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Booting a cloned SSD with dual-Boot Win7-32 & Win7-64?

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Hi

I am using Acronis True Image Home many years (now Version 2010) mostly for for backup entire hard drives.

Up to now I used a Western Digital 10.000 rpm for system drive with a dualboot Windows 7 32 bit and Windows 7 64 bit. I got now a new Intel 510 120 GB SSD drive, this I want to use as my new system drive.

What I did up to now:
1. Installed the new Intel 501 SSD, working fine.
2. With Acronis TIH 2010 I cloned the actual sytemdrive to the new SSD; clonig fine and terminated successfully! Switched off the system and disconnected the cloned SSD.
3. Booting from the "old" sytem drive works fine but what I have to do now, please help?

Can I just disconnect the "old" drive, connect the new SSD-drive and boot from this SSD modifying the BIOS boot drive sequence? Did the cloning also transfer the dual-boot menu? I did not try it up to now; I wanted to ask first!

Thanks for the answers.
Peter

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Peter,

You can try. It is preferable to:
- clone from the CD,
- put the source disk out of the computer in an external enclosure,
- put the new disk at the place of the source,
- clone manually in your case so that you can control the size of the clones partitions and not resize the system partition partition.

Peter Koller wrote:

Hi

I am using Acronis True Image Home many years (now Version 2010) mostly for for backup entire hard drives.

Up to now I used a Western Digital 10.000 rpm for system drive with a dualboot Windows 7 32 bit and Windows 7 64 bit. I got now a new Intel 510 120 GB SSD drive, this I want to use as my new system drive.

What I did up to now:
1. Installed the new Intel 501 SSD, working fine.
2. With Acronis TIH 2010 I cloned the actual sytemdrive to the new SSD; clonig fine and terminated successfully! Switched off the system and disconnected the cloned SSD.
3. Booting from the "old" sytem drive works fine but what I have to do now, please help?

Can I just disconnect the "old" drive, connect the new SSD-drive and boot from this SSD modifying the BIOS boot drive sequence? Did the cloning also transfer the dual-boot menu? I did not try it up to now; I wanted to ask first!

Thanks for the answers.
Peter

Hi all
Yes, the cloning did transfer the dualboot menu too; I booted from the new cloned Intel SSD 510 and everything is fine, it works great, no problem at all!!
It is much more faster to boot Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) and also the startup of the programms IE9 / all Office 2010 products. And no more noise from the disk read/write heads mooving around.
Acronis Team: Thanks for your product!
Peter

Hi Peter, did you check your alignment? msinfo32. All your offsets should be dividable by 1024. :)

The offset should be divisible by 4096 when expressed in bytes. A typical way to achieve this is to create an offset of 1024kB (1MB)