hard drive - Migrate Windows 8.1 from HDD to SSD Error

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2014-07
  • Diego D

    I’m trying to migrate my Notebook HDD (Asus q550lf-bbi7t07 with Windows 8.1 OEM) to my new SSD drive (SSD Intel 530 Series 240Gb).

    I tried to clone the original drive to SSD drive with many tools:

    • List item
    • Intel® Data Migration Software
    • EaseUS
    • Acronis
    • Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 (I bought the full license)
    • MiniTool Partition Wizard
    • GParted
    • Asus Backtracker (installation failure)

    In all cases Windows worked properly for 2 or 3 minutes and then its throws me a “blue screen of death” and redirect me to the BIOS (The BIOS does not recognize the drive until I turn off and turn back the PC, then everything repeats...)

    I tried to install a clean Windows 8, but I can't because when I have to select the Partition to be installed, its throws me an error (code 0x80070002)

    I think it may be an error related to UEFI.

    Any of you went through the same situation as me? What should I do?

    EDIT: Disk Management Screenshot Disk Management Screenshot

    Thanks

    • Answers
  • Song

    In my case, "Samsung Migration" doesn't work on windows 8.1. Ofcourse there's no problem on Win 8. But the "DriveClone" works on Windows 8.1 properly. I recommend you to use it. "Ease us" worked good too.


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  • tunack

    Let's call the 2TB HDD old install and the 64GB SSD new install... both are running identical Win 7 x64 builds. Here's what I'm thinking:

    • Windows Easy Transfer for profile migration
    • Map "special folder locations" (desktop, prog files, docs, etc) in the new install to the 2TB drive
    • Dump the registry from the old install into backup.reg
    • Replace all occurrences of special folders with new locations in backup.reg
    • Import backup.reg into the new install.

    Has anyone attempted something like this? I've searched to no avail.

    Aside: I've pulled something like this off on XP with a bit of troubleshooting. I've thoroughly explored the innards of 95/98/2000/xp and a fair bit of 7x64 so far... tempted to take the leap.


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  • Sandeep Bansal

    I would do a fresh installation, and then work in migrating your settings over from the older drive you have.

    Go through, install whatever program you had on and then copy over the appdata to keep your settings.

  • tobias

    If there is no issues with the old install (2TB) and you just want to move the install to the new disk (ssd) I'd use a disk cloning utility to move the whole package to the new disk.

    You'd need to of course re-partition the old disk to have OS partition that fits to the ssd. And best have all folder links disabled or moved to point only to OS partition before cloning.

  • spapakons

    Make sure you move all data to another disk so as Windows, programs and user files are less then 64GB. Then clode the old hard disk to SSD with Acronis as suggested. It could boot as is, else use Windows 7 DVD-ROM to "repair" starup problems and it will work. To be 100% sure, use manual cloning and select to leave the partitions as they are (no resizing). I have done that many times (cloning small disk to new larger). If you do it properly, so save yourself many hours of reinstalling everything from start, let alone the hours of backing up tons of data!