Hello, I recently upgraded my Dell XPS M1530 laptop from Vista to Windows 7 with a clean install, also updated the old BIOS from it's original issue to the latest one from Dell's website. Everything was working fine. Then I decided to upgrade the HDD to a 250GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO.
I followed the six little cartoon instructions, thinking that I'd migrate everything over from my old drive with the included Disc Migration software. Plugged it into a USB port with an adapter that I bought (and a separate power line) and started the migration. It started migrating OK, but I noticed after a minute or so that the time remaining was over 6 hours. Since nothing was really on there except Windows and Avast, I figured rather than wait that long, I'd just reinstall Windows 7 again and it would take a lot less time, so I clicked the Cancel button without thinking about it too much.
Removed my old HDD, Installed the SSD in its place, but BIOS says "No boot sector on internal drive" and that's as far as it goes. F1 to try again, F2 to enter setup. I entered setup and it can see that there is a 250GB drive in there, but that's about it. It's not named or defined in any other way like they usually are.
So I took it out, reinstalled my old drive and tried to do the data migration again, but now neither the Migration software or the Magician software will recognize the drive. Also tried to find it in Disk Management and it doesn't show up there either. Obviously, I shouldn't have cancelled the first migration, but I did, and now I'm looking for ideas to solve the problem. Any ideas out there?
I followed the six little cartoon instructions, thinking that I'd migrate everything over from my old drive with the included Disc Migration software. Plugged it into a USB port with an adapter that I bought (and a separate power line) and started the migration. It started migrating OK, but I noticed after a minute or so that the time remaining was over 6 hours. Since nothing was really on there except Windows and Avast, I figured rather than wait that long, I'd just reinstall Windows 7 again and it would take a lot less time, so I clicked the Cancel button without thinking about it too much.
Removed my old HDD, Installed the SSD in its place, but BIOS says "No boot sector on internal drive" and that's as far as it goes. F1 to try again, F2 to enter setup. I entered setup and it can see that there is a 250GB drive in there, but that's about it. It's not named or defined in any other way like they usually are.
So I took it out, reinstalled my old drive and tried to do the data migration again, but now neither the Migration software or the Magician software will recognize the drive. Also tried to find it in Disk Management and it doesn't show up there either. Obviously, I shouldn't have cancelled the first migration, but I did, and now I'm looking for ideas to solve the problem. Any ideas out there?
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