Clone to SSD Failed to Boot

[jeffkohsuke]

I have a Acer Aspire 5742-6638 running on Core i5-480M on Windows 7 64 bit. I'm trying to clone my hard disk to a SSD. Tried with using Paragon Drive Copy and EaseUS Todo Backup. Both says cloned successfully but both failed to boot. I inserted the boot disk but still did not boot. I had no problem cloning a regular hard disk on the same laptop. I also used the same software to clone a Lenovo latop to a SSD. It was successful. I don't know why this laptop can clone to a regular HD but not SSD. Need help please.

 

[jeffkohsuke]

I would back up whats needed from the functional hard drive and start again from scratch with a windows 7 disk (you have the code on the machine somewhere). Cloning o/systems is always a short cut.
With an SSD, widows updates takes about 2 hours. I wouldnt mess about with cloning software to be frank.

 

[jeffkohsuke]

Thanks for the quick suggestion reply. I had also loaded the Windows 7 image recovery disk to the SSD, the same no boot came up. That is got me all confused!

 

[gbb0330]

I have a Acer Aspire 5742-6638 running on Core i5-480M on Windows 7 64 bit. I'm trying to clone my hard disk to a SSD. Tried with using Paragon Drive Copy and EaseUS Todo Backup. Both says cloned successfully but both failed to boot. I inserted the boot disk but still did not boot. I had no problem cloning a regular hard disk on the same laptop. I also used the same software to clone a Lenovo latop to a SSD. It was successful. I don't know why this laptop can clone to a regular HD but not SSD. Need help please.

try clonezilla, i've used it several times, no issues.

 

[jeffkohsuke]

I have a Acer Aspire 5742-6638 running on Core i5-480M on Windows 7 64 bit. I'm trying to clone my hard disk to a SSD. Tried with using Paragon Drive Copy and EaseUS Todo Backup. Both says cloned successfully but both failed to boot. I inserted the boot disk but still did not boot. I had no problem cloning a regular hard disk on the same laptop. I also used the same software to clone a Lenovo latop to a SSD. It was successful. I don't know why this laptop can clone to a regular HD but not SSD. Need help please.

try clonezilla, i've used it several times, no issues.

 

[jeffkohsuke]

Thanks. I'll try that next.