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Re-image system disk fails error 0x80042412
I have Windows 7 64 bit on an Asus UL80Vt notebook. Came with a Maxtor 320 GB drive. I want to replace it with an OCZ 60 GB SSD.
I was told the a System image can only go on a drive that is the same size or bigger than the source drive. I read a tutorial on benchmarkreviews.com that said the trick was to use the Shrink Volume command in Drive Management and reduce the size of my C: drive before making the restore image. Its new size was 45 GB.
I then used the Windows system image to make a copy of the drive and saved it on to my Western Digital MyBook. All went well.
Opened the system, swapped out the drives, rebooted to my Windows Repair CD, followed the instructions to get to the System Image Restore option. It found the image on my USB drive, no problem. However when it got to the screen to "Choose additional restore options" the Format and repartition disks option was grayed out and I had a message that I should install drivers for my device. OCZ Agility drives don't have drivers. I think this is important.
Next I chose to proceed and for 2 seconds all looked good until I got a message- "Re-Image your computer. The system image restore failed. No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found." When I click on details a get a bunch of gobbledy-gook about 1) System disk may have been excluded by mistake 2) USB disk may have been assigned as a system disk, 3) An invalid disk may have been assigned as system disk and an error code (0x80042412).
I checked out 1 and 2 and they were fine (each item came with "helpful" hints). So I am guessing 3 is the problem.
The drive shows up in DISKPART. It shows up in the BIOS. It is not formatted, but that should not matter. I am about ready to give up, but before I do I will try just doing a fresh Windows install. If that doesn't work I will post here.
I read a post elsewhere that intimated that Image restores only work to the exact same model hard drive. That can not be true, I have seen too many posts about people doing exactly what I am attempting.
Any help greatly appreciated.