OS Cloning from mechanical HD to SSD

[irse]

I bought a new laptop and they did not offer an SSD for the OS. I cloned the OS from a mechanical HD to a SSD and am using the SSD. I have two issues. MS Office did not like the clone and I had to uninstall it. I cannot reinstall. It gives me a Error 1935 plus some other numbers. It has to do with the Net framework or some type of Share point which I know nothing about. Also, Windows 7 is always updating. it just seems like the updates doesn't install properly or something like that. Is there issues with cloning from a mechanical HS to a SSD? Should I put the original HD back in and try to reclone again. I am using Bounceback Ultimate. I have used it in my desktop without any issues. Should I use some other program? Does the Windows 7 backup clone such that I can just swap out drives? Thanks

One thing I forgot to add was I went from a 500GB mechanical drive to a 120 GB SSD. Would that cause a problem?

 

[bruceb]

What I would try is first, shrink the active partition on the hard drive down to less than 120GB .. Also try doing the clone with Acronis TruImage .. they do have a trial period and your clone will work fine. As for Office error 1935 try using this tool and then run the installer again, if your new clone does not work properly

Download and run msicuu2.exe. This is a MS file to clean up installs.

http://www.filecluster.com/downloads/Windows-Installer-CleanUp-Utility.html

 

[irse]

What I would try is first, shrink the active partition on the hard drive down to less than 120GB .. Also try doing the clone with Acronis TruImage .. they do have a trial period and your clone will work fine. As for Office error 1935 try using this tool and then run the installer again, if your new clone does not work properly

Download and run msicuu2.exe. This is a MS file to clean up installs.

http://www.filecluster.com/downloads/Windows-Installer-CleanUp-Utility.html

I'll try the Office repair first since everything else seems to work fine. Then if it doesn't, I'll put in my mechanical HD, repartition the C: drive (how do you do that?), and install Truimage. I have a previous version so I might upgrade. Then I'll reclone. Hope that does it. Thanks. (I think next time I'll get a laptop with SSd already installed although they are harder to find)

 

[LucJoe]

I'll try the Office repair first since everything else seems to work fine. Then if it doesn't, I'll put in my mechanical HD, repartition the C: drive (how do you do that?), and install Truimage. I have a previous version so I might upgrade. Then I'll reclone. Hope that does it. Thanks. (I think next time I'll get a laptop with SSd already installed although they are harder to find)

Why not just fresh install the OS?

 

[jimmyzaas]

Why not just fresh install the OS?

That's not always possible. Especially with new laptops where they do not provide you any installation media at all. You have to create the recovery media yourself when you first power on your laptop.

If you purchased crap like Lenovo, you can probably buy the media but all they will send you is the recovery media with all the crap preinstalled. So far, the only company I've seen that still ships separate Windows 7 discs is Dell with their business Dell laptops (ie. Vostros, Latitudes). Maybe HP does too but I've never ordered from them.

 

[ed29a]

I did this for my laptop. I have an eSata port on it. If you don't, you can always move the two drives into a desktop (don't boot on them though). Basically: I used the Windows RAID 1 feature to clone my SSD.

 

[irse]

That's not always possible. Especially with new laptops where they do not provide you any installation media at all. You have to create the recovery media yourself when you first power on your laptop.

If you purchased crap like Lenovo, you can probably buy the media but all they will send you is the recovery media with all the crap preinstalled. So far, the only company I've seen that still ships separate Windows 7 discs is Dell with their business Dell laptops (ie. Vostros, Latitudes). Maybe HP does too but I've never ordered from them.

Correct. No media came with it so I'm trying to do with the current install of the OS.

 

[jjmIII]

Why not just fresh install the OS?

That's the only correct way IMO.

It's not that hard to find a Win7 disk. When spending for an SSD, I only want the best install.....a clean one! Not to mention installing to an SSD takes 10 minutes.

 

[irse]

Doesn't it take a while to find all of the drivers?

 

[jjmIII]

Doesn't it take a while to find all of the drivers?

No. Win7 has great driver support. You'll want to grab your chipset and gpu drivers, but the original install will leave you with a fully running computer.

Be sure to set the BIOS to AHCI.

 

[Old Hippie]

I bought a new laptop and they did not offer an SSD for the OS.

I'm going to go against the grain here and start at the basics.....just something about the thing I have with 'logic'.

What kind/model laptop is it?

Edit....

No media came with it so I'm trying to do with the current install of the OS.

Like jimmyzaas posted, your best option is to buy the recovery discs for the proprietary drivers.

 

[irse]

I'm going to go against the grain here and start at the basics.....just something about the thing I have with 'logic'.

What kind/model laptop is it?

Edit....

Like jimmyzaas posted, your best option is to buy the recovery discs for the proprietary drivers.

HP Pavillion dv7t - 6100

Can't even figure out how to get into the BIOS. F1 is System Properties or something like that but I can't get past just the properties. All I can do is esc. F2, F5 are some kind of test. Del did nothing. F11 is error log or something like that.

 

[Old Hippie]

HP Pavillion dv7t - 6100

Can't even figure out how to get into the BIOS. F1 is System Properties or something like that but I can't get past just the properties. All I can do is esc. F2, F5 are some kind of test. Del did nothing. F11 is error log or something like that.

Ah Ha.

It's probably looking for something special on the drive.

I know nothing about Bounceback Ultimate but if you actually cloned the drive and it doesn't work, it's probably because your HP laptop doesn't "like" the drive and/or it doesn't like not seeing HP's proprietary drivers.

PSSS...

One thing I forgot to add was I went from a 500GB mechanical drive to a 120 GB SSD. Would that cause a problem?

If there was a problem and that fancy software didn't alert you to a problem....?