A SanDisk Ultra II (480 GB) just came in the mail today. Throughout the install, I have run into a multitude of problems and found solutions to everything, except when it came to booting Windows off the new drive.
First, I tried cloning my entire hard drive (1TB capacity, ~415 GB used) to the SSD using Macrium Reflect migration software. When trying to boot off the SSD after cloning, I got a disk read error. I checked the files on the SSD and it seemed to be a perfect clone, except that the partitions were marked differently than the ones on my old drive. I assumed that was the problem, so I deleted the partitions on the SSD in disk management, and went for a clean install of Windows.
I booted off the Windows 7 installation disk I used for my original install on the old drive, and selected the blank SSD, all de-allocated space. I let the install run, and after the OS files were copied and expanded, the install did the first reset. After resetting, the computer tried booting off of the SSD, but again, there was a disk read error.
I tried a second clean install, got the same results.
Any answers to why Windows refuses to run off my SSD?
Specs:
First, I tried cloning my entire hard drive (1TB capacity, ~415 GB used) to the SSD using Macrium Reflect migration software. When trying to boot off the SSD after cloning, I got a disk read error. I checked the files on the SSD and it seemed to be a perfect clone, except that the partitions were marked differently than the ones on my old drive. I assumed that was the problem, so I deleted the partitions on the SSD in disk management, and went for a clean install of Windows.
I booted off the Windows 7 installation disk I used for my original install on the old drive, and selected the blank SSD, all de-allocated space. I let the install run, and after the OS files were copied and expanded, the install did the first reset. After resetting, the computer tried booting off of the SSD, but again, there was a disk read error.
I tried a second clean install, got the same results.
Any answers to why Windows refuses to run off my SSD?
Specs:
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition CPU
Zotac GTX 560 Ti video card
8 GB Kingston memory
Seagate Barracuda 1TB hard drive
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) OS