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Quick Restore Question

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I currently have a 300 GB HDD installed in my laptop. It contains three partitions. HP Support partition, recovery and C. I am looking into purchasing a 256 GB SSD. Can I restore just the HP Support partition, recovery and MBR and do a system recovery for fresh install? I can probably clone the entire HDD down to the SSD size...but wanted so see if I could recover two out of three partitions and MBR and just do a clean install...

Thoughts?

Thanks

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Bob,

Cloning in Acronis speak has a defined meaning, it is a complete disk copy. To achieve what you want to do you need to make either a per partition image or the complete disk (which is th eoption I'd go for) and then just restore the partition that you need.

Bob,

- Backup all the partitions,
- Print a screen shot of the Windows disk management console. To find it, right click on the computer icon on your desktop, choose manage, storage, disk management.
- Shutdown the computer, and put the new disk at its final spot. Remove the old disk completely for the time being,.
- Boot your computer on the recovery CD,
- Restore one partition at a time, in the same order they were laid out on the previous disk.
- Make sure there is 1 MB space before the first partition,
- Resize the C:\system partition or any user partition to take advantage of your bigger size disk.
- You don't need to reboot between restores.
- Don't attempt to change disk letters. The recovery CD will show you drive/partition letters different from Windows. Do not correct this.
- Make sure you mark the right partition active as you restore (use again your printout to ascertain which on was active).
- FInally restore the MBR+Track0 and select to restore the disk signature,
- Reboot.

Thank you for the replies...makes good sense. The SSD is going to be smaller than the HDD it will replace. However, I can keep three out of the four partitions the same size and just resize the C partition...

Thanks again