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I have an Acer Aspire 5051 AWXMi laptop that failed to boot - the dreaded blue screen. It was running 32 bit Windows 7 Home Premium. I also have a smaller laptop running the same OS and decided to use cloning software from MiniTool and migrated the OS from the hard drive to an SSD - hoping to improve speed of the 5051. The SSD was connected to the small laptop with usb to IDE adapter, because the hard drive in the 5051 is an IDE not a sata drive. The migration appeared to be fine and all files including the OS were transfered to the SSD, but on placing the SSD into the 5051 it would not boot. From a trawl of the internet it appears to be a common problem, but I have failed to find a solution.
Some years ago I had obtained a Windows 7 Easy Recovery Disk from NeoSmart, so I installed the SSD in the 5051 and ran the ERD. I chose Automated Repair, but it comes up with the error in red print "Unable to find any valid Window partitions"
I selected the command line option and tried to use 'testdisk'. Not really sure how to use it, but I was able to cycle through the options for changing the status of the partitions. Partition 1 is listed as Smart System and Partition 2 contains the folders, files and Windows copied from the small laptop. I was able to change the status to *primary boot partition. I tried this for both partitions, but with no success - the SSD would not boot. Any ideas?
Some years ago I had obtained a Windows 7 Easy Recovery Disk from NeoSmart, so I installed the SSD in the 5051 and ran the ERD. I chose Automated Repair, but it comes up with the error in red print "Unable to find any valid Window partitions"
I selected the command line option and tried to use 'testdisk'. Not really sure how to use it, but I was able to cycle through the options for changing the status of the partitions. Partition 1 is listed as Smart System and Partition 2 contains the folders, files and Windows copied from the small laptop. I was able to change the status to *primary boot partition. I tried this for both partitions, but with no success - the SSD would not boot. Any ideas?