Solved Re-Imaging From An External To An SSD

[MCxWillyxP]

I have created a system image of my Windows 7 OS from my HDD onto my external hard drive. The image is about 250GB and the new SSD is 500GB.

When I try and run the system repair (restore a system image) from the external HDD to the new SSD, I get error error 0x80042412.

I've tried literally everything, I've tried to create a new partition; didn't work. I tried a fresh install onto the SSD before migrating the system image; didn't work. There are a lot of similar threads that I have previously read through but none of the solutions have helped.

Thanks for your help in advance guys.

 

[Britton30]

Here's a tutorial on it. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/149969-ssd-install-transfer-operating-system.html#post1286911

 

[MCxWillyxP]

I've already been through that tutorial, followed it down to the line and yet I still end up with an error.

 

[theog]

Try using Paragon.
Solved How to Migrate OS to new Hard disk.

 

[MCxWillyxP]

I'm not willing to pay out for software when the method I'm using should work.

 

[Kipper]

See if this freeware from Paragon will work for you:

 

[MCxWillyxP]

Thanks for that, got it all transferred now.

One more question though; I want to store all of the User data on my HDD rather than on the SSD so how do I configure my settings so that the libraries automatically save and load using the HDD rather than the SSD?

 

[Kaktussoft]

Thanks for that, got it all transferred now.

One more question though; I want to store all of the User data on my HDD rather than on the SSD so how do I configure my settings so that the libraries automatically save and load using the HDD rather than the SSD?

First make a folder on HDD as placeholder of the new stuff. For example F:\yourname

Then in explorer goto %userprofile%

Then cut/paste folders from %userprofile% to F:\yourname
Contacts
Desktop
Documents
Downloads
Favorites
Links
Music
Pictures
Saved Games
Searches
Videos
(Some folders have "My" as prefix). Cut/paste ... not copy!!

Do the same for C:\users\public (public music/documents etcetera). Not all folders listed above are there! Put them in F:\Public for example

All libraries are updated automagically.

Don't do the appdata/tracing/libraries folders!

 

[Britton30]

Here's the tutorial on it using Location tab. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18629-user-folders-change-default-location.html#post199850

 

[Kaktussoft]

Here's the tutorial on it using Location tab. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18629-user-folders-change-default-location.html#post199850

Great tutorial... but cut/paste works as well and is much easier

 

[Britton30]

Here's the tutorial on it using Location tab. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18629-user-folders-change-default-location.html#post199850

Great tutorial... but cut/paste works as well and is much easier

I prefer the correct way so as it's not plagerism.

 

[MCxWillyxP]

Cheers guys, great help.

So now that all of my old HDD content is on my new SSD (through the imaging), would it be worth formatting that HDD before I set up the new library locations?

 

[Kaktussoft]

Cheers guys, great help.

So now that all of my old HDD content is on my new SSD (through the imaging), would it be worth formatting that HDD before I set up the new library locations?

Please post screenshot of disk management with hdd and ssd attached (and tell which one is hdd and ssd). Did you align SSD? Also check these http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/330-system-protection-turn-off.html if it's still what you want.

 

[Britton30]

Cheers guys, great help.

So now that all of my old HDD content is on my new SSD (through the imaging), would it be worth formatting that HDD before I set up the new library locations?

Yes, that's what I do. You could also leave the data there and make a new folder for the Users folders you want to move. I would also make sure it's marked INactive.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/197157-partition-mark-inactive.html

 

[MCxWillyxP]

Cheers guys, great help.

So now that all of my old HDD content is on my new SSD (through the imaging), would it be worth formatting that HDD before I set up the new library locations?

Yes, that's what I do. You could also leave the data there and make a new folder for the Users folders you want to move. I would also make sure it's marked INactive.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/197157-partition-mark-inactive.html

I think rather than saving any old data, I'll just wipe it. That way it can literally just be used as a storage drive. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Thanks to everyone that helped me, it's very much appreciated

 

[chev65]

Just in case any one was interested in fixing the 0x80042412 error problem.

When you restore an system image from one hard drive to a new hard drive using a repair disk on your windows 7 system, you may get the error below:​

"No disk can be used 0x80042412"​

How to fix?​

Trying to go from a 500gb drive to another 500gb drive and getting the same error. I went into Diskpart and type "select disk=0". Then I type "detail disk" to make sure I had the right drive. I typed "Clean", and then "exit" to get out of Diskpart. And then I started the image recovery and finally it works. Before I did these commands I had formatted the drive to one large partition, set the partition to active, and made sure it had a drive letter assigned.​

If your destination disk has a lower capacity than the source disk, you need to go into the disk manager and shrink each partition on the source disk before restoring.

Example: Source is a 500GB hard drive with only 100GB of data, but destination is a 300GB hard drive. You will need to shrink the source partitions to 1GB less than maximum (100 + 1GB) before restoring.

 

[Kaktussoft]

Just in case any one was interested in fixing the 0x80042412 error problem.

When you restore an system image from one hard drive to a new hard drive using a repair disk on your windows 7 system, you may get the error below:​

"No disk can be used 0x80042412"​

How to fix?​

Trying to go from a 500gb drive to another 500gb drive and getting the same error. I went into Diskpart and type "select disk=0". Then I type "detail disk" to make sure I had the right drive. I typed "Clean", and then "exit" to get out of Diskpart. And then I started the image recovery and finally it works. Before I did these commands I had formatted the drive to one large partition, set the partition to active, and made sure it had a drive letter assigned.​

If your destination disk has a lower capacity than the source disk, you need to go into the disk manager and shrink each partition on the source disk before restoring.

Example: Source is a 500GB hard drive with only 100GB of data, but destination is a 300GB hard drive. You will need to shrink the source partitions to 1GB less than maximum (100 + 1GB) before restoring.

You will need to shrink the source partitions to 1GB less than maximum (100 + 1GB) before BACKUP.
Even more correct: Make the last sector of last partition fit on destination disk

 

[chev65]

I only copied that from another place, but you are correct it should obviously say before the system image is created or you may get the error message again.

I personally never have any problems using Windows 7 file recovery but I did take the time to look up the error # and posted some possible solutions just in case anyone else comes across this thread.