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Intel SSD Migration Issue

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Agrajag

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Guys,

I hope someone there can point me in the right direction and pronto.

I got a 240GB Intel SSD.

I was transferring a 300GB Velociraptor (which I shrunk). It worked.

However, once it came time to swap, nothing worked.

BOOTMGR Is Missing

is my only info.

The partitions (before SSD) are as follows:

Disk 0 C: 195 GB NTFS Primary. 83 GB Unallocated (shrunk)
Disk 1 System Reserved 100 MB NTFS. D: 279 GB NTFS Primary.
Disk 2 E: 150 GB NTFS Primary. F: 548 GB NTFS Primary

Clearly the small page thing is on Disk 1 and I cloned the C: Drive.

How do I resolve this to get the system booting? I thought just swapping the cloned SSD with Disk 0 would do it.
 
1. "You need to make sure the boot is set to 'Windows Boot Manager' in the UEFI."
2. "another caution on this. Windows Boot Manager is stored in the NVRAM of the motherboard when you START Windows 7 installation. Usually (not always), when you clear the NVRAM of the mobo, either by using the jumper reset pins or removing the CMOS battery, you lose that Windows Boot Manager boot option and you won't be able to boot to Windows even though your OS drive is intact. A remedy to that is to start Windows 7 installation again and do 'Repair your computer' with it. When doing so, the repair won't see any errors and will just be finished as it is. After you restart the computer the Windows Boot Manager boot option will be back again"

Quotes taken from Sean's Windows 7 Install & Optimization Guide for HDDs and SSDs.

I got an Intel 335 240GB SSD for Christmas (you too?), and just now followed that guide to install Win7 fresh on it, booting using GPT instead of MBR, and it worked out very well.
 
I recall having a lot of difficulty migrating a friend's HD to a smaller SSD. It had something to do with the SSD being smaller, and it not working well because of that. Cloning to a larger HD partition is easy, but apparently it trips up when moving to a smaller one (even though you can shrink the old partition to smaller than the new one, it seems to be based on total HD capacity).

Maybe you are running into a similar issue? Search the web a little you'll find it is a common problem with people upgrading older larger HDs to newer smaller SSDs.

I recall I had to use GDisk on a bootable CD and clone the drive that way, then it worked.
 
Remove all drives except the one you want windows on (something you should have done when you installed, and you wouldn't be in this position now). Boot from a 7 DVD or 7 repair DVD and see if it can repair this mess.
 
The last response was the key (which I came to before I saw this). All is totally fine now including having two 240GB SSD's installed. One for C and one for D (my games drive). My son is interested in my going RAID on the SSD's (with both handling my C drive) but I'm not thinking that's going to be any better than the setup as is.

Just glad it's all working now. It's an older setup (Lynnfield processor on an Intel board that's now about 3 years old) so I wasn't sure what I'd run into but it's nice. Time to start saving for a new MB/CPU/RAM to really see this shine.
 
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