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| Thread ID: 113857 | 2010-11-07 03:57:00 | Can I Clone Partition C to SSD | CliveM (6007) | Press F1 |
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| 1150903 | 2010-11-07 03:57:00 | Can I Clone Partition C of a 500GB HD to a SSD using Active@disk Image? It seems to make sense to me but I thought I would seek more expert advice before proceeding further along this track. I have installed a new SSD 160GB in my desk top. It is initialised and formatted and is currently Disk E with nothing on it. Partition C is 130GB and contains operating system (W7 64), programs and data. I want to move everything over to the new SSD then change the boot disk in bios and wipe the old C disk and use it for backups in future. If I am off track please let me know. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1150904 | 2010-11-07 04:54:00 | Never tried it - cant afford SSD drives - But it does support SSD Drives - If it wont clone, what you can do is make an image to an external drive, then image that back to the SSD. I've had to do that with Customers Normal HDD's when the OS is so badly corrupted it wont clone (to save their data) before reinstalling the OS. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1150905 | 2010-11-07 04:55:00 | Yeah that should work, as long as your cloning app picks the relevant disks you should be sweet with that. cheers, |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 1150906 | 2010-11-07 06:12:00 | Thanks for that. I will report on the results tomorrow :) | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1150907 | 2010-11-08 02:42:00 | Ok the cloning using Active@disk Image copied everything from C to my new SSD drive E. Now I want to change the SSD drive to C. How do I do that? I got myself into quite a tangle trying to do it in disk management. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1150908 | 2010-11-08 02:45:00 | If you disconnect the Other drive, the SSD "should" automatically change to C, as long as there are not other HDD's attached. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1150909 | 2010-11-08 02:54:00 | If you disconnect the Other drive, the SSD "should" automatically change to C, as long as there are not other HDD's attached. Though so. Thank you Wainuitech |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1150910 | 2010-11-08 03:50:00 | Though so. Thank you Wainuitech No that does not work. System hangs before the windows startup screen reporting a problem with windows and sugesting a repair install option. At a guess the "clone" has not cloned everything and is missing the boot files. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1150911 | 2010-11-08 03:52:00 | Using the Win7 disc should repair the boot files if that is the problem | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1150912 | 2010-11-08 03:59:00 | Using the Win7 disc should repair the boot files if that is the problem Looked at that but system is frozen at that stage. A reboot does not help as the CD/DVD drive is ignored on boot for some reason. If I reconect the original C drive everything runs as normal. |
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