Clone Win 7 To New SSD Drive In Dual Boot System
I have a PC that has Win XP on one hard disk drive labeled E: and Win 7 on a different hard disk drive labeled C:. When I boot I can pick which OS to run XP or Win 7 in a screen that is the Microsoft Boot Manager. This was set up automatically when I installed Win 7 originally on the hard disk drive C:. During the Win 7 install, it detected XP on the other drive and created the dual boot environment with little input from me during the process.
I now want to clone the win 7 drive to a new SSD drive I just installed and formatted which is currently labeled G: I tried this once and the files appeared on the SSD drive, however I had trouble booting. So I decided to cut my losses and I reformatted the SSD and returned the system back to normal. It now dual boots as before and the SSD drive G: is empty but visible as the G: drive.
My question is what is the best way to accomplish the above? I can easily make the Win 7 clone to the SSD drive with Acronis Home 2011, but then what. At the end of the process, I want to retain the dual boot option but with Win 7 now on the ssd drive and presumably labeled C: The existing Win 7 hard drive will be used for file storage etc.
Thanks
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Hi Pat,
This worked and win7 boots OK and apps launch and run.
But I checked with AS SSD and it is not aligned. Any thoughts.
John
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When you restore to the SSD, you need to restore one partition at a time:
- first the system reserved, put a 1MB space before the partition; make sure that the size of that partition is a whole number of MB. If not sure, check with the Win7 DVD, using Diskpart.
- second restore the following partition; do not leave any space before. Make sure it is a whole number of MB.
- and so on,
- then restore the MBR+track0, and the disk signature.
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