I just bought a Samsung 840 SSD. I'm intending to use it as a system drive. My HDD has three partitions: "System reserved", a windows partition and a data partition (which I do not intend to clone).
I downloaded Clonezilla and installed it onto a USB stick. The first problem I had was that the program didn't recognize the SSD at all. I fixed this by rebooting into Windows and created a single partition onto the SSD and formatted it. After this, I succesfully cloned my Windows partition. However, Windows still didn't boot from the SSD (and I did check that the data itself had been cloned)
After a bit of googling I got the impression that the System reserved partition should also be cloned, so I then shrinked my SSD partition with Windows Disk Management and formatted that too. I then cloned the SR partition too...
...to no avail. I removed my HD drive and checked that BIOS has the SSD as a boot drive. Alas, There doesn't seem to be a boot sector on the drive.
I tried running System repair from the Windows 7 installation disc, but it didn't find anything to repair; at this stage the repair software didn't list any operating system.
I saw a guide mention an option in Clonezilla to clone the boot loader, but I didn't see such an option at all.
What's the next step I ought to take? I'm wondering whether it's a problem that my Windows partition is now before the System reserved partition on my SSD?
I downloaded Clonezilla and installed it onto a USB stick. The first problem I had was that the program didn't recognize the SSD at all. I fixed this by rebooting into Windows and created a single partition onto the SSD and formatted it. After this, I succesfully cloned my Windows partition. However, Windows still didn't boot from the SSD (and I did check that the data itself had been cloned)
After a bit of googling I got the impression that the System reserved partition should also be cloned, so I then shrinked my SSD partition with Windows Disk Management and formatted that too. I then cloned the SR partition too...
...to no avail. I removed my HD drive and checked that BIOS has the SSD as a boot drive. Alas, There doesn't seem to be a boot sector on the drive.
I tried running System repair from the Windows 7 installation disc, but it didn't find anything to repair; at this stage the repair software didn't list any operating system.
I saw a guide mention an option in Clonezilla to clone the boot loader, but I didn't see such an option at all.
What's the next step I ought to take? I'm wondering whether it's a problem that my Windows partition is now before the System reserved partition on my SSD?