Clone Solid State Drive Windows 7 64 bit
Hello,
A few weeks ago, I successfully cloned a non ssd 160GB SATA 2.5" HDD to a 250GB SATA SSD. The original HDD had Windows 8 64 bit on. Everything worked flawlessly and the SSD was booting up extremely fast and all was well. Note : I used "Automatic Mode"
Today, I tried to clone a Windows 7 system, to SSD and it completed, but when booting up the unit with the SSD, it gave "non system disk" error. I checked the partitions and compared them to the original, but everything was the same.
I tried the various fixes (bootrec, diskpart, Windows 7 Automatic Repair) but none worked. The old drive works flawlessly, even ran chkdsk on it. Now the interesting (or uninteresting) part of the clone is that this Windows 7 partition style is GPT and not MBR. My Windows 7 is MBR for example.
Now the question of the day : What can I do, to ensure that the clone for this Windows 7 standard hard drive to the solid state hard drive runs just as perfect as on the Windows 8 clone I did a few weeks ago ??
There's so much you didn't tell us.
- Did you clone from the Rescue Media (recommended), or from Windows?
- Where were the source and target drives, and how were they connected?
- Is the source disk GPT? Was it originally GPT (unusual with Windows 7), or did you change it?
- Were both drives connected when the system rebooted?
James,
As MVP Tuttle indicated, there is much to guess.
1. Note the attachment link.
For your information. Perform the DiskPart commands on both the old and new disks of theWin 8 system
2. Also perform the same commands on the Win7 GPT disk and also do the same commands on the SSD disk when completed. The purpose of this test to to assure that the partition sequence was restored on the targets in the same partitioin sequence as the source.
http://forum.acronis.com/system/files/resize/mvp/user285/misc/show-disk…
3.There is also an updated version of the 2013 Recovery CD which can be downloaded from your Acronis web account. The downloadable ISO is different than the same version created from the installed version. This is a downloadable ISO file. Once downloaded,
right click on the filename and choose the "open with" Windows Disk Image Burner. This will enable you to burn the file as an image and create a new CD. Use this for your next test.
4. Before your next test, you should use the DISKPART clean command on the Win7 SSD so all the botched data/partitions are removed.
5. Use the new TI Recovery CD to perform your next clone or restore--whatever you are doing.
6. Target disk should be placed inside the computer on same connectors as original.
7. First boot following clone or restore should be only with the disk attached. If clone and source both attached, you could ruin either or both as both identical.