clone hdd to ssd on windows8 asus notebook, cannot invoke restore via f9
currently using ati 2013 + pp and the secure disk hotfix
the scenario is ghosting from a 500gb hdd to a 240gb ssd
i'll boot the ati bootable media, choose to clone the disk from the hdd to the ssd
the cloning process will finish fine and will boot straight off the ssd immediately.
the problem is when i go to invoke the restore/troubleshoot functions of windows8 via the f9 key on boot up i end up getting a bsod with error 0xc0000225 and from thereon i'm unable to get into the desktop until i reclone the hdd back on to the ssd.
anyone have any similar problems? i've tried it on many units with no luck, swapped out hard disks and nothing
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cheers for that, will give it a shot and report back soon
forgot to mention, the notebook only takes a single disk
the ssd is replacing the hdd
the current setup is the ssd is where the 500gb used to be, and i've attached the 500gb via usb
doing a straight clone from the 500gb to the 240gb gets me into windows but i cannot invoke the f9 recovery screen
update: the first method; cloned okay and booted into the os successfully as usual. plopped in the windows8 disc and started an automatic repair though as mentioned the system booted up fine so there was no errors to report
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just to follow up on this, tried both methods with the same results unfortunately :(
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vin du:
Did F9 ever allow you to invoke Windows 8 recovery? I thought Microsoft had disabled access to recovery via Fn keys at boot time since there is only a 0.25 second wide window in which to press the key. On most Windows 8 PCs that I've seen you can only access recovery through the Settings menu in the new Start screen, under PC Settings, General, Advanced Startup.
Does your PC have UEFI firmware? Or, is it one with the older BIOS system?
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I might be sticking my neck out here but maybe my comments might help as I have an Asus Zenbook which may have a similar set up on the 500GB HDD and F9 recovery. This recovery partition is made up by Asus using Windows diskpart.exe in part with other bits of software and only returns the PC back to initial status, with all the partitions exactly as they were (good for selling on). I found it best to reproduce Asus's recovery onto DVDs so that in the event of a total HDD failure a new HDD could be set up once again. But I suspect this is no good if the HDD or SSD is smaller in size because the software does not resize the partitions.
It seems important to follow Grover's links if you are going to a smaller SSD resizing partitions etc, keeping the System and Recovery partition sizes exactly as they were. But there's going to be a problem with the recovery partition - how can it perform a recovery if the SSD is smaller? Would you really want to go back to initial at this stage? In your case in my opinion it would be better to just backup without the recovery partition.
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