Well I appreciate the against-all-odds help here, but really, isn't it time to cut bait and just re-install Win7 on the new drive?
Notes:
as Brian noted, the connection is drive-to-drive via mobo - not USB
the delay in my posts was not reflective of the time taken for copying, though if it went as it did the first two times when I was checking in on it occasionally, it was about a 2-hour process (but with over an hour spent checking MFT, as I recall, with no progress bar indication showing during that whole time)
bad sectors just happen to show up the third time?
my external really doesn't need to be polluted by this process, does it? It's got 268GB empty, so there's space, but this process seems far from ready for prime time.
Since I don't have any more time to spend on this before leaving for work, I will just repeat the last trial now. I'll bet I don't have the same problem again - but will have a NEW one.
ps: running again, but "Resize drive to fill unallocated space" option is grayed out this time.
Went ahead and used Disk Management to set back to drive F - it worked
Looked at drives thru EaseUS and F shows as unformatted this time
So, what the heck, started Ghost and let it do the formating.
Have 3 bars now, it barfed after 4 on prior run with 'insufficient space for image file'
TWT ....
.... 3 progress bars and nearing a 1.5hrs without another ....
says it is 'Copying volume data over existing volume'
number of hours remaining up to 19 - adds 1 about every 10mins.
not enough progress information - how much data to be copied, where it is now
at least something that show progress and that it is not simply dead.
dayrelton,
Would you mind starting a new thread? Just copy/paste your text. It gets too confusing if different issues are mixed in the one thread.
ps: running again, but "Resize drive to fill unallocated space" option is grayed out this time.
This usually means you have a partition on the SSD (from the failed copy) and not unallocated space. Did you see a drive letter for the SSD? But keep going as we want your data on the SSD. If there was a drive letter the SSD won't load into Win7 but we can fix that.
Dave and I are concerned about the state of your old HD. That's why we suggested creating an image. It is faster, usually, and more reliable. An image doesn't pollute your external HD. It's just a file and can be moved, copied, renamed or deleted like any other file.
Edit... The SSD would have contained a partition without a drive letter. That's OK.
Sorry about that: It worked - only difference was letting Ghost format the partition - in case anyone had/has this problem - and it booted ok
Well this time, the copy completed, and Norton mysteriously assigned a drive letter (F) to the copy, though there's 0% chance I had set the copy process up to do so. I'd have moved on to reload Win7 to the SSD by now but I'm too busy with my day job.
Dave,
Did you try to boot from the SSD? Having a drive letter of F: or any drive letter at the end of the Ghost Copy DOESN'T matter. That drive letter is assigned by the old OS and is irrelevant as far as the new OS is concerened. I hope you didn't give up and install Windows because you should have had a good copy.
Your very first Copy Drive yielded a good copy. The only problem was a Windows drive letter problem and that's not Ghost's fault. It's what happens if you copy into a partition with a drive letter. But it is easy to fix.