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The strange thing of it was that while the cloning process completed successfully, when I installed the Crucial M500 in the Asus, the ultrabook's BIOS didn't even see it as installed device, it only saw the SanDisk caching drive.After reading the above comments I also took the plunge and purchased the Paragon software, installed it, ran it only to find that the Crucial M500 still wouldn't boot.Meantime I found other articles on the web suggesting that the Asus BIOS and the Crucial M500 might not always play nicely together. The Hitachi drive was of GPT flavor.I had a brand new Crucial M500 240GB SSD on hand so my first reaction was: why not improve the response time by replacing the slower traditional HD with the SSD.Long story short, I made several attempts at cloning the 500GB HD to the 240GB SSD using Acronis TrueImage 2014 to no avail. This is not an attempt to talk up Acronis (or talk down the Paragon solution), simply a different experience along the lines of cloning a HD.In my case I started out with a brand new Asus UX302L ultrabook which comes from the factory with a 500GB 5400 rpm Hitachi hard drive (and a small SanDisk SSD, as a secondary drive, for caching). With the SSD in the external enclosure, the software successfully cloned the drive in about 20 minutes (fastest of any of the programs tried). The hybrid nature of the Momentus was the issue).In the end, I paid for Paragon's 'Migrate OS to SSD 3.0' ($19.95 with discounts available). After all of these failures and after installing and removing the SSD from the notebook literally dozens of times, I began to believe that possibly the hybrid Momentus drive was the problem (i.e.
However, in their various menu driven or default modes, I could not get the drive to successfully clone and boot.The fact that I was going from 750gb to 240gb appears may have been part of the problem, but everywhere I read said it was not a big deal. I have no doubt that I could have found a way to get the cloning done with one of these programs if I knew all of the right settings and was prepared for a multi-part procedure. None of these worked all failing to begin to boot (booted straight to bios) or failing with windows saying there were missing files. Migrate also came with software to draw the recover image from my original factory hard drive and copy it to a USB drive so that if I ever needed to go back to day 1, I still can.I am not trying to plug the Paragon software, but just wanted to relate my experience and hopefully save someone else the hours of frustration I experienced.įor all of these, I tried with the drives installed in the notebook and/or in an external enclosure when the software supported it. I removed the Momentus, installed the SSD, and for the first time, the notebook booted. For all of these, I tried with the drives installed in the notebook and/or in an external enclosure when the software supported it. I tried trial/free versions of Acronis True Image, EasUS Disk Copy, Clonezilla, DriveClone, Paramount Reflect, and Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite. I also did not want to invest in expensive cloning software that I'd probably only use one time.So, I began my search for another option. I wanted to connect the drives, press 'go' and have the software work. Windows said that winload.efi was missing-it was not and I am sure that this was a symptomatic error.I will admit to being new to GPT and UEFI/EFI and I was really not interested in complicated (to me) backup and restore procedures-and there are tons posted here and on other sites.
It allowed me to clone the disk, but it would not boot. It would not even start the clone process citing that the Momentus configuration was not compatible.Second, I tried the Seagate version of the Acronis True Image from their site.
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