migrating to ssd

I bought me an ssd, shoved it in and being hopeful tried alienrespawn from a hen which failed spectacularly. I wanted to use the flashdrive as the restore to just put the OS on the ssd and be over with it, skipping the backup partition as ssd space is fairly more precious than hdd one.

Can I shove the alienware win 7 image on it somehow? Also whats the fxxking point of making the usb backup image if it dont do CRap.

 

From everything I have heard I dont think many people have any luck with alien respawn, the only thing I hear on this site is people complaining about it.

 

Dont really care too much about respawn, just want to move factory win7 to the ssd, skipping the backup partition, as I dont want to waste space on it. Just don't want to waste time installing fresh windows with all the drivers etc. its just a load of trouble...

 

Indeed your best bet here is just a clean install.

I'd look at Batboy's guide in regards to alienrespawn and clean installs but I'm fairly certain that it's just a crapshoot whether it works or not espeically if you're migrating to a smaller HD.

The point that Batboy made in regards to the alienware respawn was that at least you have a factory image if you want to restore it to the original HD.

I too was hoping to use that factory image on the SSD.

You can always try more advanced imaging suites in regard to cloning the hd without the partition but again, better off just installing windows as there can be unforseen reprecussions wasting your time.

 

I had this problem too, so what I did was to clone my HDD to my SSD.
Maybe after you do that you could use the USB with alienrespawn to 'clean' the SSD. After all, the alienrespawn is only to make your pc come back to the factory state (I think thats why the partition is in the M11x )

 

well alienrespawn is useless beyond belief then... with 5gigs in the flashdrive i really thought it could do it... piece of junk... i even remember it having an option to restore from USB flash or restore partition's image... whats the bloody deal with that...?

UPDATE: I am pissed off beyond belief as my alienrespawn USB ed up my whole toshiba OEM HDD and i basically don't got a windows 7 image or recovery, i got Error 0x4001100200001005 when trying to restore into the SSD, apparently its because of non OEM HDD or something, but got same error on my OEM TOSHIBA, it ed up all partitions, and im basically stranded on ice. ing awesome.

this seriously. alienrespawn even harder. I had enough of this , will just install a clean win7 and crack the hell out of it to make me feel better if it doesn't suck the OEM CD-KEY i got...

sorry for the language, but this fxxking sxxks

 

guys ive helped out countless people in the m14x section. I have used respawn on a smaller 128gb ssd from a 500gb drive there is a trick. When it ask which option to use reset to factory you would think this is what you want right. WRONG! I always got an error saying not enough space on the HDD for the image well all i did was choose restore and the backup file whis the factory restore uses is there select this and then boom it will work atleast it did for my M11xR3 and my wifes m14x.

 

i did try both options, both would give errors. From answers with error codes from some HP forums i didn't think existed i found that it is due to HDD not being OEM and drive having wrong letter... i did try formating it with win7 setup thing but it would make 2 partitions no matter what i did and i would still get error on respawn.

i just downloaded and installed OEM x64 win7 home premium from MS website. took a while but i did waste more time hoping to use respawn... if it dont work from the first time its not worth spending time making it work i suppose.

 

I believe it always makes 2 partitions, I don't remember what the 2nd partition is actually used for, but for my installs to SSD....windows makes a seperate partition with 100MB worth of space. (no matter which version of windows 7 I use).

 

TIP: To get rid of the 100Mb partition that Windows 7 creates do this:
Create your partition, I know, another 100Mb partition will be created.

Now, delete the partition you just created leaving only the 100Mb one that Windows created automatically.

Click it and you will now have the option to EXTEND it , choose that option and extend it as much as you like.

Notice how you got rid of it and can continue installing Windows without 'loosing' those 100Mb

Cheers

 

Well i had a simmilar problem when restoring my Alienware from USB to a standard raid 0 setup.

After a few hours of messing about It seems that the process of recovery is:

Boot from USB
Copy all files from USB to recovery Partition. <-- problem area
Start Recovery Process..

as i had a 32 GB usb flash drive I thought I may as well use the extra space to store documents and other files.

The recovery partition is only 14gb. once 14gig limit was reached and it couldnt copy any more I got the error described above.

Hope this helps the next person who is searching for a possible solution to their error.

 

I just went through this entire process a few weeks ago and after an immense amount of time and frustration I choose to do a clean install and just reinstall all my programs. I threw my itunes library onto a external hard drive and scrapped everything else. I know it's probably not the answer you were looking for but it saved me a lot of time by just giving up.

 

Did same thing, not worth the trouble messing with alien respawn and all that crap... clean install took roughly an hour with everything, spend 3 hours trying to get alienrespawn working with no success before that. yeah...