Can't clone drive using Macrium Reflect..??

debitcardmayhem

JustAnotherQuestion have you tried running the diagostics program on W10 with compatibilty for W7?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/make-older-apps-or-programs-compatible-with-windows-10-783d6dd7-b439-bdb0-0490-54eea0f45938

jsmith9

Windows 7 will not have the driver for the WD Blue SSD. You will need to download the driver from the WD website. It has been a while since I used Windows 7 but I think you press F6 during boot to add the driver into the system from a floppy but maybe someone else on here can explain further.

JustAnotherSaver

debitcardmayhem said:

JustAnotherQuestion have you tried running the diagostics program on W10 with compatibilty for W7?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/make-older-apps-or-programs-compatible-with-windows-10-783d6dd7-b439-bdb0-0490-54eea0f45938

I see what you did there

And no I haven't.

I have in the past tried compatibility in W7 for previous W with little or no success which had me label it a load of crap and never bothered with it again.

jsmith9 said:

Windows 7 will not have the driver for the WD Blue SSD. You will need to download the driver from the WD website. It has been a while since I used Windows 7 but I think you press F6 during boot to add the driver into the system from a floppy but maybe someone else on here can explain further.

In what way do you mean W7 wont have the driver for the WD Blue SSD?

I connect it to the laptop via USB and W7 recognises it.

I've just connected it now to my PC to the actual motherboard and it recognised it straight away.

The laptop has no floppy drive and i have no floppy disks. Not sure how you would do whatever it is you just said tbh.

jsmith9

Yes it will recognise the drive through USB because Windows 7 has USB drivers it may also recognise the drive when you connected to the motherboard however as you said...

"It finished the recovery but then failed to boot. A required drive is missing. Must be something special about that HDD. "

You need the required Windows 7 driver for the solid-state drive in order to be able to boot from it

The bottom line is that you are trying to use modern technology i.e. a solid state drive with an antiquated operating system i.e. Windows 7

jsmith9

Windows 7 does not support your solid state drive you need to add the drivers into it in order that Windows 7 can access it properly

I have forgotten the procedure but I believe it involves downloading the w7 drivers from the Western Digital website and using F6 as you boot but I just can't remember

JustAnotherSaver

jsmith9 said:

The bottom line is that you are trying to use modern technology i.e. a solid state drive with an antiquated operating system i.e. Windows 7

I'm not saying you're wrong. All i'm saying now is what you've just said makes no sense with what I have done in the past ....

2 Samsung SSDs and a Crucial SSD installed in to Windows 7 without a problem. Just put Windows 7 on the drive and away i went.

So why is the WD SSD so different to the 3 SSDs i had no trouble with?

One is a Samsung 830 256GB which is a few years old

The other is a Samsung (i think 860 EVO? - just tried looking for the invoice but can't find it) 1TB which i bought in March 2020.

The Crucial one is a 60GB one and somewhere between 5-10yrs old anyway.

jsmith9

Yes but reading between the lines of your post what you did was installed your SSD and then installed Windows 7 from the w7 DVD

this is not what the op is doing they are trying to restore an image of an HDD Windows 7 system to an SSD - correct me if I am wrong

Neil_Jones

I really didn't want to jump in but I feel I have to.

The issue JSmith9 is referring is not the hard drive itself, its the controller the hard drive is connected to that you may need an extra driver for.  You don't need drivers as such for hard drives (including SSDs) but you may need them for the controller inside the computer.  However this situation almost always only occurs if you're either: installing Windows 7 onto a machine that's too new for it (a driver may be available), or you're using a technology (such as M2) that 7 may not  know what to do with out of the box (or the configuration of the computer is such that it's not as simple as "oh look, an SSD, can I use it?" from the installer point of view).

And Windows 7 has full support for SSDs, it has done ever since it was released.

JustAnotherSaver

Ok so can we do this a different way then as i've just failed at 88% with them both being plugged in to my PC and a new error code.

I would rather not lose the recovery partition that is on the laptop. It's useful.

So the laptop HDD is Disk 2 in this image. I don't know what SYSTEM_DRV is but i assume the Lenovo_Recovery is ..... the recovery partition.

I am wanting to clone to Disk 4 (forget that there's 2 partitions right now - the attempt failed so this will get restarted).

It's looking like i'm not going to be able to.

Is it possible to clone SYSTEM_DRV (I assume i need it?) and Lenovo Recovery to Disk 4 and then have a 3rd partition which I manually install Windows 7 to (either via DVD or USB) and use the W7 key that's on a label behind the battery?

Or wont that work?

And if it will or should work ... then is there a reason that Disk 2 has SYSTEM_DRV as the first partition and Lenovo_Recovery as the last one or does this not matter?

jsmith9

If it were me I would simply put the SSD in the laptop, install Windows 7 on it, customise it to how you want it, install any programs etc and when you are happy use macrium reflect to take an image of it