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    In a bit of a Jiffy with SSD upgrade

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by kaiserken, Sep 17, 2012.

  1. kaiserken

    kaiserken Newbie

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    The situation...
    I've created a Win 7 image of my new ASUS UX32VD onto my external hard drive. I proceeded onto slapping in a new RAM stick and a Samsung SSD. I went into BIOS to make sure I was in AHCI mode and the priority drive was set to Samsung. I then clicked exit and the laptop boots me to a black screen asking me to "reboot and select proper boot device". I have my lacie external with the image plugged into my USB. Problem is all the USB drives are 3.0 but my external is a 2.0. Please advise me through the course of actions to take.

    I'm a super newb so please use layman verbage.

    Thanks mucho. :)
     
    kaiserken, Sep 17, 2012
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  2. maverick1989

    maverick1989 Notebook Deity

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    USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 so that is not your problem. In the BIOS, can you set the boot order to check the USB first? That might fix it.
     
    maverick1989, Sep 17, 2012
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  3. Peon

    Peon Notebook Virtuoso

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    Just grasping a straws but when you made the image, did you ensure that the 100 MB hidden partition was included?
     
    Peon, Sep 17, 2012
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  4. kaiserken

    kaiserken Newbie

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    Peon> nope. is there a way i can download the hidden partition? If by partition youmean the system recovery disc. then yes i did, but in a physical cd-r. I have an external cd-r drive. Is there a way to do all this if the partition file is stored in a different device? In this case, I have my Partition(system recovery disc) stored in a cd
    and the OS image stored in a external hard drive.

    Maverick> Can't seem to do that. I see two boot options
    PO: Samsung SSD 830 (thats the SSD)
    WDC WD10TPVT-00U4r....(have no clue what this one is)
    I tried both boot option and neither work.

    i just confirmed that the WDC wd10 is the external drive with the OS image. But still have yet to got it working.
     
    kaiserken, Sep 17, 2012
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  5. JOSEA

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    kaiserken, what program did you use to create the original image on the External drive? Normally to get an image on to the SSD you need to run the program that you used to create the image from a bootable CD or USB flash drive (such as ACronis, Paragon, etc) and have the external drive attached also.
     
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    kaiserken Newbie

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    All I did was went into control panel to create the system recovery onto the cd-r and the backup using the external hard drive... Should I swap back my hdd drive and try to do it again?

    I got some progress witht the cd-r recovery disc but ended up with a big red error!! sign after CDm prompt...
     
    kaiserken, Sep 17, 2012
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