Back up and recovery of a dual boot computer

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XP and W7 are installed in separate partitions of the same physical hard drive. The hard drive has a third partition with data. I would like to create a backup of the operating systems and recover to an SSD. Please help me with this. The SSD has enough capacity to accommodate the operating systems. Is it possible to recover to larger capacity partitions on the SSD or do the SSD partitions have to be the same capacity as the hard drive?

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Backup the entire original drive (when you select what to backup, switch to disk mode and select the box next to the system disk).
Then restore the partitions you need, following these instructions.
As you are using XP, I assume your original disk is MBR, not GPT. INitialize your SSD accordingly.

Here are the instructions:

- Boot your computer on your current disk

- 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).

- In the menu of the Windows disk management, choose view, top, list disks. Verify your current disk is an MBR disk.

- 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 need to make sure that the spaced used on the partitions you are going to backup will be of a much lower total size than the available space on your SSD minus 10% (see below about the 10%)

- Do a full backup of your current disk. Include all partitions, even the hidden ones (no need to use the sector by sector setting). At restore time, we can leave some user-created content partitions out to fit the SSD if required. If space is a concern, you can exclude some file types (eg videos, pictures, movies, etc.).

- 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

- In the Acronis tools, choose add new disk. Initialize your disk as MBR if it was MBR.

- 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?). If your disk was GPT, this doesn't apply.

- Leave the drive letter change option alone

- Do not resize any partition except the user visible partitions

- Make sure that each partition has a size that is a whole number of MB (doesn't matter for the last partition)

- ideally for the last partition, you could leave about 10% of your SSD unallocated. This is optional to maintain SSD performance. Note that most users just use all the SSD space they can. No big deal if you do the same.

- No need to reboot in-between partition restores

- After the last partition, restore the MBR+track0 and the disk signature. This doesn't apply for GPT disks.

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 (not necessary for Win8)
- optionally, disable indexing on the disk (not a big deal)
- disable the superfetch service (Vista, Win7), and prefetch (XP). Not necessary for Win8
- leave the page file on the SSD
- verify that TRIM is activated if you have Win7 or Win8 http://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/14/verify-that-trim-is-enabled-in-windows…

Do, 04/17/2014 - 15:09
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