Change the SSD of m17x R2

Hi everyone!

I have a m17x R2 with an old Samsung PM800 256G . I bought a 840 Pro 512G.

I made a Ghost of my old one with Acronis on a external HDD. Removed it, put the new one in. Then, boot on Acronis boot CD.

I clicked on restaure image , and then, I saw that the ghost contained C partition, MBR partition, FAT16 Dell Server Utilities partition and Recovery partition.

I just checked C partition and MBR partition, and make the C Primary and Active .


After the restoration, I reboot the PC and then it shows me: No Operating System founded.


Isn't the OS on the C: partition? Does I have to restaure the whole Disk, including Recovery, Dell server utilities, etc..?

Thanks a lot. :hi2:


PS: I know that the Ghost is good, because I already wiped out all data from the PM800 and used this same ghost to back in the data in this PM800, for partition alignment issue. And it worked.

 

Well, for one thing, there is a 100MB partition generated by windows at installation that contains bootloader information and other stuff. Without it, you can't boot at all.
Either way I'd restore the whole disk. There's no good reason not to include the recovery partition in my opinion.

 

Why don't u just use samsung softwares provided with the ssd?

 

I think I might know what is going on. The bootloader/MBR can be on a different partition than the 'boot' one. On mine I saw in disk manager that the wrong drive was the active so I changed it. Bad move. The next restart was the same failure as you 'no OS'. I booted from the win CD and run the fixes. Worked second time around

Just doing a full restore of all the stuff in the image 'as is' should fix it as well, I would think.

Good Luck

 

First time I used Acronis to restore an image to my SSD I ran into something similar. I only had one partition on the SSD (after secure erasing and re-partitioning), and I got the "No operating system found" message when attempting to boot. Now I know to create the 100MB partition for the bootloader first as an extended partition, then create the primary partition with the rest of the drive. Once I'm in Acronis, I'm sure to assign the right images to their partitions and it's good to go.

 

I recommend a clean installation.
I use all the time this instruccions: http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...install-ssd-instructions-recommendations.html

 

Ok, so I re-switched the SSDs and this time used Samsung Magician for cloning. Worked like a charm.

Thanks :hi2:

 

Great!

 

Awesome! It did seem like the issue was that you were missing the "System Reserved" partition.