Trying to clone my C: drive to an SSD, troubles...

Done...

Ty...

 

Do you want me to try & clone it again using Clone Disk on Hirens???

Ty...

 

Taking a break & cloning this as well...

 

Yes. Do you know how to "burn" iso-file onto USB drive?

https://www.hirensbootcd.org/burning/

And community version if Hirens
https://www.hirensbootcd.org

 

I have burned before, been many years though...

Ty...

 

Do I need to delete what is on my USB?

Or just leave it???

Ty...

 

Interesting question. It should be overwritten, but deleting will not hurt.

 

@mongoose333

On Hirens you should use Lazesoft Disk Image & Clone, I guess.

 

Hey...

Before I do ANYTHING, I just had a major revelation...

Earlier in this thread, way early, I had mentioned I was tired & forgot what I had done while trying to clone the nights before.

I was just heading over to format my USB, & I noticed my NEW drive, was not with C: drive any longer in Explorer, it is missing, (I assume because we cleaned it), so I went to disk manager, & this disk initialization popped up for disk 1...

"INITIALIZE DISK"

I NEVER SAW OR DID THIS BEFORE, THIS IS THE AREA THAT I GOT STUCK ON BEFORE WHEN CLONING, AS WHAT I WAS READING/GOING BY, SAID IT WOULD APPEAR, BUT IT DID NOT, I ASSUME BECAUSE I SCREWED WITH IT THE NIGHTS BEFORE...

I HAD NEVER INITIALIZED MY SSD...

What ever I did screwing things up, made this never appear in the first place...


I think this could have been my entire problem, maybe...

Ty...

 

I know you are off here for now.

Since I now know how to clean the SSD, & now have initialized the SSD, I am going to play around & try & clone Win 10 to it again as we discussed...

I will update here later, or get back with you when you return, I know you said you were busy tomorrow, so whenever you get back on, you will see this...

Thanks...

 

Hey...

Look...



I am currently texting to you on the new SSD...

Yay!!!

So, it would appear that is was the whole disk initialization after all...

All I did was initialize disk after you had me clean it up/delete it.

Then I just Cloned it/HDD, shut it down, switched SSD SATA to HDD slot.

Then it just booted right up, no issues whatsoever...

I will check back here tomorrow.

Thanks, & have a great day...

Sincerely,
Mongoose333

 

@mongoose333

Congratulations!

You can change its label to "NEW" to avoid confusion. And the screenshot of Disk Management would be more informative.

 

Thanks...

I also went & put the HDD back on, then made a Recovery for it on USB.

Also, quick question...

Instead of me making a recovery on USB for the HDD, couldn't I have done that with the NEW SSD, seeing how it was the exact same thing? lol

I wasn't sure so I put the HDD back in & made a recovery for it, lol

Threw this SSD back on & everything seems to work fine so far...

Here is that screenshot...

 

@mongoose333

What do you mean by "made a recovery for it"?

 

@mongoose333

Now you need to remove 3rd partition - first recovery one, then extend main partition, then repair last recovery partition (now it is shown as completey empty).

 

I made a recovery USB for my system, WINDOWS 10 64bit...

Remember, we had to format the USB & I lost that one...

I made a new one with the Lazesoft software...

Here are 2 screens showing what it said...

 

Waiting, lol

Even though I have done all this, I will never retain all this info, little here & there, but it is all just overwhelming to me, that is why I never learned it all in the 1st place years ago...

Thanks...

 

Assuming that SSD is the main drive now - i.e. disk 0:
launch diskpart
select disk 0
select partition 3
delete partition override
select partition 2
extend
exit
stay in command propmpt to repair recovery partition:
reagentc /disable
reagentc /enable

To view the status of recovery execute
reagentc /info

And you can post a screenshot of Disk Management again.

 

When I get to this command, reagentc /disable

It says it is already disabled, do I just continue to the next step?

 

@mongoose333

As for HDD, you can clean it in diskpart
diskpart
select disk 1
clean
exit

and then initialize in Disk Management and then create a new partition.