Ssd Drive

I have a new m.2 ssd drive that I have been using reflect to try to clone too. I have the new drive plugged into an a sata adapter but it never pops up. You can go to disk manager and it sees it there as unallocated space, do I need to format it first? I have tried cloning it twice and reflect says completed but it won't boot and when you look at disk nothing is there. Thanks Michael

 

After you complete the cloning, you have to reboot to see the changes. Have you done that?

 

What SSD in particular?

 

I tried a few different ways, I used the adapter and made a backup of original drive on a separate pc and then restore file onto new drive. I also put origianl drive back in and tried to clone directly from original pc to usb adapter with new drive installed.
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MyDigitalSSD 128GB Super Boot 2 (SB2) 42mm M.2 2242 NGFF SATA III (6G) SSD Solid State Drive (128GB 2242)

 

Have you tried a clean install yet?

 

Well I tried with easeus and it failed halfway through. It want let me do it again because of not enough unallocated space. I tried to go to disk manager and delete the partion and start fresh but it won't let me delete it.

 

Try a clean install, not cloning.

 

The system partition is NOT where Windows resides. It is on that second partition labeled OS. You should not be cloning partitions; but, rather the entire physical drive which is what is causing your problem.
If you do a fresh install, be sure to choose the advance options, delete the existing partition on the SSD, and then choose Next. Windows will create the partitions it needs to function automatically. Within Windows setup, it will let you delete it.

I have a different question. Why did you buy an M.2 SSD? Do you have a SATA converter kit so you can put it inside the PC or a PC which has an M.2 connector inside?

 

I am cloning the whole disk, I guess since it failed while doing it thats what was left. Is there a software that will let me delete what is there so I can start over. Disk manager is giving me that error. It a tiny dell box and it came with a 32gb m.2, thats the only connection for a drive.

 

Reflect will let you delete the partitions before you try the cloning again; but, this time, don't resize anything until after you have seen it work, OK?
Read this carefully:
https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW/Cloning+a+disk

 

I found that a mSATA drives in a SATA adapter, plugged into a 'toaster' or UBS adapter,do not work. You have to get a real mSATA enclosure like thishttp://c773974.r74.cf2.rackcdn.com/437383_416859_02_front_thumbnail.jpg

 

Make and model of laptop please.

Do you have any original XP CD(s)? Looking at the 450MB Recovery partition, have you pressed F8 at startup to run the Recovery Program? Have you tried AOMEI cloning software?

My recommendation is back up the data if you haven't already, and reinstall the OS. You can use a USB stick for the backup. The screenshots you provided are from a running OS, not the XP install process. You don't need to rewrite the 500 MB partition. Or alter it's size. Or modify it in any way. It is the MBR, or master boot record. You cannot delete it from that application. It will be overwritten by the cloning software or the install process should either occur.

You could try only cloning C: instead of the whole drive. You could also use migration software to move all the apps and data.

XP may not be able to utilize that particular storage drive properly. Or speak the firmware. Older software kernel XP is. USB works and sees a device, but it's still an M.2 and and XP.

 

Both of his pictures show the hidden "System" partition which is usually only there if it is Windows 7,8, or 10. Why do you think it may be XP? (I don't)
And lets not get into the issues of XP and misaligned blocks on SSD's!

 

I got two threads caught up in my head. Still want the machine info.