Cloning Winten
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To keep it short, over the weekend, I attempted to replace the spinning disk in my < 2yo laptop with a SSD. The laptop has a second hdd bay and I had bought the caddy and connector, so the idea was to install the drive and clone the existing drive to the new SSD, then simply change the boot device. Somewhere things went wrong and the system refuses to boot from the SSD. For the time being, I'm going to blame the cloning software until I get a chance to try another one. (I used the software which came with the SSD) Before I get too far, have others successfully cloned Winten? (or is it just me?) What I did: 0: install disk cloning software with license from SDD manufacturer (name withheld until proven incompetent) 1: create bootable USB with clone utilities 2: boot to USB and perform disk clone 3: boot to new drive...failed...looked promising at first...login screen comes up for a few seconds, then the screen goes black leaving just a spinning cursor. I left it that way for hours yesterday. No dice. :( 4: boot to safemode on original disk and disable sync services from cloning software (after reading about this issue on their website) 5: boot to USB again and repeat clone process 6: boot to new drive again and get almost the same thing as before, but now the screen just goes black...not even a cursor??? 7: think to self...'maybe I need to take the original drive out completely', so disassemble laptop and pull the original drive out...snap cover back on but leave the screws out 8: boot to the new drive again...bluescreen...problem with the device or something 9: move drive to now empty main drive bay...(does it matter?) 10: goto 8 :laugh: 11: reinstall original spinning drive back into main drive bay and we're back to square one!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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