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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
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???
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.
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
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.
Your SSD may be Drive 1 or 2. The numbers don't matter.
Hi got it working and have resized it but on reboot win 7 doing a chkdsk !!!
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.
Dale, when you restore the image to unallocated space on your SSD look at Message #94 in the Elder thread but use the Ghost Options from Message #20 in this thread. When the restore has completed, shutdown, remove the old HD and plug the SSD into SATA port 0 on the motherboard. The SSD should be the only drive in the computer. Power on and hopefully Win7 will boot.
Hi Brian I have no broadband today so this is from my 3G I didn’t read your last comment. When I rebooted got some other error so I used win 7 disc to repair and you will never guess it works. I have re connected the other Hdd without any issue. I did use my other backup drive. Now the next few questions I want to delete the other win 7 on my old hdd. I was just going to return that to a 1 tb hdd. If I delete the old win 7 will it just expand the other partition automatically? Also next nervous bit now I hav e the sdd booting I want to upgrade my pc,s MOB to make use of the 6 gb sata. Is this going to create any issues for the sdd ?..
Dale,
Nice work. Does the SSD feel fast?
If you want to delete the old Win7, use BIBM. Or Disk Management. You will then have 494 GiB of unallocated space preceding Dales Backup. You have two choices. Create a new primary partition in the unallocated space or slide the Dales partition to the front of the HD and then resize Dales partition. The former is easier but if you want to do the latter I can provide instructions.
Instead of replacing the MB you could use a SATA3 PCI card. Much easier. If you replace the MB you could have driver issues, but unlikely and easily fixed.
Glad you persevered with image/restore?
Hi Brian
Well I have a new MON and new i7 Intel Chip with 16 ram to put in so it’s a must ????. Why will I have sdd driver issues ???
Just a pessimistic worst case scenario. You will probably be 100% fine. Even if you put your SSD in my computer we could make it work.
My thought were it might have driver issues re board and stuff but ssd should be fine I would have thought.
Especially with Win7, you should be fine. The main problem with putting HDs onto a new MB is OS booting but we mainly saw that with WinXP. Easily fixable.
Once the OS boots you can install chipset drivers.
You ganna be about for the next few hours going to do it now ??
I'll be here. Have to wait up until my wife arrives home in 4 hours.
Hi everything went to plan few driver issues but booted in no probs. I have one big issue I have 2 Nividia 8800 GT to run 3 monitiors . One of them is not being seen but if I click detect I get a weird message from Windows see here http://i.imgur.com/MVYRR.png.
My MOB is a Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 it should run 2 GC fine on the 2 PCI slots????