Hold on there.
Your getting the autocheck error for another reason, it should be easy to fix.
Somewhere along the line here you didn't follow an instruction and you gave the destination partition drive letters.
Give us a few minutes here
Dave
Alan,
I'm not sure you followed instructions or if my instructions were unclear. When you completed Copy Drive did you remove the old HD, install the SSD and not have the old HD connected in any way to the laptop?
Don't do anything to the SSD as it can be fixed.
I was quite careful not to assign any drive letters. I totally removed the original drive and placed the new drive in the bay. I believe that if I had assigned a drive letter I would see the drive in file explorer when it is on the USB cable. I am not doing anything to the drive, I am going to have to focus on work today better than I did yesterday so I am not going to do much till later today unless it is a quickie. Silly question, how does the system know what is the c drive when I put the new drive in as no letters are assigned?
Alan,
The OS assigns the drive letters. You don't have to. By default it chooses C: unless it sees another C: on first boot.
So on first boot from the SSD (with the old HD not connected) you saw "autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK". Is that correct? The first boot?
Another few questions. How did you create and delete the partitions on the SSD? Which app did you use?
You said "So on first boot from the SSD (with the old HD not connected) you saw "autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK". Is that correct? The first boot?"
Correct
created the partitions with WIndows disk management
Thanks
alanbredbury wrote:Ok this created a disk image on my new drive, not what I want. I want to create a bootable copy of my existing drive structured as my current drive is.
Thanks
Alan,
I am still following this thread with interest and far be it for me to interfere with what Brian and Dave are helping you with.
When I talked about an external drive I was refereing to a USB drive, example GoFlex2. That type of drive is used to run backups of your computer which are called recovery points and they are kept separate to the computer.
There are two methods to copy a drive or "clone" it, 1 - Copy My Hard Drive and 2 - Image-restore.
I like to call the latter image-transfer.
It is the latter method that I was referring to in my step by step instruction posted in message 2 in your other thread.
To use method 2 you must have a separate drive (internal or external) to keep your backups or images on.
These images or backups are not only used to recover your pc but also to copy a drive.
When it comes to using "copy my drive" it will only work on separate drives and Not on a partitioned drive because you can't select individual partitions, it will only do one.
That is why you need the Windows installation disk to run a repair thus enabling the boot info.
For example I have a multi boot machine with 6 O/Ss on one 250 gig drive and no hidden partitions. I cannot use "copy my hard drive" to "clone" to a new drive because of the reason explained above I have to use "Image-Restore" so that I can select individual partitions and transfer them one at a time.
Brian and Dave will correct me if I am wrong, and to be honest you should stick with them because they will be able to guide you through the process with the method you have used to "clone" the new SSD drive.
Deric
I am pretty sure this is an appropriate place to insert an "I hate Microsoft" comment.
Unfortunately I have no choice.
I might add that I did manage to copy partitions individually using the copy drive command. Seems the problem is getting one of them to be a boot partition. I get the image concept but I have 235 GB on my current drive and I don't want to go buy a drive to image onto after buying software that clearly advertizes the ability to clone a drive. Keeping in mind that I will have a drive (my old one) with a full backup on it as soon as I get the new one going. As I see it, perhaps worst case I wait for the WIndows disks. shrug.
It is all about understanding what Ghost does for you, it is predominately a computer Backup software.
The idea is to backup, copy or image, whatever you want to call it, your computer onto a separate drive.
Then in the case of a major crash or virus attack recover the computer to the last backup state with all your settings in place and all applications loaded.
Everything else included in Ghost is a spin off of the basic function.
There are a lot of users out there that get the idea that "cloning" the drive is a backup, it is not, it is a safeguard incase of a complete drive failure.
At the moment I am running on my "cloned" drive and I have backed that up onto my external drive so in effect I have belts and braces.
If the drive suffers a complete failure I can replace it and by using the Image-Transfer method "clone" it.
Also if the computer crashes then I can simply re-image using the .v2i files on the external drive and in my case 6 - O/Ss in 45minutes.
Now that is what I call excellent software and it is reliable.
Deric
Well hopefully someone can tell me how to get what I have to work without having to buy another drive for imaging or waiting for the windows disks to come. I would also state in defense of my preconceptions that having a choice in the menu labeled "Copy my hard drive" raises "false" expectations in one as ignorant as I.
It's a five minute fix.
Put the new drive in all by it'self, with the other drives disconnected.
We keep mentioning that because it's important at this point.
You only want the new drive attached that has the autocheck error.
Boot to the Ghost recovery disk and go to Utilities > Open a Command Prompt
Type regedit
Then follow Brians instructions here from the 4th line:
Dave
Dave, I don't think Alan's Win7 disc has arrived yet. He could try this...
Boot from the Ghost 15 CD
Analyze
Open Command Shell Window
Type "regedit" (without the "") and press Enter
Click to Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Click File, Load Hive
Click the drop down arrow in "Look in"
You will see your Windows partition has a C: drive letter.
Browse to C:\Windows\System32\config
Select SYSTEM and click Open
In Key Name type ABC
OK
Click the + next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the left pane
Click the + next to ABC in the left pane
Select MountedDevices in the ABC group
Press Delete on the keyboard
Yes
Select ABC in the left hand pane
Click File, Unload Hive
Yes
Close Registry Editor and the Command Window
Exit Ghost 15 and remove the CD
Boot into Windows
I am comfortable in regedit and dos prompts. I have nothing to loose on a drive that I can start over with anyway.
I will give it a try this evening.
Thanks
Ok, I am looking at the drop down in the load hive screen
Your instructions state that the windows drive will be c:
This is not the case
The system_drv partition is C: and the windows partition is D:
On my old drive the system:drv partition did not have a drive letter.
Will your instructions work in thes scenario?
Thanks
Also it’s a 64 bit system system 32 correct?
I followed the instructions exactly. Windows failed to start recent hardware or software ect ect
Insert your windows disk ect ect
At the bottom tatus oxcooooooe
Info the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible
So the Windows partition was D:
I assume you worked on D:\Windows\System32\etc
So the Autochk is gone. Now you need to do a Startup Repair. If you don't have the Win7 disc make a System Repair CD...
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2855-system-repair-disc-create-windows-8-a.html
Win7 should be similar.
Yes I worked on D:
autochk is gone
Original drive is back in the machine.
I will give the repair disk creation a shot sometime tomorrow.
Thanks
At this point I am thinking I did not choose the path of least resistance.
Typical of me
Did you use a cloning app before you tried Ghost?
Edit.... In your current Win7 on the laptop, can you run Regedit and look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/MountedDevices.
Look at the Values in the right hand pane. Do any start with #
These will likely be at the top of the list.
Well, possibly because I have chosen Lenovo ? There is no choice other than system restore in my recovery pane nor is the recdisk command recognized in the run bar. I am beginning to think a trip to staples for an external drive to image on is the best idea?