Problems with Kingston ssdnow 300 ssd - help

[Borg20001]

I was upgrading my 64 gb crucial ssd to a Kingston SSDNow 300 120 GB HD. Running Win7. Tried to clone the 64 gb drive to the 120 gb drive.

Finally was able to do it after changing bios settings for sata to ahci and getting the 2012 version of Acronis True Image from Kingston Tech (the disc that came with the kit would't find any of the SSDs). Cloned the disk then shut down pc and installed the 120 GB SSD.

After POST get this error - B1 InitializeLibrary Failed 0xc0000001

So I figured okay I'll retry it. Reinstalled the 64 GB SSD that was just working and after boot-up get this error:

MBR Error 1
Press any key to boot from floppy.

Tried then to recover/repair the 64 GB SSD with my Win7 disc but when I select Repair computer, I get yet another error message stating that This OS is not compatible with the version for this disc (Its the same install disk - Win7 Home Premium). So I can't run bootrec.exe/fixmbr or anything else.

So I thought Ok bite the bullet and just reinstall everything on the 120 GB SSD. When to run that from the windows install disk but the SSD still seems to have all the cloned stuff from the 64 GB SSD because Win7 says that for the 120 GB SSD, there is only 55 GB left of space.

Once again, I thought okay, I'll just reformat the 120 GB SSD but the only way I can do that is to use the USB2 enclosure that came with the 120 GB SSD. Put the drive in the enclosure and when I plug it into the USB port on my working XP pc, it recognizes it but I can not find the 120 GB SSD anywhere on My Computer so I can't reformat it. I was going to use the program Eraser 6.0 to clean up the 120 GB SSD but I can't find the SSD drive when its plugged into my pc.

If you've read this far, you know that I need HELP!

Help me Anandtech Forums, you're my only hope!

 

[postmortemIA]

use disk management tool, dksmgmt.msc, and delete existing partitions (if any are found), and create new one

I remember once I used Acronis to clone whole drive (instead of copying just partitions), my target drive capacity was changed. Then I used "Hitachi Feature Tool" to fix it to original size.

 

[Borg20001]

use disk management tool, dksmgmt.msc, and delete existing partitions (if any are found), and create new one

I remember once I used Acronis to clone whole drive (instead of copying just partitions), my target drive capacity was changed. Then I used "Hitachi Feature Tool" to fix it to original size.

Thanks PM,

I found the disc through the Disk management tool on my XP pc. It lists it as Healthy GPT Protective Partition and shows the whole capacity 119 GB listed.

However when I select "Actions" and "All Tasks" none are available, Format and Delete Partition and everything else is not selectable.

Any ideas for my next step?