SSD - Install and Transfer the Operating System

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  1. EM2
    Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Pro x64
       #490

    Well I installed vista on it no problems. Reformatted it and gave it another shot and it worked. I don't know what happened, but I'm happy its working now. Thanks for the help.
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  2. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #491

    Hi, I'm having trouble in following the tutorial. I'm at the point where I have to move the 100MB active boot partition and I'm pretty much lost there, so I skipped to the commands to type in:

    Alternatively and easier is if you first create the 100MB partition with these commands:

    Diskpart
    List disk
    Select disk n (where n is the number that was given for your SSD in List disk)
    Clean
    Create partition primary size=100 align=1024
    Format fs=ntfs quick
    Active
    Exit
    and by the time I get to "Format fs=ntfs quick" it says Virtual Disk Service Error: The volume is not online. So I ignore this and continue following the tutorial, I type "Active" and get There is no partition selected.

    Please help me here, I'm completely lost. Thanks
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  3. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #492

    Xero124 said:
    Hi, I'm having trouble in following the tutorial. I'm at the point where I have to move the 100MB active boot partition and I'm pretty much lost there, so I skipped to the commands to type in:

    Alternatively and easier is if you first create the 100MB partition with these commands:


    Diskpart
    List disk
    Select disk n (where n is the number that was given for your SSD in List disk)
    Clean
    Create partition primary size=100 align=1024
    Format fs=ntfs quick
    Active
    Exit





    and by the time I get to "Format fs=ntfs quick" it says Virtual Disk Service Error: The volume is not online. So I ignore this and continue following the tutorial, I type "Active" and get There is no partition selected.

    Please help me here, I'm completely lost. Thanks
    Xero is this a new SSD? or an old one being reused?
    If it is a new one then it should run as per that tutorial.
    Try again mate and make sure the spelling is right command prompt is very fussy.
    If that doesn't work you might try a scannow and a disk check

    SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
    Disk Check
    If it is an old drive how old and you might use Parted Magic secure erase to get it back to new as it were. downloads
    You need to make a bootable disk and then follow the instructions to erase the disk.
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  4. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #493

    Hi ICit2lol, yep this is a new ssd. I'm tempted to just do a clean install of Win 7 though, rather than copy the os across. It's a little easier
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  5. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
    Thread Starter
       #494

    Suggest you skip the formatting commands and just drag the the partitions from the image to the SSD during the recovery steps.
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  6. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #495

    This is THE man Xero so go with WHS mate you are in good hands:)
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  7. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #496

    Oh right ok I'll do that then. Thanks guys.
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  8. mjf
    Posts : 5,969
    Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1
       #497

    @Xero124
    If it was me I wouldn't be happy until I found the root cause of the problem. You may have a dud SSD.
    Before going through the effort of installing all your software I'd attempt to see if "Disk Management" allows you to set the SSD online then do a format primary NTFS. Assign a drive letter and see if the SSD is usable.
    Then try the command line sequence again.
    You can also use Partition Wizard Bootable CD to have a look at the SSD.
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  9. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #498

    mjf said:
    @Xero124
    If it was me I wouldn't be happy until I found the root cause of the problem. You may have a dud SSD.
    Before going through the effort of installing all your software I'd attempt to see if "Disk Management" allows you to set the SSD online then do a format primary NTFS. Assign a drive letter and see if the SSD is usable.
    Then try the command line sequence again.
    You can also use Partition Wizard Bootable CD to have a look at the SSD.
    I'll second that MJF that app is pure gold to me, I use it all the time for many tasks.
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  10. Posts : 32
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
       #499

    skip the image?


    Hi Whs:

    Thank you for the detailed guide.

    Reading through it to prepare for a geeky laptop transfer in the next few weeks, I thought of a simple question - hopefully not too silly. After creating an MBR on the SSD, and setting up the partitions, checking alignment, for example with partitionwizard, why use a separate program to first create an image to copy the HDD partition containing the system to the SSD? Why not just copy it directly from the HDD to the SSD?

    Since your guide was originally written there are new versions of partitionwizard. It now has a copy partition function - I don't know if it had that when you wrote your guide - would that do the copying job?

    [Partitionwizard is not showing any separate 100MB partition in this case.]
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