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Re: This was your mistake..
In reply to Richard,
5 months ago
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Richard wrote:
jamesdak wrote:
Don't assume, like I did, that it will be an easy trouble-free process necessarily. I have followed the instructions provided by others and all the well intended help of others yet have still wound up with a $1000 boat anchor.
So what I am dealing with is a new Dell XPS 8500 machine in which I installed my own SSD and attempted to migrate the OS to it. Originally using Dell's own installed recovery program to create the recover medium. And here is where I think (don't know) the true problem lies.
The first thing you do before any migration or hd replacement.
Use Macrium, which I know works. Install, create recover disk. Backup entire system (all the partitions on the current system drive and any other drives you have on your system to make sure you don't make a mistake and do a verify to verify the data) to an external hard drive. Insert recover disk and boot, this is to test if you can do restore. If you see the disk on your system and the external hard drive where your backups are stored and Macrium says you can restore to the system disk, you are golden. If not do not proceed.
You insert the original disk and restore to it and you are back to where you began. This is easy to do and very low risk.
Forget about the Dell recovery stuff, once you make a Macrium backup of all the partitions on your system drive, you can create Dell recovery disks till your hearts content.
Yeah, pretty silly to think the program provided by the computer manufacturer to create the recovery media would actually work. The process to create the media runs ok and does create bootable disks. They work right up to the point of actually restoring the data so kinda hard to test them all the way without actually using them.
Of course everyone has a best way to do this and the best program to do it with. Good luck if you are a first timer with deciding who's advice to follow...
I initially followed a set of instructions from this forum that were pretty much mirrored step by step with another set of instructions at a Dell forum. Worked fine for both of them so silly of me to think it would work for me, LOL!!
Even the responses to my OP here shows different folks doing different ways with success. Just not my case.
First computer buy where I didn't get OS disk and of course the first time I've needed them. Go figure...
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