Muzman on 21/12/2013 at 06:52
Helloo!
Title pretty much sums it up.
I got a Samsung EVO, which seems pretty cool. It does its own clone thing, in theory. So I pared down my boot drive and cloned it over (supposedly).
It looks alright data wise, but bios and windows (7) don't believe you can boot from it. Now I have all these extra partitions floating around that it cloned over.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do next. Admin tools doesn't give you an option to make it a system drive. Booting from the bios results in an error and reccommends booting from the windows disk and repairing.
Booting from the windows disk and trying to repair shows no installs of windows at all! (then proceeds to boot from the old C drive like nothing happened)
There's a few free tools where you can try to force it, but they seem risky so I want to check if I'm doing the right thing (like EasyBCD )
What should I do?
Desired effect is the new SSD calls itself the C drive and boots from the OS that I cloned over to it.
nb: techs and sysadmins 'net wide have one surefire cure for everything: Format and start again from scratch with a fresh install (and rebuild your system settings, histories, passwords yadda for a month afterwards).
This will not stand! The convenience of system cloning is going to work, people. It is nearly 2014! Failure is not an option!
Al_B on 21/12/2013 at 09:32
Quote Posted by Muzman
There's a few free tools where you can try to force it, but they seem risky so I want to check if I'm doing the right thing (like EasyBCD )
I've heard good things about EasyBCD but I've not used it myself personally.
I'd suggest first unplugging all drives apart from your SSD and boot from the windows CD but choose to open the command prompt. Hopefully that will work even if it doesn't recognise your SSD as having a valid Windows installation. You should be able to use the bootrec command to sort the boot sector and MBR if that's the problem:
bootrec /FixBoot
bootrec /FixMbr
I'm not sure if you'll need to rebuild the BCD as well - (
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392) this article has the details.
bikerdude on 21/12/2013 at 13:35
Quote Posted by Muzman
I got a Samsung EVO, which seems pretty cool. It does its own clone thing, in theory. So I pared down my boot drive and cloned it over (supposedly).
It looks alright data wise, but bios and windows (7) don't believe you can boot from it. Now I have all these extra partitions floating around that it cloned over.
Quote Posted by Al_B
bootrec /FixBoot
bootrec /FixMbr
Al is spot on, you'll probably find the C partition on your SSD isn't set to active. So either use EasyBCD as Al suggested or Fire up a command prompt with admin privileges (eg right click run as administrator).
* Then type diskpart,
* and then type select disk,
* then select the correct disk,
* then type show partitions,
* then select the primary partition,
* then type make active - you should then see an asterisk next to said partition to indicate its active,
* then exit disk part and close the prompt.
* Then if you change the boot order in the bios you should be then able to boot from the ssd.
Below is the link to an easy to follow guide on how to use it -
- (
http://www.mydigitallife.info/using-diskpartexe-as-disk-management-alternative-in-windows-vista-2000-2003-and-xp/)
Muzman on 22/12/2013 at 05:21
Awesome dudes. Thanks very much.
Command line option worked a treat.
(don't mind my bitching. It is true that you can google for an hour and get little else but heavy duty IT guys whose answer is rebuild most of the time. I don't blame them but it's a bit of a job finding more specific answers sometimes)
