BIOS still sees the hard drives, but you can't boot. The laptops are totally different models, but all of a sudden they just won't boot into Windows, or safe mode. I've now had 2 laptops (different models) that I was able to clone to a SSD, but after a week or 2, they are no longer bootable. I've had good luck on most machines, but had a few specific Dell issues. The Source HD is always still in machine, and the destination HD (SSD) is attached via USB to SATA adapter. I boot into the Acronis program through a bootable USB and clone them in that way. I think when I initally formated that SSD 3 years ago I kept that thinking SSD needs it.I have used Acronis True Image 2014 to clone many different hard drives from traditional spinning disks to SSDs. I have this 26GB unallocated in my C drive. Now you a have new found confident Acronis recoverer.
I was worried about that)Īnd the same old 1TB disk on Drive 0 went back to Foreign disk.but then I knew how to restore that.Īlls well that ends well. (While recovering, it was showing my backup was in C Drive and the recvoering disks was D. When I booted it all looked good.the the OS was the C: Drive. I had removed the old C drive anyway so I was confident that I had the old C Disk and the backups. So I unchecked and retried and it went on gave me the proceed at the end which I did. It wanted to know where to put the system reserved and it would not let me choose my disk with 250GB SSD (that I was trying to recover to)Īnd that had onky two drives the c: drive and the MBR and there was no system reserved space When I selected all 3 it would not proceed past the last step. 1) C: drive, 2) MBR and 3) System reserved
I had 3 partition on my C: os drive (120GB) which I was trying to replace. I think we have a success! Now I have a bigger C: Drive. I can look into seeing why it did not recover into my 250SSD after I fix this 1TB mess.
Since my original PC c drive is bootable. What do I do? now my priority is to recover my data in this 1TB. when I clicked conver to basic, it gave me a message "" EFI/MSR partition will be lost if they are existed on the GPT disk". So I pulled the 1TB out from my PC and used an USB connected to another laptop to view it vua the Ease US. How do I recover this foregin/dynamic disk to a basic without data loss? I googled and found that EaseUS freeware could convert this to basic without data lss. In Disk manager it is showing as Foreign/Dynamic. I had another 1TB SSD (on Disk 0) that had some file.this is not the OS Disk. Not such a big deal.Ģ) The 250GB SSD still has the old files (I wanted the recovered OS into this SSD so I can swap this SSD ) when I rebooted after the recover, I saw the my OS has gone back to 7 days old (the day I took a complete backup).
Please advice or refer me to a pdf that gives me enough information for me to do what I am trying to acccomplish.ġ) When I recovered, Even though I selected the 250GB SSD that I wanted to recover to, it actually recovered into my primary C: Drive. If not, what is the new procedure for what I want to do? I not only want to replace my 120GB to a larger SSD, I want the new additional space to be available as well. Does the instruciton above about Clone disk still apply? Although I thought I had only one parition for my the C drive (120GB), I noticed that there is a small 100MB parition. Somewhere else I saw a post where it said the clone disk may not work properly if there are more than 1 partition in the C Drive. If everything works fine, then you can reconnect the other disks. boot the computer on the recovery CD and clone the 120GB to the 250GB connect the 120GB to the connectors of the D: disk disconnect the 120GB SSD and put the 250 GB SSD instead disconnect the D: and E: disks for the time being
create a full backup of your 120GB SSD to a USB disk for safekeeping, boot up the computer on the Acorns recovery USB stick or CD Was searching for how to clone and I saw this My C drive with my Win7 OS of 120GB SSD is running out of space and need to move to the 512GB SSD.