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Cannot recover/clone to OCZ SSD

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I'm trying to replace my HDD in my laptop with an OCZ Vertex 3 SSD. The existing HDD is an 320GB Hitachi. I've tried several ways to do this but it always end up in the SSD is not selectable either as recovery destination or as clone destination.

I have tried with the SSD in the laptop and the HDD connected to USB and vice verse. I also tried putting both disks in my desktop computer with same result. I have made a backup of my laptop HDD and recovered it to another HDD placed in my desktop computer with succesful result.

The SSD is smaller, 120GB, but I was expecting to be able to shrink the partition on the HDD when doing a recover. But either the SSD is greyed out or TIH says that there is not enough space. There is not more that 90GB data on the HDD, so it should be able to fit on the SSD.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

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Most likely, you will need to reduce the amount of used space on the source hard drive and then do a new backup.

Your best chance of success is to put the SSD inside the laptop and use the 2012 TI bootable CD to do the restore or clone. My suggestion would be to do the restore and restore each partition manually so user has control over the size and sequence of the partitions being created.

Have you looked at your source disk from within Windows Disk Management graphical view so you know all the info you need as to how many partitions are being restored and their position, sizes and which partition is the active partition. As setups vary, you may or ma not have all this but your posting does not specify which Windows OS is involved.

TI will balk if there are disk errors. You may want to check the source for errors before doing the next backup.

What type laptop?

Sorry, forgot to mention it is XP SP3 and a Fujitsu Celsius H270 laptop. There is only one partition and I did try the bootable CD. The backup I did with the CD was succesfully recovered to another HDD using my desktop. I also tried putting the SSD in the laptop and used the bootable CD, but the SSD is greyed out.

I don't get any messages about disk errors.

Will do another chkdsk and try another backup.

Any chance you could attach the SSD to a desktop connector and do the restore using the same method which succeeded on the other disk? You would not have to mount the ssd with screws--jut keep it from falling, or shorting out, etc.

This might work on your brand as it is does not have special disk geometry like the IBM.

It the restore works. attach ssd to laptop and only boot with the ssd attached.