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awemawson:
The image is about 28 Gb so much smaller than the target SSD which is 256 Gb. The transfer software I'm using is the image & restore fcility in Backup & Restore on control panel.  This generates a bootable CD to kickstart the operation. I'm not aware of a mirror function that would clone in this situation but, like Prince Charles, I'm all ears  :thumbup:

Brass_Machine:
Andrew... Ghost allows re-sizing. See my above post.

Brass_Machine:
PM Sent. I can walk you through this.

David Jupp:
The Samsung SSD either comes with their own cloning software, or you can download it from their site.

Weird things can happen though - I have wasted many hours trying to get a SSD to work correctly in my Samsung notebook, it kind of works but I have a strange boot delay (still in discussion with Samsung about that).

My point is that the PC itself could potentially have an issue with SSDs - maybe check if there are any BIOS updates available. Things seem to be much more complex with UEFI than they ever were in the old days.

You may also have to clear the CMOS memory of the PC to 'forget' the old HDD.

Good luck!

awemawson:
Well did you all hear the whoop of joy coming from East Sussex  :lol:

Today at long last I have finally cloned my original hard drive onto the Samsung SSD and it works - but oh what a a palaver - and many thanks to those who offered helpful suggestions.

The critical thing was the arrival today of the ordered "USB 3 to 2.5" SATA" cable - now the software that Samsung supply with the drive expects to access the new SSD this way - BUT IT COULDN'T  :bang:

As I didn't have the cable, initially I'd tried a 'back up and restore' using the Windows 7 inbuilt facility, but it hadn't worked, but had written something to the SSD drive.  Then I'd tried a 'universal SATA transfer kit' but the connectors were of such appallingly poor quality, they literally fell apart on first use so I wasn't prepared to trust my data and disk to this rubbish hence buying the dedicated cable.

The Samsung cloning software claimed that it couldn't see the SSD drive - I could see and identify it under 'Device Manager' on the control panel, and also in 'Disk Management but it was inactive. Eventually I found that Windows 7 was refusing to mount the drive due to "Drive Signature Collision".

The only way I could get past this error was to use the Windows 7 command level to run 'DISKPART', and with my heart in my mouth delete the two partitions that Restore had created on this drive. Then returning to Disk Management in Control Panel, I could create a new volume and format it NTFS.

So now it works, reboots amazingly quickly, and I'm off to download Fusion 360 which is what this was all about in the first place  :ddb:

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