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Question

SSHD not recognized in the manager (MBR error 2)

Aug 28, 2016 1:37AM PDT

Hello,
My two old DD have a limited space and are reaching the end of life, so I wanted to replace at least my main HDD by a new SSHD (Sagate 1T) to continue my computer tower facelift (Studio XPS 9000, new power supply, new RAM, new graphics, new cooler and new CPU).
The OS is windows 7 pro, so I would have trouble to reinstall this one and therefore the cloning solution seemed the most ingenious one.
So I installed my new hard drive, have immediately found it in the disk manager. After initialization, I began the cloning process by Seagate DiscWizard software. Everything seemed to work perfectly until the restart of the unit, where an error message appeared on the BIOS : "MBR error 2" (it now appears each time I start the computer). After that it's impossible to find my new SSHD on any disk management software (windows, Aomis or DiscWizard).
Furthermore disk appears well on the BIOS, and its status is normal.
Does that mean that the disk is now unusable?
Otherwise it is possible to regain access to it?

Thanks by advance, and sorry for my bad english, it isn't my mother tongue.

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/Pm5VeZYiQZZCjDeLvsQ3ewi

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To me that means the clone job failed.
Aug 28, 2016 9:22AM PDT
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While you are reworking that machine.
Aug 28, 2016 9:22AM PDT

I'd seriously consider checking to see if the BIOS is updated. That date is pretty old and my last Dell needed it.

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Sshd
Aug 28, 2016 9:25AM PDT

Unplug the sata cable from your original hdd.
Plug that cable into the cloned sshd.
Does it boot?

Btw.....your ram is a mess.

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Not sure if this is the solution but...
Aug 28, 2016 12:35PM PDT
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Update
Aug 28, 2016 2:30PM PDT

Thanks for all your answers, I have other information since my last post.
I had a different answer from the french version of the forum: I was recommended to try to boot my computer on an USB key and try again Disk Manager. I have not seen any improvement. It was thus necessary to only plug the disk which appeared to be defective and try to fix it via the Unbuntu disk repair. It was then that I realized that the cloning actually "worked" and the disc by which my computer was starting was therefore the new 1T, always with the MBR error 2. However cloning didn't work as I specified before in DiscWizard; the disc was copied identically, leaving little space for different partitions (150GB for each) while the software offered me to clone with proportional partition to the new hard drive size. No software displays the unallocated 700GB.
Now I fixed the MBR, but the disk still appears "damaged" in the BIOS.
http://i.imgur.com/phyOOQN.jpg?3
Moreover as they appear nowhere, I can't access the gb unused by the partitions.

Note : I still have two functional hard drives (RAID divided), with the system files and a backup of my main drive on an external hard drive.
I will try to find the last version of my BIOS

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That shows RAID 1.
Aug 28, 2016 3:01PM PDT

To clone the working RAID 1 drive you have to follow Intel's procedures to rebuild RAID.

https://www.google.com/#q=intel+rebuild+raid+1+replace+failed+drive for example.

If your OS is blown, you fix that first.

Let me write I think RAID 1 has not saved anyone I know. I've only found it to cause more troubles as the owners often think they don't need backups since "RAID 1 will save me the trouble."

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Raid
Aug 28, 2016 4:31PM PDT

I'm thinking that with your mirror setup the system will only see the size of the smallest disk.

If it was me I'd set this up simple.
No raid.
Single 1TB disk.
Develop a back up plan.

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No RAID
Aug 29, 2016 12:15AM PDT

Thanks all,
If RAID causes so much trouble, I quit !
Well to come back to an healthier way of using my hard drive what do you suggest ?
Should I just delete the RAID with the BIOS and format the hard drive ?
Then, should I just reinstall the OS or can I clone my files from my old hard drive ? Would I turn up my "lost" free space ?

But thanks a lot for your help.

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I won't write RAID causes trouble. ****
Aug 29, 2016 8:59AM PDT

I will write that it does place more demands on the owner. Not only in backup, recovery, care and feeding but why space goes missing (fine example here!)

In the past I would use RAID 0 for speed, RAID 5 for servers and now with SSD drives no need for RAID 0 and there are now other than RAID 5 to consider.

Not to dive into RAID here, you setup your machine as you see fit.

**** Title edited by moderator for lost word.

Post was last edited on August 29, 2016 12:53 PM PDT

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Raid
Aug 29, 2016 12:37PM PDT

I don't have a raid setup so I can't tell you how to back out of it.

The first thing I would do is make a clone of your array.
I would use a boot able clone util.
That's just in case things go wonky as I'm trying to back this out of raid.

Next look in your raid software for options.
Look in the bios for raid options.

No matter what you do if it turns into a mess you can always spin back your clone.

If you can get it out of raid then the 1TB unit should show it's full size.

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Now it's ok
Aug 30, 2016 12:42AM PDT

I used the Configuration Utility of the BIOS to delete the RAID 1, it went very well and I didn't loose any data (http://www.intel.fr/content/www/fr/fr/support/boards-and-kits/000006188.html). But in the case it would turn in mess I had a back plan.
Now I have my 700GB back, and I can use them without any issue.
Thank you very much for your help, I will learn more about the RAID in the future.