Question about mirroring an HD to a new SSD

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uluvbs

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Hi, all.

My HD is four years old now, and I'm about to buy a new SSD to replace it.

Here are my choices:

-1- Mirror the HD to the SSD, including the Windows XP OS, and copy everything over.
-2- Installing a new license of Windows 7 or 8 on the SSD and moving only certain folders and applications over from the HD.

My question is how do i do #2? For example, I have MS Office installed on my HD. Is there a way I can install the new license of Win7 or Win8 onto the SSD and then move just certain applications over from the HD? Or would I have to do a fresh install of these, too?

Thank you.
 
If you're going from XP you're going go have to bite the bullet and reinstall everything...or stick with XP...which I DO NOT recommend.
 
Fresh install of everything, programs included, and given you're on XP I'd recommend a full reinstall for the added benefits of not only WIndows 7 for SSD's, but for the sake of keeping it aligned. Today I just cloned my HDD to my SSD to test it out while waiting for my future parts and I went through nothing but hell trying to get the re-alignment back (failed as none of the methods worked for me) and ended up spending all day re-imaging a working copy.

It's an automatic 50% performance hit if you do image to an SSD, or at least in my case it was. Given it claims to do 540Mbps reads and 440Mbps writes I'm getting 220Mbps read and 130Mbps writes MAX. It's also SATA 2.0, but that shouldn't matter much as I assume your MOBO would be 2.0 as well. It is still absolute crap performance when it should be throttling my reads and nearly or absolutely maxing my writes if I did it the right way.

Trust me, it's worth the fresh install. Otherwise you might find yourself facing why you bought an SSD to begin with when programs and transfer rates are hardly faster than before.
 
My problem is I have no idea where my MS Office license is (it's a few years old), so looks like I'll have to buy that again. :(

OK, thanks for the advice.
 
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