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[Sheepherd]

Hi!

I want to replace my 60GB SSD with a new Samsung 830 256GB SSD. After pluging in the new SSD the setup from the windows partition screen looks like this:

Datenträger 0 is the new SSD without a partition on it (not allocated)

Datenträger 1 is another harddrive (just programs and data)

Datenträger 2 is the old SSD. As you can see, there is the 100mb hidden boot partition from win7 and the partition C: with the actual OS.

As suggested in the manual I first use Copy My Hard Drive to copy the 100mb partition to the unallocated new disc, using these settings:

After that is finished I have to copy the OS-partition C:, so I use copy my hard drive with C: and again choose the unallocated space as target: .

Now I get an error msg:

-Error EC8F17B3: Cannot complete copying of SSD (C:\) drive.
--Invalid destination.
---Invalid destination.

(UMI:V-0-3215-6067)

and if I look at the partition screen again, the new SSD (Datenträger 0) is simply vanished. If I now reboot and look again the new SSD appears again, but now as invalid.

Any ideas how I can migrate my OS?

thanks!

[Brian_K]

Sheepherd,

http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-15-copy-drive-fails-ssd-disappears/m-p/82...

Your screenshot which I saw recently has vanished.

Edit... Screenshots are back now.

[Brian_K]

Sheepherd,

Can you try this? I assume you have a USB external HD. Let me know if you don't.

Create a One Time Backup of each partition on the 55.9 GB SSD. Create the images one at a time, not together. Write the images to the external HD.

Use this...

Ghost 15
Tasks tab
One Time Backup
next
choose the OS partition
next
Browse to the Folder (to contain the image), next
Standard compression
Tick in Verify recovery point after creation
ignore the rest
next
Finish

Stand by for more instructions.

[Brian_K · Accepted solution]

Make sure the 238 GB HD is a Basic disk in Disk Management.

After you have created the images remove all drives from your computer except for the 238 GB HD.

Boot from the Ghost 15 CD and restore the images. SRP first with these options...

Verify recovery point before restore
Partition type : Primary
Check for file system errors after recovery
Set drive active (for booting OS)
Restore original disk signature
DON'T Restore master boot record  (we don't want the old MBR)

Now restore the Win7 image with these options...

Verify recovery point before restore
Resize drive after recover (unallocated space only)
Partition type : Primary
Check for file system errors after recovery

Restart and hopefully Win7 will boot.

[Brian_K]

http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-15-copy-drive-fails-ssd-disappears/m-p/82...

[Sheepherd]

That worked fantastic! Minor detail: when I restored the SRP it also somehow created a 55GB volume named just like the one I had on the old SSD. I made sure that I backed the two drives up seperately so I think it didn't come from that step.

Anyhow, I just deleted that partition before restoring the win7 partition and than it worked just fine.

Huge thank you!

[Brian_K]

Sheepherd,

Excellent news. I've done more experimenting with Dynamic disks. If you ever want to convert to a Basic disk, let us know.