Hard Drive Cloning Issues

[Wiggly Jiggles]

Hey Techies,

 

Apologies if this should be in the Operating System forum.

 

I am upgrading my dads laptop, and one part of which includes an SSD upgrade. He has an old Hitatchi HDD of 320GB and I'm putting him in a Crucial BX200. 

I'm using my tower PC to do this, as I can hook up hard drives.

 

I started with Acronis True Image, but once the cloning has started it required a restart which then attempted to boot into the source drive, which I can't do because the cloning is being done from my OS drive.

 

So next I chose AOMEI. My issue here is when I clone the drive (and it works fine) it just says that the SSD is not bootable, even though the drive appears to be identical. Can anyone help me with this, I'll provide any screenshots as necessary.

[Enderman]

stop trying to clone to an SSD and do a proper clean install

[Kirky2k15]

stop trying to clone to an SSD and do a proper clean install

Yeah best way IMO.

 

You could just copy all his data (C:\Users\his username here) inc all app data (app data folder is hidden by default so make sure you enable view hidden items...

 

This will copy all favourites etc from Chrome...

 

Then just manually browse if he's put anything he wants to keep in root dir of the c: drive...

 

Copy it all to USB stick

 

Build the new windows on the SSD

 

Copy all his data back on 

 

Done

[Wiggly Jiggles]

 

stop trying to clone to an SSD and do a proper clean install

I want to do this, but I don't have his windows product key. And his current laptop came with 7, he's now on 10.

 

 

Yeah best way IMO.

 

You could just copy all his data (C:\Users\his username here) inc all app data (app data folder is hidden by default so make sure you enable view hidden items...

 

This will copy all favourites etc from Chrome...

 

Then just manually browse if he's put anything he wants to keep in root dir of the c: drive...

 

Copy it all to USB stick

 

Build the new windows on the SSD

 

Copy all his data back on 

 

Done

Great idea If I can do a fresh install....

[Enderman]

 

 

I want to do this, but I don't have his windows product key. And his current laptop came with 7, he's now on 10.

if the laptop drive has windows 7 on it you can use a keyfinder to get the key out

or look on the bottom of the laptop, the key is usually there

you can use this key to activate windows 10, which you can install for free from a USB drive

 

if there was windows 10 on the hard drive then you can just make installation media and install windows 10 from a USB drive and it will be activated

[Wiggly Jiggles]

if the laptop drive has windows 7 on it you can use a keyfinder to get the key out

or look on the bottom of the laptop, the key is usually there

you can use this key to activate windows 10, which you can install for free from a USB drive

 

if there was windows 10 on the hard drive then you can just make installation media and install windows 10 from a USB drive and it will be activated

It's asking for an activation key, but I've said I don't have one, and I'll see how it goes.