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clone\copy my ssd over

fightingfi

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so my old ssd is to small and im running out of room for win updates and whatever.....bought a new larger 120 ssd to make my new C drive. Copied contents over from what i can tell with roadkil raw copier its free and never had issues before. Formatted the drive ( its win 7 64 bit) and it selected the drive letter as D: my original drive is C:

So when i plug and select my new 120 ssd to boot from and save changes\settings in the bios it tells me to reboot and select drive?

what am i doing wrong? it also seems to freeze up when in bios and have to hard reset my pc but it does say the 120 ssd is selected as my boot drive?

are there any FREE and Excellent ghost or image software out there thats better or anyone know of?

Tankies in Advanced :D
 
Ease US todo backup 3.5 (might be newer versions but I haven't tried them).

I have used this to clone discs a ton and it works very well. It also works on a live drive in windows without issue as well and is quite quick. I have transferred from platter drive to platter drive, from platter to ssd and from SSD to SSD without issue. I usually run a chkdsk /r /f on the new drive after cloning just to be safe but have never had an issue. Bear in mind I have only used this with Win 7 64, I can't attest to anything else.

It being free certainly doesn't hurt its case either.
 
are there any FREE and Excellent ghost or image software out there thats better or anyone know of?

Tankies in Advanced :D
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Try MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition and make a boot CD. I used it twice and worked great without any hassles with drive letters.

I don't recall ever trying to clone within Windows and selecting a boot drive so I can't help you there.
 
Im sorry my question IS this.......Do i need to change my new D; drive to C: to make it bootable? if so how plz
 
Do i need to change my new D; drive to C: to make it bootable? if so how plz
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No. Any clone utility will not care what drive letter the drive was or even if it was formatted. Anything on the SSD should have been overwritten by the clone process. You do not copy files in a clone you copy the whole partition or disk along with the boot records...
 
In addition to the great Clonezilla mentioned above, a list of more choices of totally free, good cloning/imaging software here: Best Free Drive Imaging Programs.

I have that Roadkill program (he makes some great stuff), but it likely didn't copy the boot records of your old drive C over properly, causing your issues. I personally prefer using ddrescue (Linux) for cloning, but the programs above are far less fussy.
 
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