I'm trying an image recovery to a dell inspiron n7110 with a new ssd

mrjimphelps said:

I recently did exactly this with my wife's laptop. I used Macrium Reflect Free to create an image backup of the hard drive. I also created a Macrium emergency boot disk.

I then removed the hard drive and installed the SSD. (The SSD was a lot smaller than the hard drive -- HD was 750 GB; SSD was 240 GB.)

I then booted with the emergency disk and restored the image to the SSD.

Finally, I made sure TRIM was enabled on the SSD.

Everything worked perfectly after doing the above.

I think you need to reinstall your hard drive, and then do a backup and an emergency boot disk with Macrium Reflect Free. If you use Macrium rather than whatever you were using, you will have success.

recoveryroom42 said:

if i did my homework first, i would've done this.

Why not do it now? Reinstall your hard drive and do the above steps.

mrjimphelps said:

Why not do it now? Reinstall your hard drive and do the above steps.

if this dell laptop hard drive was as easy to access as others I would, but its not just a few screws on the bottom with a small access panel http://www.insidemylaptop.com/disass...ron-17r-n7110/