I want to boot Windows 7 from my new SSD.
I recently bought my first SSD, a Kingston SSDnow 120 GB. I already had 4 internal hard drives and one external connected to my ASUS P7P55D motherboard. Being short a SATA cable, I disconnected one of my two DVD drives and used that cable with the SSD.
I followed this Lifehacker article http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid+state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows to clone my old C drive onto the new SSD.
After finishing, I rebooted, changed my BIOS to start with the new SSD drive and got the following error message: "Reboot and select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key.
I then changed the BIOS back to my old C drive and loaded Windows and ran EasyBCD 2.2 to try and make the new SSD a boot drive. EasyBCD gave me the message An attempt was made to change the boot partition to a logical drive which is not allowed. The boot partition must be a primary partition. Please either select a different drive or convert the selected partition to primary first, then try again.
I also tried doing a repair with my iBuyPower Windows 7 CD and got the message: "This version of System Recovery Options is not compatible with the version of Windows you're trying to repair. Try using a disk that is." I'm still using Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit that came with the computer. I then went to MS site and created a new Windows system repair CD following the directions there. Ran System Recovery Options in it and got the same error message that it wasn't compatible with the version of Windows I'm using.
So, do I need to change my SSD to a primary drive? How is the best way to do that?
I recently bought my first SSD, a Kingston SSDnow 120 GB. I already had 4 internal hard drives and one external connected to my ASUS P7P55D motherboard. Being short a SATA cable, I disconnected one of my two DVD drives and used that cable with the SSD.
I followed this Lifehacker article http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid+state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows to clone my old C drive onto the new SSD.
After finishing, I rebooted, changed my BIOS to start with the new SSD drive and got the following error message: "Reboot and select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key.
I then changed the BIOS back to my old C drive and loaded Windows and ran EasyBCD 2.2 to try and make the new SSD a boot drive. EasyBCD gave me the message An attempt was made to change the boot partition to a logical drive which is not allowed. The boot partition must be a primary partition. Please either select a different drive or convert the selected partition to primary first, then try again.
I also tried doing a repair with my iBuyPower Windows 7 CD and got the message: "This version of System Recovery Options is not compatible with the version of Windows you're trying to repair. Try using a disk that is." I'm still using Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit that came with the computer. I then went to MS site and created a new Windows system repair CD following the directions there. Ran System Recovery Options in it and got the same error message that it wasn't compatible with the version of Windows I'm using.
So, do I need to change my SSD to a primary drive? How is the best way to do that?
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