Using Windows 7 Pro Image Clone just will not work HELP

[Meridiusuk]

Hi all

I am pulling my hair out here as i just can not restore a windows 7 pro image backup to a 128gb SSD.

I have a samsung f1 1tb drive which has a 48.7gb partiton and a 882gig partition. The windows boot drive c is the 48.7gb Partiton and the larger one is for stroage.

I have used windows 7 pro image clone and make an image of the C: partition of the drive which is 45gb full and have stored it on a usb drive.

Now i have formated the SSD drive as i have got windows 7 pro on there but theres far far to much work for me to get it back to the way it is on my samsung drive.

I followed this guide

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/7702/restoring-windows-7-from-an-image-backup/

now where it says

In the next screen just click on Next…there are no other partitions in this instance so we don’t need to worry about excluding disks.

in the exclude menu i checked to see if the ssd was in there which it was and was unticked.

but when i get to the

The restore process will begin. It might take a few hours to restore everything depending on the size of the image and how much data there is. Provided there are no errors and the process completes successfully, your system will restart and the system should be restored.

it says can not find a drive to put the image restore on ?

I have tried disk part and it shows that there are 2 hard drives there one ssd on a sata and the other on a usb with the image on there.
I can not for the life of me get it to put the image clone on the ssd drive.

am i doing somthing wrong can anyone help.

I have even tried to format the ssd and it still wil not work

please please help me here

thanks

 

[Rab]

try with only the ssd connected to motherboard, then install the OS, some boards seem only to work that way.
g/l

 

[zakblood]

agree with above as its happened to me more than once, only connect boot and dvd/cd-rom then install, data drives add once windows loaded, so much easier, had it also done on usb stick, installed fine, but wouldn't boot after installed with stick left in, even though hdd and cd/dvd was set to boot only.

daft boards and bios some

 

[wazza300]

its easier to clone the drive rather than create an image backup,with cloning its ready to go as in fully bootable ect

macrium reflect

you cant try it now though as youve formatted the original install

 

[Meridiusuk]

try with only the ssd connected to motherboard, then install the OS, some boards seem only to work that way.
g/l

Don't think you understand I am not trying to install the os I am trying to install a image of the os I made from my 1tb 50gb partition to the sdd 128gb partition.

You can not install any image backup without two drives or one drive and a DVD backup

 

[Meridiusuk]

What I have been reading is that windows 7 pro does a clone of the drive but if the drive is bigger than the new drive it will not work even if the c drive is only a 50gg partition as its still configured for a 1 tb. Which I be honest is stupid thing to do by Microsoft.

The ink way you can restore a windows 7 pro image Is if the drive is the same size or bigger and it does nt matter if the drives partition is smaller than the new drive your putting it one as I still knows its a 1tb partitioned drive

Only way is to do a new install or use 3rd party software of use the same size drive or bigger.

What a pain in the ass this is.

 

[Meridiusuk]

its easier to clone the drive rather than create an image backup,with cloning its ready to go as in fully bootable ect

macrium reflect

you cant try it now though as youve formatted the original install

Cheers might look into that it does not install loads of crap does it as I have herd a lot of free stuff puts loads of bloat ware on your system

Cheers