Can a SSD with Win7 on it be used again?

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  1. Posts : 55
    Windows 7 H.P. S.P.-1 32bit , Debian Linux 64bit
       #1

    Can a SSD with Win7 on it be used again?


    I had an OCZ 120gb SSD for a while and decided to go for a larger drive a Samsung 840 EVO 750gb.

    I transferred my image using Reflect and unplugged my original drive and the new one booted just fine.

    Then I unplugged the new drive and plugged the original back in and booted Partition Wizard CD and

    deleted/wiped the partition with 0's and created/formatted a new partition. My problem is whenever the old

    drive is plugged in having been erased Windows7 will end up calling itself non genuine and not run on the

    new drive. I can get Windows to run if the old drive(erased) is unplugged. Do any of you guru's out there

    know if once a SSD has had Windows on it can it be used again as a spare?
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  2. Posts : 72,050
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #2

    Hello Dave,

    Please go ahead and post a screenshot showing all of you Disk Management window while both drives are connected to see if it may show what the issue is. Please point out which drive is which. :)

    Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image
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  3. Posts : 55
    Windows 7 H.P. S.P.-1 32bit , Debian Linux 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks Brink. I have imaged the old drive again with Windows7 to make sure it is all right. But when I erase it as

    described above and plug it in along with the new drive Windows won't fire up in the end after trying to repair itself thus

    no screen shot using both drives. I was wondering if the conflict has to do with the serial# on the old drive having been

    used with Windows if that maybe throw's a monkey wrench but it seems like I have done this with regular HDD's.
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  4. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #4

    Have the data cable plugged in on the old ssd, fire up your new drive, let windows come up. Then plug in the power cable to the old ssd, give it a few seconds, windows may install drivers. You should then be able to format it using disk management.
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  5. Posts : 55
    Windows 7 H.P. S.P.-1 32bit , Debian Linux 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Here is a screen shot of it working with the new drive.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Can a SSD with Win7 on it be used again?-disk.png  
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  6. Posts : 72,050
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #6

    Dave,

    If Disk 1 is not your OS drive, then you need to mark it as inactive instead. Were you planning on doing anything with the unallocated space on Disk 0?

    Partition - Mark as Inactive

    Be sure to try what Brian posted above as well. :)
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  7. Posts : 55
    Windows 7 H.P. S.P.-1 32bit , Debian Linux 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Brink my system has 2 bootable disks 1 Windows7 and 1 Debian. The Windows7 disk 0 has an unallocated

    section that works with the Samsung disk controller. I can use F8 at bootup to pick the Debian drive instead of

    Windows. I have tried AddRAM's idea and now the drive shows up as drive 8 and is offline. When I right click

    on the drive the only thing available is help. Now that it is showing up is there any tricks you know of to format it?
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  8. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
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  9. Posts : 72,050
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #9

    In that case, you don't want to make Disk 1 inactive.

    See if you may be able to run a "clean" (not "clean all") command on the old SSD to wipe it out to be unallocated afterwards. If it won't let you do it in Windows, then see if you may be able to do so at boot.

    Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command
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  10. Posts : 55
    Windows 7 H.P. S.P.-1 32bit , Debian Linux 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #10

    It is not marked active and I have erased as described above. When I cursor over

    the offline word it brings up a note "Offline(The disk is offline because it has a signature

    collision with another disk that is online)". Any more idea's?
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