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Guys, Good News!
All the time and effort invested in prepping up my aging Seagate HDD for cloning finally paid off last night..
After trying the SSD included 'Samsung Migration' software one last time last night without success, I then decided to leave 'AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard' running over night, and this morning to my surprise it cloned everything from my drive C:\ [OS] without any errors what so ever, swapped out the old Seagate HDD and installed the SSD on the same SATA Port and everything works without any issues, all Libraries are located on drive D:\ as before and the boot-up takes about 30 seconds now, one a good day it took this PC at least 5 minutes to boot before; This PC only supports SATA 2, I wonder how much faster this SSD would be running on a a SATA 3 port.
All I need to do now is clean-up all the testing log files left behind from the old HDD recovery, etc, and look into upgrading the memory on this PC, after that this PC should be good to go until Windows 10 comes around...
I want to thank you all for the help and input, especially Gregrocker for pointing me to the Seagate's 'Seatools for DOS' tool, I think that scan is what saved the day for me, I'll also keep the Win7 reinstall tutorial link handy in a bookmark just in case..LOL. and thanks to VerKy for turning me on to that AOMEI Cloning software that was able to read the repaired HDD.
:)