Recovering full image of Windows 10 onto a different SSD

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Looking to create a dual boot system with two internal SSDs located in different internal SATA ports. Both bootable ports. Lenovo M82 with intel i5. TI 2015 Build 6613 fershly installed yesterday downloaded from Acronis web-site. Upgraded to 64 bit Win 10 Pro over 64 bit Win 7 Pro. Win 10 working fine. Also downloaded and burned the 6613 ISO bootable media onto a DVD. Made a full back-up of Win 10 OS and programs from Samsung SSD in internal SATA port onto an external USB hard-drive. Then tried to recover using the bootable media DVD that full Samsung image onto a slightly smaller freshly formatted working fine Kingston SSD in a different internal SATA port. Screen capture from Disk Management attached shows layout of the Kingston drive after recovery. When I boot from the Kingston drive I get a blue Win 10 icon, a little blue dotted moving circle for a moment, and then the screen goes dark. I also found it very difficult to get rid of the 450 MB recovery section when trying to reformat the Kingston drive, and start from scratch. An ATA secure erase using Parted Magic didn't do it. Any sugguestions on a simple way to delete the 450MB partition? Maybe not even install it from the full image during recovery? I had to do a recovery of a TI 2013 full image of win 7 to allow me to get rid of that section. Unable to do it with Disk management. Only "help" appears as an option when right-clicking with disk management.

If I use the same 6613 DVD bootable media to recover a full image of the Samsung SSD created with TI 2013, with windows 7 on it, onto the Kingston SSD, then everything works fine, and I can boot Windows 7 from the Kingston drive located in it's SATA port, where it wouldn't work with Win 10. I can also boot from the Samsung SSD with win 7 on it located in the other SATA port

Any suggestions on what I need to do to get Win 10 working on the Kingston drive?

 

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Wed, 08/03/2016 - 14:26
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Got things working finally. Have no idea what caused the problems. A mystery. Many variables and not sure which steps mattered. Started from scratch with a recovery of a working fine Win 7 full back-up onto the Samsung SSD. Then unlike before, uninstalled TI 2013 including all of the remaining files and folders that were not removed in the uninstall process. Then upgraded with Win 10 and then used a TI 2015 bootable media DVD downloaded ISO from Acronis web-site to make a full image of that. Recovery of that full image onto the freshly formatted Kingston SSD worked fine. Then downloaded TI 2015 exe install and installed that. Back-up with the TI program console and recovery with USB bootable media, created after program install, worked fine also. The only remaining variable remaining is the removal of the old Win 7 files and folders using Disk Clean-up of System Files.

If anyone knows a simple way of deleting the 450 MB partition created by Win 10 install then please let me know. Formating or Disk Management can't get rid of it, even after the rest of the drive has all software deleted/formatted.

Thanks!!

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 23:10