Clone disk -- will this work?
I have a Corsair SSD with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and also have Windows 8 Release Preview installed on a regular SATA platter drive.
I have a new Samsung SSD 256 GB that should be arriving this afternoon.
I plan to make two partitions on it, One for Windows 8 and one for Windows 7 and then I can dump the Corsair SSD and remove the older platter drive.
I have other data and backup drives in the system.
I have never used the Clone Drive that I see in True Image Home 2012. I am wondering if I can install my new SSD with two partitions and then use Clone Drive to move all the info from my current Windows 7 drive and Windows 8 drive to the new partitions and have it be bootable?
I hope to start this project this afternoon so hopefully someone will read this soon :)
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Hi,
This looks as though it may be a solution to my problem. Scenario: New HP Envy Phoenix w/ 2TB HDD running Win8-64. Installed new Hitachi 128GB SSD. Tried to clone. Secure boot off. manual > proportional > restart required > freezes for eternity with no errors. Power cycle required to unfreeze. So, should I use the backup hdd and restore to ssd method?
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Backup and restore is always, always, always safer than clone, and gives you more control.
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