Difficulty replacing hard drive with SSD
I have a 1tb SSD. It has an image on it that is for one of my laptops. It has 945GB on M drive and 11.5GB on N drive. I do not need this image. I want to use this SSD in my desktop workstation as it's drive 0
I did not format the drive thinking that a 98%image would overwrite what it found. I used Casper free edition to make the image. The Casper instructions are very poor. It did say that the image was complete.
I tried to boot from the SSD and it said that it needed up to an nour to ffinish its task. I waited 3.5 hours and it never progressed.
I forced a shutdown and put the original drive 0 in as normal
1. Should I, when trying this for a second time format the SSD drive? The SSD is being identified as drive M with 95% of the available space and drive N listed as RECOVERY. How do I handle the N drive?
I did not format the drive thinking that a 98%image would overwrite what it found. I used Casper free edition to make the image. The Casper instructions are very poor. It did say that the image was complete.
I tried to boot from the SSD and it said that it needed up to an nour to ffinish its task. I waited 3.5 hours and it never progressed.
I forced a shutdown and put the original drive 0 in as normal
1. Should I, when trying this for a second time format the SSD drive? The SSD is being identified as drive M with 95% of the available space and drive N listed as RECOVERY. How do I handle the N drive?
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nobus and all the experts, thanks for your information. In the future I will be far more specific when I present a problem.
need a clue - why not post the specs now? what disk models?
for SSd you best use the manufacturer's tools to check it; check their page
for SSd you best use the manufacturer's tools to check it; check their page
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