IDE Hard drive to smaller SSD
My daughter and I have different computers but we both had 1 Terabyte old fashion hard drives. we are upgrading to 240 GB SSD and keeping the terabyte drive for storage of music and other data.
I did my computer first. My terabyte had no system reserve. Formatted SSD, set as primary active. I did a backup of old hardrive in Acronis 2013. Reboot and started from boot up disk. Restore onto the SSD. Took many hours to do this, but now SSD seems to work fine. Improved the speed of the computer. Good upgrade.
Now I do my daughter's. Her terabyte has a system reserve of 100 megabytes. Formatted SSD, set as primary active. After format, it says it is healthy. I first did a backup of old drive in Acronis 2013. Reboot and started from boot up disk.
When I get to part that says to set partition settings I have problem. I do partition 1-1, which I guess is the system reserve. I can select to store on c drive. I mark it as primary active. Change size to 100 MB. Hit proceed.
It goes to partition c:. I cannot select to store on c drive - it is grayed out. Only the backup drive can be selected. I tried many things. I did not try not saving system reserve though.
I see you can upgrade to 2014 if you have windows 8.1. I do that. Backup. New bootup disk. Same problem.
Suggestions?????


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Thanks for assistance
The system reserve restores fine.
There is a 931.07 GB partition on the old drive. It only has 125 gb on it. I am trying to restore on to a 240 GB SSD drive. when i go to restore the 931.07 partition and I click on location, the SSD drive is grayed out.
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Start with the SSD completely blanked out. No partition on it. To do this, choose add new disk from the recovery CD, and decline to create a partition.
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I tried it. First I tried to restore just the system reserved. Seemed to work fine. I had to limit the size to 100 mb. Then tried to restore the 931 gb section. Again the location to restore it was grayed.
Went back and retried what you suggested again. Tried to restore the whole drive. Again it first tried to set up a system restore partition that worked fine. when it tried to set up drive c, the location was grayed.
rebooted computer using old drive. downloaded program to check ssd health. Said it was in good health.
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