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please post a full blown screenshot of disk management
the usd / sata adaptor has two plugs on it and I was plugging in both as i read somewhere that sometimes the disk cannot get enough electricity from one plug. I then reverted to just the one plug and this time showed as 238GB unallocated hey presto is so I thought!!
With my new found confidence i went in Acronis and this time the ssd was listed as a destination - brilliant, you can here a but coming!!
I kicked off the restore and went to get a cup of tea as at said it would take 100 mins to complete the restore. Checked 10 mins later and there was an error message
failed to wrte to sector 0 of hard disk '2'
driect r/w operation has failed
input / output error
Cancelled that and went back to diskman and it was showing as no media again FFS.
That's the current situation.
From what I have seen it seems like that there is a problem with the adaptor, the usb connections are pretty loose.
Sorry if this is a daft question but is it possible It is possible that I have remove the hdd and replace with ssd and then then start up with windows recovery disk I made yesterday and then restore the disk image from my external drive to the SSD?
Well despite a number of attempts i been unable to get to sdd to correctly again in disk management, it is still show as no media. I am wondering whether I am going to have to return this drive to the shop and get my money back or exchange for another one. I am slowly beginning to lose the will to live.
Simon
I haven't paid close attention to this thread, so I may have misunderstood?
Are you saying that the SSD is NOT recognized in the BIOS when it is the one and only drive connected to the laptop and that it is in the standard drive bay where the HDD was, with the HDD completely removed and disconnected?
I am not trying (and do not want) to do a clean install. I want to clone / restore disk image to SDD.
A short while ago I ask whether I could / should swap the SSD with teh HDD and then boot from the windows recovery disk I made yesterday and then restore the disk image from my external drive to the SSD? Does that sound like a good plan?
Simon