(Used Windows Backup and Restore to create a System Image, then replaced the hard disk, then restored. Tried various other copy-tools but they wouldn't work via the SATA interface plugged into my USB socket. Note that Windows *did not* get the hard-drive alignment correct when it did the restore. I checked the alignment using a tool called AS SSD Benchmark, then fixed it using the MiniTool Partition Wizard.)
All seemed to be running well enough, but Windows Update wouldn't work and the underlying problem was the "The Cryptographic Services service failed to initialize the Catalog Database. The ESENT error was: -583." error in the event logs.
Checking the System32\Catroot2 directory there was a dberr.txt file containing lots of JET and other errors. The database files seemed to be missing under the {F...some-guid} folder.
The problem is something to do with Windows not understanding the "Advanced Format" of the new disc - something to do with 4096 rather than 512 byte sectors.
Using the Microsoft fsutil tool confirms this. [Try googling "Microsoft Advanced Format Support" or something similar - there's a patch that you need to get installed that includes this tool and allegedly Windows support. Since Windows Update isn't working, it errors when you try to install it. You need to use 7-zip to grab the CAB file from the archive and then install that manually (somehow - google!).]
Try "fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:" in an elevated command prompt and you'll see:
The Bytes Per Physical Sector will be "not supported".
Now you need to get a suitable driver. There doesn't seem to be a correct one labelled for the W500, but one that works is in a package which lists the W510 as supported.
Look for:
| Windows 7 64bit, Windows Vista 64bit, Windows XP | 11.2.0.1006 | 28 Mar 2013 |
on the Lenovo site.
Run and extract that, and then go to Device manager and update the driver for the
IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers -> Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller device - browsing to the directory that you just extracted all those files to. (It'll pick up the file automatically.)
Before you reboot, you might as well stop the Cryptographic Service and rename the System32\Catroot2 directory.
After you reboot, you should see that this directory gets rebuilt and log files appear and disappear as that's happening. [Other posts mention this taking an hour, but that's probably on a standard HD. On the SSD, it took about 5 minutes.]
The fsutil command should now give you 4096 instead of "not supported".
Try Windows Update again!
