Problem restoring image of an old HD to new SSD using Macrium Reflect

Boot with original Windows 7 DVD. Select "repair your computer". After repair fails, click : "View diagostics details". Which test has status code not equal to 0x0 (which means success)?

anne1982 said:

an image restore

Answer #8
Sure the SSD partition is a primary partition and marked ACTIVE?

anne1982 said:

Kaktussoft said:

anne1982 said:

an image restore

Answer #8
Sure the SSD partition is a primary partition and marked ACTIVE?

Yes, I am Sure the SSD partition is a primary partition and marked ACTIVE.

Boot with win7 install dvd and enter command prompt Command Prompt at Startup

Code:

DIR C:\
DIR D:\

C: is the SSD? If sure:

Code:

attrib  -h  -s  c:\boot\bcd
del c:\boot\bcd

Command succesful? If so reboot to dvd and do a startup repair.

anne1982 said:

Kaktussoft said:

Boot with original Windows 7 DVD. Select "repair your computer". After repair fails, click : "View diagnostics details". Which test has status code not equal to 0x0 (which means success)?

Yes, I did it but what further? what can I do with the codes?

Normally it does some tests that ares succesfully so end in 0x0. Then a test fails ... it tries to repair. If repair fails... it stops.


So.... Which test has status code not equal to 0x0? And what is the statuscode?

GeneO said:

anne1982 said:

Hi,

My old HD had a partition which contains all the C: drive i.e. O.S., my documents, Downloads etc…

The whole C drive has one partition (BTW the physical drive is 1 TB which is divided into 2 partition ( C of about 450 GB and D of about 500 GB).
The size of the Macrium image on the external HD is 44 GB
The size of the (New SSD is Samsung 840 pro 240 GB)
I tried to copy the whole partition of the old HD into the SSD but I couldn’t. I got error message from Macrium that the original (source) partition is larger that the target. Of course this is logic. But I could drag the partition into the SSD.
Then get the message :
Restore completed Successfully

When restart the PC got the following message:

Windows 7 can not be started, this maybe caused by changing hardware.
Then get the message:

Do you like to run startup recovery?

When I click on Yes the PC will run for few minutes then get the following message:

This computer can not b recovered!

End

By using the original Windows 7 DVD I get the two following options:

• repair the PC which will lead exactly to the abovementioned result: The PC can not be recovered
• New (clean) installations which was successful but then I lost all my personal installations and must reinstall all programs which will cost lots of time.

Thanks & regards,


Anne

Don't know what you mean by dragging the partition - isn't such a thing.

You cannot resotre an image you made of a larger partition to an SSD that is smaller than that partition. What you first have to do is shrink the original partition down to a size that is smaller than the SSD, then back it up then restore it. This can be a painful and tedious process.

He did backup/restore with Macrium Reflect. It can drag and drop and restore to smaller partition.