Looking to replace my old 250 GB SATA 7200 rpm hard drive with a new 128 GB SSD

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I have a Dell Optiplex 960 small form factor computer with a 3.5 inch SATA 150 internal hard drive, and no physical room to connect a second internal drive. Win 7 Pro 32 bit OS. Everything working fine right now on the older drive. Maybe it's possible to connect two internal drives with the computer powered and opened? That should solve my install problems. Guessing I could use the clone disk feature. The computer design allows for either a single 3.5 inch drive or two 2.5 inch internal drives (I'm not sure if I have the cables for a second drive inside and not hooked up, but I could always buy them). I have an ATI 2013 full system image saved on an external USB drive. My problem is how to install the back-up image on the new drive, which may not be formatted, if it's the only drive in the computer? I don't have the Win 7 OS install DVD to use for formatting/partitioning, but I do have the Acronis 2013 install DVD/CD. Can I install the new drive and use the Acronis DVD/CD to install the back-up image? Also, I have this Windows 7 100MB system reserved boot whatever you call it on my current drive, and need that installed on the new drive also. My ATI full back-up does contain that 100 MB system reserved section. See screen capture disk manager attached, of what I have now.
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Link #2 illustrates the type of backup you need. You want a backup to include everything.

Link #3 provides guides on how to restore. If the new disk is the same size as old, you can use the item 2 within that guide.

If restoring to a larger or smaller new disk, then you can use the item #1.

Whether you use item 1 or 2. The restore should be done when booted from the TI REcovery CD and perform the "Add new disk" option found in the CD utilites/ tools menu. Choose the MBR as the partition method.

The old disk should be removed and new installed on same connectors before performing the restoring of your fresh backup.

Addendum:
If your disk backup is the suggested "disk mode" backup, you can also use the link3, item 2 illustration--even if restoring to a larger disk as your particular disk confguration will restore properly to a larger disk as well. The summary page or last screen shows what is goiing to happen when you do a disk option restore.

When performing the "add new disk" procedure, the object is to initialize the disk via the MBR option. There is no need to create partitions via this procedure. You can leave the disk as all "un-allocated" space

Thu, 08/15/2013 - 13:21
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Thanks for your reply. My SSD comes in a few days and then I'll see what happens.
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Mon, 08/19/2013 - 21:58
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Another post-Win 7 Pro 32 bit:
Build 6514, on the computer and on a CD. I also have the build 6528 Recovery Only software on a CD, that I can use for a start-up from the CD. I'm still a bit confused, but I don't have the Kingston Hyper X 128 GB SSD yet, and when giving things a try I think I'll figure it out. I do have full system back-ups as recommended (thank you) on two different external hard drives. My current HDD is 250 GB and my software takes up about 22 GB of that, with another 100 MB for the system reserved partition. The complications are because of the 100 MB Win 7 system reserved partition. As best I can gather, the best way to do things is to use the clone feature after booting the OS, if I can get both drives powered up and running. I have a small form factor machine, and have to leave it opened and powered, with cables I have, to do that. Plan B is to start up from the recovery CD with the SSD in place as the only drive. I really didn't follow those links in the replies. Attached is the help section from Acronis build 6514 on how to do it from the CD recovery mode, if you have the 100 MB system reserved partition. It looks very complicated. Hopefully I will be able to avoid doing that.

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Mon, 08/19/2013 - 22:28
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Build 6514.
It worked!!!!!!!!!!! I was able to connect both drives and use the clone feature. Extremely simple. Didn't have to bother with plan B, as discussed previously.

Follow-up as I wrote too soon. The plot thickens, but no fault of Acronis software. It's Microsoft this time and its complexity. From what I've read, for optimum performance with an SSD, a computer should be in the AHCI mode that's beneficial to SATA operation, and for some reason, especially for SATA SSDs. Probably good for HDDs also. Mine turned out to be in the IDE mode. Not sure why as the old drive is a SATA drive. There is a how to switch after OS install method by making alterations in the registry, but it left some questions for me, as both seem enabled. Anyone know anything about that? There are also some posts on Tom's Hardware as a lot of this is a common question. Anyway, waiting to hear from Kingston tech support. Oh well, I think James Cameron is right. In the on-going battle between people and machines, the machines will most likely win!!!

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Mon, 08/26/2013 - 02:39