Image to an SSD drive

[benn]

I'm trying to transition from a traditional hard drive to an ssd.
So imaging the working drive in use onto a file, and then placing
that
image file onto an ssd drive.
The problem is that when the ssd drive boots, just after the familiar
windows xp sound comes on, I get a message that says windows has
crashed, and if I wish to send a data dump to microsoft:
svchost szappver 5.1.2600.5512 ntdll.dll szmodver 5.1.2600.5755
offset 100b.
After this, the system just hangs.
Looking at the dump files it created (appcompat.txt*,
svchost.exe.mdmp) they were placed on the E drive!! (which is the
old
hard drive that was the source of the image, to which the ssd booting
should have no dependency on)!
If I disconnect the original hard drive, and boot with only the ssd
attached, it hangs even before the windows xp sound!! If I
disconnect the ssd drive, and boot from original hard drive,
everything works fine.
This leads me to believe that something in the ssd's windows install
(and on the image file) is pointing elsewhere for critical files
that
for some reason it doesn't have. Or, perhaps, since both drives
have identical contents, windows is getting confused as to the active
drive?
How can I troubleshoot why svchost is crashing at startup on the new
ssd drive that's been imaged with a known good os?
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[Paul]

I'm trying to transition from a traditional hard drive to an ssd.
So imaging the working drive in use onto a file, and then placing
that
image file onto an ssd drive.
The problem is that when the ssd drive boots, just after the familiar
windows xp sound comes on, I get a message that says windows has
crashed, and if I wish to send a data dump to microsoft:
svchost szappver 5.1.2600.5512 ntdll.dll szmodver 5.1.2600.5755
offset 100b.
After this, the system just hangs.
Looking at the dump files it created (appcompat.txt*,
svchost.exe.mdmp) they were placed on the E drive!! (which is the
old
hard drive that was the source of the image, to which the ssd booting
should have no dependency on)!
If I disconnect the original hard drive, and boot with only the ssd
attached, it hangs even before the windows xp sound!! If I
disconnect the ssd drive, and boot from original hard drive,
everything works fine.
This leads me to believe that something in the ssd's windows install
(and on the image file) is pointing elsewhere for critical files
that
for some reason it doesn't have. Or, perhaps, since both drives
have identical contents, windows is getting confused as to the active
drive?
How can I troubleshoot why svchost is crashing at startup on the new
ssd drive that's been imaged with a known good os?

When you "clone" a bootable C: partition, to a second storage
device, you're supposed to *unplug* the original drive,
for the very first booting of the clone. Once you've booted the
clone, all by itself, you shut down the computer again, then
connect up the old drive. Doing so, will avoid complications.
You can boot as many times as you want, with both drives
present, after booting at least once with the SSD by itself.

To fix it, reclone your SSD (copy the info over again). Shut
down the computer and disconnect the original drive. Reboot with the
SSD clone in place. After that, it should be clear sailing.

And I presume you already had a driver in place, for the
SATA port the SSD is using ? I suppose that has to be the
case, as otherwise you'd have had a problem using the SSD.

There are various techniques for optimizing operation of Windows
on an SSD. In some cases, this involves placing only one
partition on the SSD (C, and starting it at an unusual offset
from zero. The purpose of that, is to better align the natural
128KB block size of the SSD, with the partition you've just
put in place. This causes all manner of issues (many disk utilities
don't like it and will throw up warning dialog boxes), and
is something you may want to research a bit. You can always
continue on with what you're doing, but some of these "polishing"
techniques can squeeze a bit more of the performance
promised by your SSD.

This forum is a good place to start. I don't actively keep track
of the latest techniques in SSD polishing, so you'll have to
look around, to get some idea if this is the best way to
do things or not. If I could ever afford an SSD, I'd have
to go through the same series of experiments you are,
to find the best way to set it up, and I'd be looking forward
to hours of reading these kind of threads.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...h-stuttering-and-increases-drive-working-life.

Paul

 

[John McGaw]

I'm trying to transition from a traditional hard drive to an ssd.
So imaging the working drive in use onto a file, and then placing
that
image file onto an ssd drive.
The problem is that when the ssd drive boots, just after the familiar
windows xp sound comes on, I get a message that says windows has

whole buncha' stuff snipped...

What software are you using to clone the drive? Have you used this software
before with success? Why are you going through an intermediary file in the
process? Did you disconnect the old boot drive before trying to boot from
the SSD? What other drives, if any, are present on the system? Does the MB
support SATA natively or does it require drivers to be loaded? BIOS boot
device and sequence taken into account?

I would suggest that you try cloning direct drive-to-drive and then
disconnect all other drives on the system before attempting to boot from
the SSD. I've never had a cloning fail if the proper software and steps
were taken and SSD vs. rotating should make no difference to the BIOS.

 

[ElJerid]

I had exactly the same problem when I used Acronis True Image or Norton
Ghost to create the new partition on the SSD.
Then I tried XXClone (free):
http://www.xxclone.com
Simple to use and worked perfectly !
Hope this helps also for you.