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1TB Sata 3 Hard Drive to 128GB SSD?

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I currently have windows 7 64 ultimate installed and office 2007 which are both validated on a 1TB HDD.
I have created various backups at different times such as after validation of windows, then office, or before installing something with known install problems like roxio emc 2011 on a separate backup hard drive (E:) and would like to boot windows in future from the SSD and just use the 1TB Sata 3 drive (currently C:) as an install drive for all my other programmes etc. I don't want to clone the C: drive and all the software programmes currently installed as my new 128gb SSD isn't big enough.
Will I simply be able to boot from a restore cd and install the backup containing just the validated win7 64 and office 2007, and use that as my boot C: drive. Or, is there something obvious I'm missing? Thanks in advance for any help.

Jim

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You can restore all of windows and all of your programs to the SSD, leaving the user folders out of the backup. You can also uninstall some/all programs, restore the remaining windows and programs to the SSD, and reinstall the programs afterwards on your other disk.

You cannot separate the programs folders from the system partition through a partial restore. YOu will have to reinstall most if not all the programs because during installation a bunch of data is typically stored with full path in the registry.

Pat L

Thanks for your comment. I didn't really think to uninstall any programmes but I guess that's one way of shrinking the backup size.
What I've decided to do first is keep everything installed as is now and format the ssd with the win 7 install disc. I'm then going to try to re-install from the early win7 - office 2007 TI20111 backup which are both validated. I would install from scratch but this validation stuff doesn't always work when you re-install, then you have to start phoning for codes etc. I put the ssd into a hd caddy and win7 can see the drive but I can't do anything with it? All the options are greyed out.
I'll post back how I get on.

If you restore with the disk signature, you may just be fine with activation.