Building a new drive

[burns334]

Folks, can I build a new bootable drive with a Rocketfish hard drive enclosure using AOMEI partition assisant? ie Hookup Rocketfish thru the usb connection and then migrated current system in laptop to the drive in the enclosue? I have product keys, not trying to skirt issue.

burns

[rkawakami]

From the looks of it, AOMEI Partition Assistant (Standard Edition) is able to clone from one drive to another. As long as it can "see" the USB-connected hard drive in the enclosure, then I guess it should work. My preference would be to connect the new drive via an Ultrabay HD adapter as I believe that allows for a faster data transfer than USB.

[burns334]

Do you think I should try with the known good drive in the computer or the Rocketfish carrier? Edit: Well that's what I tried and everything seemed to go fine, then I went into the bios and set the T43 to boot from the Rocketfish and got to the first splash screen and then a blinking cursor in upper left corner the I put in laptop it goes does the same thing . Any suggestions folks?

[burns334]

Folks, no luck. I tried migrating the OS several times without able to do much different. Formated drive first, played with allocation size, all seem to work but the drive does not boot. I took it out of the rocketfish enclosure and put in the laptop, same thing, first screen and then the blinking cursor. Also tried to boot the known good drive from the rocketfish and that does the exact same thing. I'm going to purchase a HD caddy and give it a try from that.

burns

[RealBlackStuff]

Put the original in the enclosure, and the to-be-copied inside the hard drive bay.
Boot from the Aomei (or Acronis or other) CD.

[burns334]

Put the original in the enclosure, and the to-be-copied inside the hard drive bay.
Boot from the Aomei (or Acronis or other) CD.

RBS, I tried that but when the original is in the Rocketfish the machine will not boot, just goes first splash screen and then prompt in upper left corner

Burns

[burns334]

Update: I purchased an ultra enclosure to hold the hard drive and tried to clone with the drive to be cloned in the enclosure, it seemed to clone normally, a wipe then a copy, when I put it in the laptop slot after the clone, nothing but a prompt. So then I went with the RBS method of putting the original in the enclosure, changed the boot order in the bios and booted the machine, all fine. Then I inserted the to be cloned drive into the machine, power off, battery out and started up the machine. The machine booted all they way thru going online but at the very end the machine blue screens with the serious error has a occured and shuts down and tries to restart. I started to do this to try and simplify building a new drive instead of using the cd's but have wasted a lot of time already. Anyone with any other ideas?

Burns