SSD not re-imaging window7

[s0crates]

My wife has a Toshiba Satellite and I am replacing her HDD with a Mushkin 120gb SSD. I shrunk the HDD partition to about 50gb and put it on an external USB and created the recover disk. Then I popped the new SSD into the Toshiba and got it rolling. The BIOS recognize the SSD but I got an 0x80042412 error saying that the system could not re-image because the disk was not found.

I used the command prompt, DISKPART sees the SSD, I formatted and set it up there: disk list shows 111gb free on partition 1, ntfs, offset 1024. Active

I tried the re-image again and I am still getting the same error.

I have been reading and trying to figure this out for about 2 hours now with the same result. Does anyone have any suggestions? I think I'm doing everything right but who knows.

 

[kenrivers]

Is the new partition an active partition? If not, that could be part of the problem. This link may have an answer for you regarding the error code: http://www.sevenforums.com/backup-restore/65205-re-image-system-disk-fails-error-0x80042412.html
Did you create a disk image or simply copy the partition to the USB drive? If you have the original disk you could try cloning the disk to the new SSD. A clean install of the OS is most often recommended as being better than cloning the drive. If you don't have the OS disc then cloning may be another option. I have cloned drives on at least three computers and have never had any problems. Did the drive come with any cloning or data migration software?

 

[s0crates]

Is the new partition an active partition? If not, that could be part of the problem. This link may have an answer for you regarding the error code: http://www.sevenforums.com/backup-restore/65205-re-image-system-disk-fails-error-0x80042412.html
Did you create a disk image or simply copy the partition to the USB drive? If you have the original disk you could try cloning the disk to the new SSD. A clean install of the OS is most often recommended as being better than cloning the drive. If you don't have the OS disc then cloning may be another option. I have cloned drives on at least three computers and have never had any problems. Did the drive come with any cloning or data migration software?

I created a disk image of the partition. No cloning software came the SSD. I would like to avoid a clean install if possible. I set the partition as active in DISKPART so I am completely lost.

 

[kenrivers]

What did you use to create the disk image? I have trouble in the past with the disk imaging software from Microsoft (Backup and Restore) as it was very picky about the new drive.

 

[s0crates]

What did you use to create the disk image? I have trouble in the past with the disk imaging software from Microsoft (Backup and Restore) as it was very picky about the new drive.

I used the win7 system image tool. I had no idea this was going to be such a hassle. I thought it would be a quick afternoon job. Tomorrow, I am going to try to clone the HDD using Partion Magic or clonezilla.

 

[kenrivers]

Let me know whether or not that works and let me know if you have any further questions.