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migrate to SSD error due to BDE or ?
Hello all,
So i am trying very hard to migrate my window 7 from regular HDD to SSD. But have been failing from last couple of days. So thoughts it about time to ask the experts out here. So here is the situation. My laptop have a 350GB HDD, my new SSD is 180GB.
Please keep in my my 350GB HDD has only 40GB worth of data, i have it shrink that down to 80GB(which is my C drive)....also out of the 350GB is something called BDE drive(after reserach found out its the bitlocker drive)....so i have followed the below article to the tee and as it said i ran into couple of errors as list at the below page...and i tried using the recommendation ....still no luck...but i think my problem might be the BDE drive....its only 500MB(out of which 50MB is taken, rest is free)....
so as i ran into this problem...i actually did the whole decryption of my HDD, so there is no bitlocker on it....but i still have the BDE drive...how can i get rid of this BDE drive ??? in disk management it dose not give me option delete drive or i wanted to extened the drive by 1GB (as the article suggest shrink to the lowest possible size and then add/keep 1GB on time for it to grow)...i have 200GB of unallocated space...but cant extened that BDE volume(its grayed out)...
Windows 7 System Image Disc Recovery | Windows 7,System Image,Restore,0x80042403,0x80070057,Recovering Windows 7 with System Image Restore Disks,Instructional Guide: Recovering Windows 7 with System Image Restore Disks and Resolving Failed Errors 0x8
any help would be greatly appericated...
as i said earlier i have taken backup 10 different time and tried restoring it to SSD but alway run into the 2 error in the article.....so now the only thing i can think of is to delete BDE drive...
also one more thing i did was to shrink my C drive....it had some things sitting on the end of the sector(pagefile), so had to disable pagefile to shrink my volume for C drive...
Thanks...