windows Vista) then have a boot menu. I think bcedit needs to be changed ... if it is possible at all.

Thanks for your input.
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I am quite sure it is possible. Do it like this: get the win eight setup DVD and install a blank win 8 next to vista. Then get the trial of drive snapshot, create an image of 8togo and from within the booted blank 8, restore the Togo one over the blank. Yes, that's possible with drive snapshot. Free trial, no installation needed.
be aware that you need a license for the cloned 8
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I installed Windows 8 to a secondary partition, it starts up. However, boot menu doesn't show Vista anymore(!) How can I get this Vista menu back?
I had once done that, on a test workstation and Vista was still there afterwards, sorry for you :}
You will have too google for vista and win8 dual boot or simply take some tool like http://www.vistabootpro.org/
Did you follow the instruction I posted above?  I am running a Vista/Win8 dual boot on a whitebox that works just fine.