Hi All,
I was trying to upgrade my Dell (Vista OS) Inspirton laptop by replacing the HDD with a Samsung 830 SSD as i was having problems with hard disk crashes before.
I was only using a 64GB SSD and the HDD was 320GB with OS on C:. Formatted my C: and did a clean os install using the CDs that were originally supplied with the laptop. The SSD is connected to laptop with a SATA-USB adaptor cable. I can see the SSD as unallocated 59.xx GB in the disk management from which i infer things are OK.
However when i tried copying the C: to SSD using ghost (selected options - Set Drive Active for booting OS, Copy MBR, Destination Partition Type - Primary Allocation and drive letter G: as selected by Norton Ghost). If it helps I have a 320GB HDD - C: 210.8GB ; D: 9.99GB (recovery); F: 77.2GB; Dell Utility Resource : 109.6MB.
I am trying to copy only C: to my SSD. The following is the extract of error message from Ghost:
Error EC8F17B3: Cannot complete copying of (C:\) drive.
Error EC8F0409: Cannot copy source drive to destination location.
Error E7C30010: Device \\.\PhysicalDrive1 cannot write 4096 sectors starting at LBA 10328320.
Error EBAB03F1: The semaphore timeout period has expired. (UMI:V-281-3215-6067)
My HDD may have bad sectors as it did crash before. But Chkdsk did not report any issues after i formated and did a clean install of OS. I then tried again ...but this time checking the option - Ignore bad sectors during copy. This time i got a copy failed message and here is the extract from Ghost's event log:
Error EC8F17B3: Cannot complete copying of (C:\) drive.
Error EC8F0409: Cannot copy source drive to destination location.
Error EA3905E3: Bad file record signature. (UMI:V-281-3215-6067)
Can you suggest anything so that i can resolve the issue ? Tried attaching snapshots ...but get an error message.