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Clone disk -- will this work?

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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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Don't use clone drive:
- do a disk and partition backup of each partition you want to put on the new SSD,
- boot on the recovery CD,
- restore the partitions one by one, resize them as needed,
- leave a 1MB offset before the first partition, choose a size for each partition that is a whole number of MB (1024bytes), to get the SSD aligned,
- you may need to use your Windows installation DVD, and bootrec to fix the boot records and/or to enable dual boot on that SSD. Bootrec /fixMBR, Bootrec /fixBoot, Bootrec /ScanOS to verify it can see both Windows, Bootrec /RebuildBDC,

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?

Backup and restore is always, always, always safer than clone, and gives you more control.