software i try either fails for windows 8.1, or just makes things worse. I don't use any.Įvery other hd cloning etc. I didn't know you could unlock the HDD to SSD feature by posting a link in social media. Because Win 8.1 is on a USB connected drive rather than on an internal drive like XP and Vista are I don't honestly know if it would boot from the restored image. I have used the WinPE bootable CD I created to restore XP and/or Vista from their images but, TBH, I haven't, yet, had to try to restore Win 8.1 because I've only had it installed for about 2 months and haven't done anything to mess it up. When I tried to do a one click system backup with both the Vista and XP drives connected, it appeared to back up both drives at once (at least the image file size indicated it had). My Vista drive is my "C" drive in my laptop and my XP drive is in a modular/media bay caddy. I do disk images using high compression, smart sector copy and VSS.
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I run Windows 8.1 (not 8) from a USB connected drive I created with AOMEI Partition Assistant's Windows to Go Creator feature which does require either the Win 8.1 ISO or DVD because it uses the install WIM or install ESD (from which it extracts the WIM) from the source folder. I don't have multiple partitions on my system drives like system, recovery, etc.
I thought my main issue was the mbr not being gpt but even after converting the ssd to gpt it still have same issues.Ĭlick to expand.I don't have an SSD.
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Mdonah - You said you used this software with windows 8 with no issues, could you please tell me how to got this to work because i am lost at this point. I kind of wanted to use my ssd instead of my regular HD for the speed.I could have just simply freshly installed the operating system on the ssd and save(d) alot of time but that's not really the point considering i want to be doing this every now and then. The system clone option also didn't work for me It keeps missing a partition regardless if i choose to clone or back up and restore image.Īlso the system clone option didn't need a full paid version, i was able to unlock it by posting their software via social media and providing a link to said post. I get a blue screen saying to insert a cd or recovery media to restore my OS.
I opted to clone as opposed to back up an image and restoring because to me it seemed less time consuming.Įven when i backed up an image and restored it to the SSD i still get the error same as when cloning. Windows 8 seems like more trouble than what is worth At that point i plugged in the 2nd hard drive and it appears to be cloning as i am writing this message now. So what i did was unplug my 2nd hard drive which was going to be the ''back up'' one, restarted my computer and then Easeus started from the bootable cd.
To my dismay it would once again do the same thing over even though i was now using a bootable cd. Since this wasn't working i just made a bootable cd and tried again. I didn't feel like making a bootable cd so i was just putting the bootable file on the hard drive. So i wasn't even able to launch Easeus from within the bios all the computer would do is go straight into a black screen with a underscore blinking white line ( it would stay like this forever).Įven after i disabled all drives except for the one that had the bootable Easeus file program it would still do the same thing. After cloning is succesful it seems to delete said file from hard drive or at least that's what it did when i did it on my laptop. I dont even have a cloned drive yet, this is what i was trying to do but it wouldnt let me.īy bootable file i meant the one that Easeus creates on the hard drive that will be the ''receiver''.
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