Windows 10: I installed a SSD and performed a Windows recovery, but it did a recovery on the old HDD...

I installed a SSD and performed a Windows recovery, but it did a recovery on the old HDD and now my data is lost. Please advise on how to get data back?

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Installing Drivers in Recovery M4 SSD

I can't seem to figure out how to install drivers so that can copy my system image to new laptop hard drive. I went as far as to install a new inactivated windows 7 onto the hard drive so I know it works, but when I point recovery at C:\Windows\system32\drivers\disk.sys, I got an error something along the lines of "not relevant to system hardware" (or something like that I forget the exact wording).

I can list the drive in diskpart, and I made sure it is not excluded for copying the image, but after 3 days of fiddling, I still can't get it to work. Where is the driver that I need for recovery to be able to install an image to the new hard drive? I checked crucial website, but they don't seem to list drivers for M4. I assume that since I was able to install a fresh inactivated Windows 7 from a startup disk that the driver I need would be somewhere in that system so maybe I'm just pointing recovery at the wrong file?

 

Problem installing windows 7 from recovery dvd's

I recently bought a 120GB SSD for my old (2010) laptop.
I have made recovery dvd's from the previous HDD, replaced the HDD with the SSD, went in the BIOS to set the dvd drive at first boot.
Did the first recovery dvd in it, starting up laptop and I see the Asus logo and it just stays there.*Frown

I also tried the "Esc" button, this should get me in the boot menu but this does not seem to work either.*Frown

Then I took the SSD out and connected it to my desktop and saw there were still windows installation files on the SSD from a previous attempt windows 8.1 install (which did not work). Ok so I formatted the SSD, put it back into the laptop and tried again.

It's starting up, have the dvd drive at first boot, recovery dvd 1 in the drive, see the Asus logo and then nothing.*Bang Head :banghead:

 

Data recovery software

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