...so i cocked up my SSD clone Process.

[MisterMac]

Hey Anandtech,


So seeing a massive offer on a 128 GB 830 Samsung, i finally decided to join the SSD crowd.

My SSD came in a nicebox, with a norton ghost \ samsung driver cd that included a "manual" if you will, to clone your partition to your new SSD.


I did the copy harddisk from Norton Ghost 15 - to my SSD.
Clone seems succesful, there's some unallocated space, but the 80 GB main Win7 partition is copied accessible and so on.

However, it crashes on BOOT, just short of the red,green,blue,yellow "balls" flowing up to form the windows logo.
I've tried repairing via windows boot cd, but it won't fix it.


And i'm wondering what my next move is.
I'm adamant to not giving in and installing fresh.

Currently i'm booting via USB 3\ SATA6 adapter that came with the drive.
According to Samsung's magic PDF, it should work if cloned succesfully.


Should i get it completed installed inside my case ,and take out my HDD?
Can i use some sweet rawfix or testdisk to fix the problem?

The windows repair test seemed to indicate partition table errors.


Any idea short of using another cloning program and trying?

 

[razel]

You are booting via USB 3? So I take it the internal HDD is still installed in it's SATA port. If so there's your issue. Replace the HDD with the SSD.

 

[MisterMac]

I am fully installed, and that was issue.


The last thing i tried before giving up and waiting for clues for you guys.



So lesson learned, try the obvious thing first -_-

 

[sgrinavi]

Try a different clone program, I had something similar happen using Acronis, I switched to HDClone and it worked fine