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    Restoring Windows 8 backup to a brand new SSD (hopefully not a typical SSD upgrade question!)

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by duhmojo, Apr 2, 2013.

  1. duhmojo

    duhmojo Newbie

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    Hi all.

    Just received my Windows 8 Sony S15 this morning after scanning this forum for info on whether it would be a superior purchase. So thanks right off.

    I ordered a 256GB Samsung 840 Pro and 8GB stick of ram at the same time. The ram is in and everything sees ok when booting off the OEM hard drive. I don't have a USB transfer cable to the SSD drive, so I thought I would straight system backup/restore from the old drive to the new SSD drive. The backup was 26GB to a USB drive, then I burned a system recovery DVD.

    After powering down and swapping the drives, I booted into the DVD recovery mode, and went into the Advanced menu and tried restoring the backup. The backup was located fine on my USB drive, but I kept getting an error at the start complaining about error 0x80042412 that "No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found..." with a bunch of unhelpful notes. Typical MS error message. Which disk are they referring to in that message?!? The USB or target SSD drive? They're both involved in the recovery of the system disk, and the recovery app finds both drives fine. (I don't even have to pick the source and target)

    Anyways, I kind of dug up a note somewhere that the SSD drive needs to be formatted. (partitioned and formatted I assume) So I dove into the CMD Prompt from the Recovery Disk Advanced menu. I tried simply getting the SSD drive recognized as C: from the CMD Prompt. Basically I selected disk 0 (the SSD), created a primary partition, selected it, quick formatted it was NSTF, then activated it. After reboot, from the CMD Prompt, C: was the empty SSD drive. (yay!)

    However I still get the same damned error when trying to restart the backup!

    Anyone have any suggestions? I want to get this SSD going so I can transfer over the important bits from my older laptop and move on with my life.

    Thanks!
     
    duhmojo, Apr 2, 2013
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  2. JonsConspiracy

    JonsConspiracy Notebook Enthusiast

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    My understanding is that you need to partition the original HDD to be smaller than the new SSD. Every though the recovery files are smaller than your SSD, it still wants the drive to be the same size or bigger. So you have to go back and partition the HDD first, then run backup, and then restore from that.

    I haven't done this myself, so maybe someone else can confirm. I have an SSD waiting once my Series S 13P arrives in the mail.
     
    JonsConspiracy, Apr 2, 2013
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