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[Brian_K]

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[DaleHolden]

Sorry Brian

I thoght you said read the first page of that post1 are you now asking me to read every page?

What is BIBM ???? 

[Brian_K]

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-bare-metal.htm

[DaleHolden]

Brian

Please do not take this the wrong way and I fully appreciate your help.

But I have 1 error on bootup and to reslove it I have to read a 157 page pdf  and create a disc just to shrink my drive.

Then I have to read a 19 page forum thread to backup my drive and understand it.

Would it not be easier to install Win 7 from new. I thought buying a Samsung SSD and a copy of Ghost would be easy.

I have built over 30 PC's but never had this much hassel to get a drive working. Why am downloading other software just to shrink my drive.

It seems more work than a new install!!!!

I say again I fully appreciate your help but it seems a steep learning curve just to clone a bloody drive. The software asks you about 60 questions to make a disc how is that easy for a newbie???

[Brian_K]

Dale,

I understand what you are saying but in that long thread I've posted instructions so you don't have to read a pdf or think about anything complicated. It's just follow A B C

I know it's going to take many hours to do this but setting up an OS from scratch, installing and configuring your apps and then tweaking them takes time too. I never install an OS if I can restore an image.

On the other hand, if you only have a few apps then a Win7 install may be the way to go.

[DaleHolden]

Hi Brian

I have followed your instruction in the post and  burnt 3 new DVD and none of them will boot getting same error EMBRL MISSING

[Brian_K]

Dale,

Try creating a USB flash drive instead. Just choose the default options for the flash drive in BIBM. Use the smallest flash drive you have because BIBM only uses 2 MB or so. You can completely remove BIBM from the flash drive later when you want to reuse the drive.

When you boot from a BIBM flash drive, the drive is sometimes listed as Drive 0. No problem. Use the drop down menu to find your HD and SSD.

Edit.. I just made a flash drive. Instead of the CD drive letter, choose the flash drive letter. The default USB Mode is Normal. Accept that.

When I booted the flash drive it was Drive 0 and showed as 3 MB FAT-16. My 3 other HDs were Drives 1, 2 and 3 and had MBR Partitions.

[Brian_K]

Your SSD may be Drive 1 or 2. The numbers don't matter.

[DaleHolden]

Hi got it working and have resized it but on reboot win 7 doing a chkdsk !!!

[Brian_K]

No problem.

Your next step is to create a One Time Backup of the C: drive. You can write it to the Dales Backup partition.