I'm trying to move my Windows 7 partition to an SSD. No problem! Except I can't make the new partition bootable, and I've spent many hours trying.
Clonezilla did a great job on my entire disks for emergencies and it makes a partition that looks identical to its parent partition but it doesn't boot. I did a partition to new partition copy and a partition to image to a new partition, no good.
I tried the CD from my original Windows install, figuring that 'repair' would fix the problem since as we all know Microsoft is committed above all else to their customers.
Ha!!! I kid!!! It said "this CD won't work, try the right one", which translates to "Go fuck yourself" in Seattle.
I tried the Windows program that Samsung included with my new drive. It said 'no Samsung device' when I ran it without the Samsung drive, fair enough.
I ran it after installing their drive and it said something along the lines of:
Source: Drive C: (Samsung Evo)
Destination: Drive C: (Samsung Evo)
Which is pretty spectacular, apparently it was trying to copy the used blocks to the free space on the same device, wow.
It knew there was a Samsung drive on my machine but wouldn't do anything to access it.
Tried going to the Samsung site for advice:
They have an amazingly demanding password policy and an amazingly complex and intrusive sign up procedure. After a good 15 minutes including entering the s/n of the drive once and the model twice, my DOB (yeah, right) and a ton of other stuff that's none of their business, I finally got to 'email customer service' and at last "what is your problem?" and.... that was it. What looked like a pulldown was apparently a picture of a pulldown and I tried three different hardware platforms and three browsers and nothing could get me past that phony pulldown.
I'm absolutely not going to be buying another Samsung product.
Um... where was I??
Is there any way to make my cloned NTFS partition bootable? Or any way to do anything to move my bootable partition to a new drive? I'm also using GRUB and doing the Linux transfer to the new drive was trivial.
Clonezilla did a great job on my entire disks for emergencies and it makes a partition that looks identical to its parent partition but it doesn't boot. I did a partition to new partition copy and a partition to image to a new partition, no good.
I tried the CD from my original Windows install, figuring that 'repair' would fix the problem since as we all know Microsoft is committed above all else to their customers.
Ha!!! I kid!!! It said "this CD won't work, try the right one", which translates to "Go fuck yourself" in Seattle.
I tried the Windows program that Samsung included with my new drive. It said 'no Samsung device' when I ran it without the Samsung drive, fair enough.
I ran it after installing their drive and it said something along the lines of:
Source: Drive C: (Samsung Evo)
Destination: Drive C: (Samsung Evo)
Which is pretty spectacular, apparently it was trying to copy the used blocks to the free space on the same device, wow.
It knew there was a Samsung drive on my machine but wouldn't do anything to access it.
Tried going to the Samsung site for advice:
They have an amazingly demanding password policy and an amazingly complex and intrusive sign up procedure. After a good 15 minutes including entering the s/n of the drive once and the model twice, my DOB (yeah, right) and a ton of other stuff that's none of their business, I finally got to 'email customer service' and at last "what is your problem?" and.... that was it. What looked like a pulldown was apparently a picture of a pulldown and I tried three different hardware platforms and three browsers and nothing could get me past that phony pulldown.
I'm absolutely not going to be buying another Samsung product.
Um... where was I??
Is there any way to make my cloned NTFS partition bootable? Or any way to do anything to move my bootable partition to a new drive? I'm also using GRUB and doing the Linux transfer to the new drive was trivial.
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