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I am upgrading a 320gb Scorpio Blue to a 320gb Scorpio Black (returning a $63 Blue to Amazon and got the $68 Black, $5 difference seemed worth it).
Would the free version of Acronis that Western Digital offers be a good tool to use to clone the Blue to the Black drive?
Since you want AHCI mode on for an SSD, a fresh install.What do you guys use to clone Win7 from a hdd to an ssd?
Since you want AHCI mode on for an SSD, a fresh install.
Just use the built-in backup utility.
yes, AHCI is required for hot swapping SATA devices. Otherwise they are running in IDE/legacy mode which is not a hot swappable spec.Does AHCI allow for hot-swapping?
You need AHCI on to enable TRIM.
The reason the restore is failed is because you have a blank disk and are restoring data volumes to it. The disk was never set to contain a bootable volume so the disk is missing that data. If you go from one disk to another disk, if you don't do a straight clone, you have to have the partitions set up ahead of time so that it can be bootable from a data restore.
I think you're demonstrating for us exactly why you want to do a clean install when migrating, which is why I suggested it. It baffles me sometimes to wonder why having a fresh OS installation, with none of the junk you've accumulated over the years, is not worth it to some people, consider it only takes a few hours to get it all set back up. Windows 7 from a USB stick installing to an SSD only takes about 8 minutes. It will likely take more time trying to figure out a method that works to migrate, then fixing all the errors that come up along the way, than it would of taken doing it right from the begining.
It takes at least several days for me to get it to 100% prior state. The OS install itself, then all the drivers, then setting it all up and customizing (which I do alot of), then all the programs, then all of the settings for each of those programs, licenses, update settings, security rules...oh, and all the users and many times repeating the Windows and programs customizations for each of them... A few hours? Hardly.It baffles me sometimes to wonder why having a fresh OS installation, with none of the junk you've accumulated over the years, is not worth it to some people, consider it only takes a few hours to get it all set back up.
It takes at least several days for me to get it to 100% prior state. The OS install itself, then all the drivers, then setting it all up and customizing (which I do alot of), then all the programs, then all of the settings for each of those programs, licenses, update settings, security rules...oh, and all the users and many times repeating the Windows and programs customizations for each of them... A few hours? Hardly.
Yep. I've used that version as well as the paid version, but almost always use the backup-restore vs. the clone method, mostly because it gives me more control over partition sizes.Would the free version of Acronis that Western Digital offers be a good tool to use to clone the Blue to the Black drive?
And three, I wanted to avoid using my Product Key yet because I think the version I have only gets so many installs and this would the third time I've done it.
You don't need to do a fresh install of Windows to turn on AHCI mode... just enable the AHCI driver in Windows, boot into the BIOS, and then enable AHCI mode on your SATA controller. Windows will boot normally.Since you want AHCI mode on for an SSD, a fresh install.
I have an evga z68 FTW motherboard but I don't know which controller that is. When I turned AHCI on I would bsod.
A quick Google search would have told you how to enable the AHCI driver post-install in Windows 7, but here's the information anyway...How do I enable the driver in Windows?
Slow down cowboy, you're making assumptions. Just because Windows 7 didn't enable AHCI mode on your system doesn't mean it can't automatically enable AHCI mode during installation...And how do I install Windows to the ssd if there is no Windows in which to enable a driver?
I used Acronis 2012 and works pretty well.