I have had the same experience with a Mini 1012. I have purchased an OCZ Vertex 2 60GB drive and duplicated the partitions using Acronis. I kept the first two partitions the same size and shrank the C drive so it would fit within the 60GB. The partitions are recognised on the laptop with the SSD as an external drive after cloning.
When I swapped the SSD in I also got the "The Boot Selection Failed Because A Required Device Is Inaccessable" error. I have checked in the BIOS and the drive is recognized. I tried a couple of SATA settins in the BIOS but was unable to get any other result. Old disk back in, the mini going again but no upgrade.
SSD upgrade successfully completed, and it has made a great improvement to the performance.
Steps to success 1. Image existing drive to the SSD - im my case I used Acronis, Clone Disk command, manually keeping partition sizes, which shrinks the last partition to fit onto the smaller SSD.
2. Make a bootable USB image of the Windows 7 install (see steps later)
3. Boot from the USB device (F12 at startup)
4. Repair the windows installation. The repair finds a problem with the boot process and offers to fit it. Select yes, reboot and be happy!
So, all I needed was a repair, but as the 1012 would not boot the repair had to come from an external boot device.
Windows 7 provides a tool for creating a bootable USB from you existing media. In my case I had an ISO of the Windows 7 installation. Steps to create bootable USB are:
To make a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file:
Click the Windows Start button, and click Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool in the All Programs list to open the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.
In the Source File box, type the name and path of your Windows 7 ISO file, or click Browse and select the file from the Open dialog box. Click Next.
Select USB Device to create a copy on a USB flash drive or select DVD disk to create a copy on a DVD disk.
If you are copying the file to a USB flash drive, select your USB device in the drop-down list and click Begin copying. If you are copying the file up to a DVD, click Begin burning.
ejn63
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June 11th, 2010 09:00
Did you make sure NOT to boot the system with both drives in it the first time you started it up after cloning?
Hollandk
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June 20th, 2010 16:00
I have had the same experience with a Mini 1012. I have purchased an OCZ Vertex 2 60GB drive and duplicated the partitions using Acronis. I kept the first two partitions the same size and shrank the C drive so it would fit within the 60GB. The partitions are recognised on the laptop with the SSD as an external drive after cloning.
When I swapped the SSD in I also got the "The Boot Selection Failed Because A Required Device Is Inaccessable" error. I have checked in the BIOS and the drive is recognized. I tried a couple of SATA settins in the BIOS but was unable to get any other result. Old disk back in, the mini going again but no upgrade.
Have you made any progress?
KiwiFred
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July 8th, 2010 19:00
SSD upgrade successfully completed, and it has made a great improvement to the performance.
Steps to success
1. Image existing drive to the SSD - im my case I used Acronis, Clone Disk command, manually keeping partition sizes, which shrinks the last partition to fit onto the smaller SSD.
2. Make a bootable USB image of the Windows 7 install (see steps later)
3. Boot from the USB device (F12 at startup)
4. Repair the windows installation. The repair finds a problem with the boot process and offers to fit it. Select yes, reboot and be happy!
So, all I needed was a repair, but as the 1012 would not boot the repair had to come from an external boot device.
Windows 7 provides a tool for creating a bootable USB from you existing media. In my case I had an ISO of the Windows 7 installation. Steps to create bootable USB are:
To make a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file: