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    Installing a SSD in A Vaio and having trouble

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jmacster, Aug 30, 2012.

  1. jmacster

    jmacster Newbie

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    Thanks for all the helpful folks here!

    I am a Mac user helping a girlfriend with her Sony :)

    Sony Vaio Model: SVE141D11L
    I case it matters yes it's also PINK lol

    I bought her a Crucial SSD and a small USB3 hard drive case.

    I formatted the new SSD in the drive case and installed Norton Ghost on her Sony. Then I restarted , this machine is literally a few days old so I suppose it is running the latest windows 7 OS.

    I ran the ghost application and checked the box that said : Set Drive Active (for booting OS)

    I think that it what i should have checked?

    ANyway I see I Disk Manager a lot of things:

    Disk 0 : 18.50GB Healthy (Recovery Partition)
    System Reserved : 350mb NTFS (system, active, Primary Partition)
    (C) 577.33 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Partition)

    SOOOOOOOO, when i run Ghost does it make all these nifty partitions too? DO I have to divide up this new drive along with formatting it?

    I tried to clone it 2x and each time i swapped out the original with the clone I get the DOS type screen telling me I have no OS

    Help a confused Mac user out here please! :~)

    J
     
    jmacster, Aug 30, 2012
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  2. ngvuanh

    ngvuanh Notebook Deity

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    First question, what is the model of her Sony?
     
    ngvuanh, Aug 30, 2012
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    buiquanghung Notebook Enthusiast

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    Why dont you install fresh Windows 7 instead of Ghost?
     
    buiquanghung, Aug 30, 2012
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    Yea i would say dont even bother with ghost just format and do a fresh install.

    also i know on some sony laptops (sony S13/S15) you have to boot in legacy mode with an SSD or it wont see an OS.
     
    RefinedPower, Aug 30, 2012
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    Rhoel Notebook Guru

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    when i swapped to SSD (crucial M4)... i just used the recovery usb drive that i prepared when i got my vaio... i didn't initialized my ssd...just swapped the ssd with the hdd...boot normaly in UEFI as my recovery was done under UEFI (coz when i tried to boot legacy it didn't go...so im assuming it did a UEFI based recovery drive)... wait for a few minutes for windows to load...then another like 30-40 mins for all the apps to install...then uninstalled vaio gate, evernote, symantec, norton backup... then im done!
     
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  6. pyr0

    pyr0 100% laptop dynamite

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    If you use Ghost, just clone disk to disk, not partition to partition. This copies MBR and stuff and it should work straight away.
     
    pyr0, Aug 30, 2012
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    jmacster Newbie

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    thanks for the replies.!


    I want to just clone this disc., I Can start up this machine with the Ghost CD and then do this somehow right?



    J
     
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  8. jmacster

    jmacster Newbie

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    Sony Vaio : SVE141D11L
     
    jmacster, Aug 30, 2012
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    jmacster Newbie

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    If someone has an E Series Vaio

    How do I start up with the Ghost CD? I tried to but then could not see the clone type set up only recovery type setup in the ghost screen

    J
     
    jmacster, Aug 30, 2012
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  10. ngvuanh

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    Ghost can't see partitions in UEFI. You have to switch back to Legacy mode.
    When you start ghost, select Local -> Disk -> To Disk or To Image
     
    ngvuanh, Aug 30, 2012
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  11. jmacster

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    Can you walk me thru ? When I press the power button is there a special key to do what you suggest?

    thanks so much!

    J
     
    jmacster, Aug 30, 2012
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  12. darxide_sorcerer

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    right when you turn the laptop on, press and hold F2 to get into BIOS .
     
    darxide_sorcerer, Aug 31, 2012
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