Restoring Win 7 image on IDE HDD to SSD
Hi,
i have Win 7 installed into a 150GB partition on a 500GB capacity IDE HDD. I am about to purchase a new computer with a 120GB SSD with the intention of imaging my 150GB partition and restoring to the 120GB SSD (as the 150GB partition is < 120GB used).
However "Acronis True Image Home 2012 Help" talks about limitations of/ and risks of restoring a partition rather than a whole disk. As i only want to restore the "C" partiton of my system disk i am concerned that my system will not boot on the new hardware after restoring.
Can you please advise if it is ok to save/restore partitions rather than the entire source disk?
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StroppOnTop,
You might have to restore more than the C:\ partition, depending on your PC:
- Many Win7 PC have a system reserved partition,
- Some Win7 PC have other partitions necessary for boot.
Follow the instructions here. This will make sure your computer can boot and that the new disk alignment is created/preserved.
- Use Windows disk management to verify that the active partition is on the system disk (right click on the computer icon on your desktop, choose manage, storage, disk management)
- Print a screen shot of the disk management console for future reference,
- Uninstall any program you don't want on the SSD (eg: games, ). You can leave content and move it later out of the SSD.
- Do a full backup of your current disk (before changing the partition size). Include all hidden partitions and teh C:\: eg System Reserved, Diagnostics, Recovery, etc.
- No need to use the sector by sector setting
- Put your SSD at the same spot at your current disk. Remove your current disk from the computer for the time being.
- Boot your computer on the Acronis recovery CD
- Restore each partition at a time in the same order they were laid out (use your screen shot). This will allow to control resizing and offset to align the disk
- Leave a 1MB space before the first partition (maybe system reserved?)
- Mark the correct partition active (maybe system reserved?)
- Leave the drive letter change option alone
- Do not resize any partition except the C:\system partition or any partition you created and want on the SSD
- Make sure that each partition has a size that is a whole number of MB (doesn't matter for the last partition)
- No need to reboot inbetween partition restores
- After the last partition, restore the MBR+track0 and the disk signature
That's it.
Reboot on your new SSD. Then, if you want to use your old disk, put it back in the computer, reboot. Delete whatever you want, etc.
You have some tweaks to optimize your SSD:
- disable automatic defragmentation of that disk,
- disable superfetch service, leave prefetch
- leave the page file on the SSD
- verify that TRIM is activated http://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/14/verify-that-trim-is-enabled-in-windows…
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