I'm replacing my HDDs with SSDs. On the first drive I tried to swap out, I tried using Macrium Reflect to clone the 2TB HDD (WD Black) to a Samsung 850 EVO SSD and found out (the hard way) that cloning an MBR drive to a GPT drive will convert the GPT to MBR, which meant half of my new SSD was inaccessible. After converting the SSD back to GPT and reformatting it (quick format), I used FreeFileSync to copy my data on the 2TB HDD to the SSD. However, when I removed the HDD and replaced it with the SSD, then changed the drive letter on the SSD back to the drive letter of the original HDD, after a few minutes, the drive would disappear from Computer and Management. When I rebooted, chkdsk would run, supposedly fixing any problems, then after Win 7 had been running for a few minutes, either the drive would disappear again or Windows Explorer would stop running and the computer would freeze up. This happened several times until I got ticked off enough to swap the original HDD back into the computer. After booting up again and changing the now changed drive letter on the HDD back to original drive letter, everything seems to be working just fine.
What the big fat hairy heck went wrong? Is the problem related to the switch from MBR to GPT? Was a folder/file syncing (FreeFileSync) the wrong program to use? Did I mess up the SDD beyond repair? I've got a small fortune invested in this change-out and I can't get past the first drive.
What the big fat hairy heck went wrong? Is the problem related to the switch from MBR to GPT? Was a folder/file syncing (FreeFileSync) the wrong program to use? Did I mess up the SDD beyond repair? I've got a small fortune invested in this change-out and I can't get past the first drive.