[SOLVED] Cloning a SSD using different PC

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Benja8151

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Hello!

I have an XMG A504 laptop with 60GB Kingston V300 SSD, which unfortunately I found kinda lacking the necessary volume. So I've recently bought a Samsung 850 EVO with 120GB and I'd like to clone the disks. I have already tried to clone them once using Paragon Hard Drive Manager utility(with default settings) - I have plugged them into my desktop PC. When I've tried to boot the laptop I got an error saying winload.exe is missing. I assume this has to do with cloning a disk using another computer, but is there an easy way to fix it? I will try some more software in the meantime.

Thanks for your help!
-Benjamin

EDIT: Solved.
 
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IF the 60GB SSD was originally in the laptop
And IF you are putting the newly cloned 120GB SSD into the same laptop...

...there should be no issue.

Are you absolutely sure you marked all the partitions when you cloned it? It seems as if you missed the System Reserved partition.
 
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This is common. Most free cloning programs DO NOT create the boot protocol. You generally have to pay for those programs that do. Acronis is a good one that is free IF you have a WD HDD in your PC, otherwise it is like $30 or something.

This error has nothing to do with using a separate computer to do the cloning, and it 100% software related.
 
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I don't know, I've tried True Image 2014 aswell and the problem is still there. I feel like I'll need to buy a SATA/USB adapter and clone it from the laptop, I mean I don't know what else I can try....

Except if I haven't used the right tool in TrueImage, but I just followed the Clone DIsk wizard.. There was an option not to resize partition to 120GB, but that shouldn't be important here right?
 
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Allright so I've tried to image the disk as well, no success, actually, it was even worse (didn't even give me a blue screen with error code). I have checked the partitions on my laptop now and I see that the system partition reserved partition is on the hard drive. Does that have to do anything with the problem?

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The image shows how the partitions are arranged when everything works fine, with the original Kingston 60gigs SSD. As I said the new SSD will be 120gigs. System reserved partitions still remains on the main hard drive, even if I replace the disk. I am just concerned that because it is untouched in the process of cloning, it somehow stays connected to the original disk and cant accept the new one. But that's just me speculating, I have no idea if it actually has to do with anything..
 
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Okay logical enough. I just can't understand why does it work with the old and not the new drive. I mean system reserved is still present on the hard drive, even when I use the different SSD right?
Anyways do you think I should copy system reserved from the hard drive onto the new SSD, which I have previously cloned, and then delete the system reserved from the hard drive?
 
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You can't just 'copy' that partition from one drive to another.
You need to determine why your clone/migration is not doing that.

So...
HDD - has the System Reserved and random data files
SSD - has the OS

Clone from one SSD to the other - it takes the whole SSD data. Which does not include the System Reserved which lives on the HDD.
 
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The 30 day trial of Acronis True Image does. (I think)
But probably not across multiple drives, as the OP seems to have.
 
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I have used Acronis True Image to clone drives. The full program (free with a WD drive and downloadable from WD's site) will work, but the free 30 day trial will not clone the boot loader.

There used to be TONS of great free HDD cloning apps but in recent years, with the rise of SSD popularity, more and more people need these programs, so they companies made them all "free trails" that do not close the bootloader and force you to buy the full program.

Two to look at are EaseUS and DriveImage XL. I have used both.
 
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Ah yes. Easeus and DriveimageXML. In my recent drive shuffling, I got confused between Acronis and Easeus....
But usually, I use DriveimageXML.

But usually, I don't clone...:na:
 
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Okay I figured it out. I image both partitions (C: and System reserved) onto and external drive, created restore boot DVD, plugged the new SSD in and used the DVD to restore bot partitions from external drive to SSD.

Thanks to everyone for your help! :D
 
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