The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Migrate to Samsung 830 SSD - problem cloning drive

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by fstr, Aug 2, 2012.

  1. fstr

    fstr Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    6
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I just bought a 256gb 830 SSD. I'm trying to copy to the SSD by using the included Norton Ghost and usb cable. Problem is I cant seem to figure out how to copy the various different partitions. First I tried just copying the "c" partition and setting it to MBR. Next I tried the "DellUtility" partition and setting that to MBR and then copying the "c" partition without setting it as MBR.
    Anybody been though this before and can tell me how to go at it?
     
    fstr, Aug 2, 2012
    #1
  2. Blair287

    Blair287 Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    87
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    You DO NOT want to clone a HDD to a SSD it can cause problems, reinstall windows from scratch.
     
    Blair287, Aug 4, 2012
    #2
  3. niko2021

    niko2021 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    93
    Messages:
    592
    Likes Received:
    6
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Agreed, I did the same fresh install for my ssd. Cloning an ssd to an ssd is safe, but never hdd to ssd. I read a while back about how the hdd starts writing data at a slightly different point than the ssd, so it'll lead to drive that's not aligned right.
     
    niko2021, Aug 5, 2012
    #3
  4. billybob9187

    billybob9187 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Yeah i actually was in the same boat as you 2 weeks ago when i bought mine and for some reason the norton ghost that comes with it doesnt seem to work well with cloning through usb. Could have been a solution I was overlooking as well but you do want to complete a fresh install though because i cloned with acronis and was having some speed issues.
     
    billybob9187, Aug 6, 2012
    #4