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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.
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.
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.
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
Suggest you skip the formatting commands and just drag the the partitions from the image to the SSD during the recovery steps.
@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.
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.]