Recovery Partition is my Windows Partition without Drive Letter

[treborg]

I am trying to clone my laptop hard drive to a new SSD, but it continues to give me errors.

Somehow, my Win7 installation is on a partition that is only labeled as "Recovery" and "Active" and is not assigned a drive letter. The computer boots fine but will not clone.

My options under disk management when right-clicked only say "help". Anyway, I'm lost, and I can't just delete the partition. Any help is greatly appreciated. bobby

 

[rgd1101]

that is correct. Is should NOT have a drive letter. which cloning software are you using? are you trying to clone the whole disk or by partition?

 

[soupordave]

I just did one a few days ago. Your Win7 install is almost sure to be on your C: partition. Just clone the C: partition to the SSD then mark it as the active partition on the SSD. It should boot. You wont have the recovery partition but really don't need it because you will still have the old drive to clone again if needed. It worked for me.

 

[treborg]

that is correct. Is should NOT have a drive letter. which cloning software are you using? are you trying to clone the whole disk or by partition?

I tried Acronis at first, and it just gave me an error (full disk clone), and then went with Macrium Reflect (full disk clone) Macrium cloned, but when i inserted the ssd, it wouldn't boot. I got "gave me "autochk.exe" not found and went to a blue screen.

Basically, my windows installation is on that Recovery partition. I think it needs it's own, but i'm just not adept at creating the structure all from scratch. Although windows doesn't assign a letter in disk management, it's strange because all the 3rd party partition softwares see it as C:.

 

[rgd1101]

I tried Acronis too when my HDD was failing, and at the end, I use clonezilla to clone the disk http://geekyprojects.com/cloning/how-to-use-clonezilla-tutorial/

If the SSD is smaller then the HDD, and you want to clone everything, use something like EaseUS® Partition Master to shrink your c drive first.
Read the tutorial to clone using clonezilla.

 

[sally1234]

I am trying to clone my laptop hard drive to a new SSD, but it continues to give me errors.

Somehow, my Win7 installation is on a partition that is only labeled as "Recovery" and "Active" and is not assigned a drive letter. The computer boots fine but will not clone.

My options under disk management when right-clicked only say "help". Anyway, I'm lost, and I can't just delete the partition. Any help is greatly appreciated. bobby

YOU HAVE TO USE ACTIVE PARTITION RECOVERY TO DELETE THE NAMELESS DRIVE THEN YOU USE COMPUTER MANAGEMENT GO TO DISK MANAGEMENT ON WINDOWS 7 OR 8 THEN CREATE SIMPLE VOLUME THEN ASSIGN A DRIVE LETTER TO THE NAMELESS DRIVE. YOU WILL SEE THE DRIVE SHOW UP IN COMPUTER