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F2 was stipulated by who??
You've got an Acer. It could be any F key or Delete.
You have to find out the right key yourself via Google.
The mrimg file of 21 GB looks about the right size.
Can I copy OS drive on HDD over to SSD in same laptop?
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New #32
The screen will show you which key to push to bring up the Boot Menu, you have to watch the screen, it`ll be quick.
For example, my Boot Menu key is F8.
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New #33
Clemen, how big is your image file you created with Macrium ?
Tell us in Gigabytes, I don`t have my Abacus out right now.
Right click and choose properties, it will show you the size of the image.
We need to see how big that Image file is.Last edited by AddRAM; 16 May 2020 at 10:03.
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New #34
It's 21,899,586 kb per post 28;
22 gigs.
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New #35
Ya I wasn`t gonna sit here and figure it out, much too late ah wait a minute, make that it`s too early.
Macrium is telling him he has insufficient space on the target disk (the new SSD) he has to shring C first, then make his image.
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New #36
By Acer - I RTFM'd !!!
That's what I thought/hoped you'd say.
@AddRAM
12 screws and a lot of "easing off" to open it up, apparently - I'd already googled to see about extra RAM (only 8GB, tho that's enough for screen-capturing only).
I used to build my own desktops but my hands can't be trusted any more.
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New #37
Clemenzina:
I'm not sure what is going on, but obviously a 22 GB image file WILL fit on a 120 GB SSD.
If you don't care about what is now on that SSD, you could delete all partitions from it so that it is totally empty and then try the restore again.
We are all assuming you have used the right menus in the Macrium restore process.
And we are assuming the image file you made contains the required partitions to restore Windows........in your case you should have chosen ALL partitions on the source drive.
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New #38
Yes Clemen I understand, working on a laptop is a whole other ball game.
Take your time with it, no reason to rush. Take a break and come back to it later.
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New #39
You can worry about the F key later. Boot menus can be tricky to bring up. Maybe tap once a second, maybe twice a second, maybe hold down. Maybe try a dozen times until it finally takes.
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New #40
I deleted all the folders on the D-drive, and didn't see any partitions on the SSD in Macrium... maybe they don't show up?
I had to recreate a Snapshots folder to do the ones above, as the software didn't have anywhere to put them.
I am sure I used the right Macrium menus, and I checked that all the tick-boxes on the HDD partitions were ticked, I didn't have to do anything.
This laptop is an absolute mess - not of my making
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