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HD to SSD difficult?

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c2rex

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What is necessary to replace an existing hard drive with an SSD, so that everything including the operating system get transferred to the SSD? Is there a link or tutorial to explain this, or am I making it more difficult than it really is?
 
first off your ssd disk needs to be big enough to hold your hard drive. if not you will have issues. Win7 has two partitions, a 100 MB boot partition and the regular partition. The boot partition has to be copied first and then the regular partition. Norton ghost can copy partitions like that.

Really you should look to the following: Turn ACPI mode on in the bios, clean install windows, copy over what you need. Harder way, enable ACPI, copy the partitions over, boot and hope it works.
 
Shrink your existing partition so it fits on you new SSD - and then use Macrium Reflect to transfer to the SSD
 
Yea, i think it all comes down to the size of your original windows parition(s) and if the SSD is large enough to fit them.

If it is then you can simply clone the partitions over using cloning software. You can use a live boot CD like: http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php
With that you would just have both drives installed and copy one over to the other, then boot from the SSD.

SSD's are just disks like any other disk.
 
+1 Macrium reflect - this tool is free and can copy over just used space which is a huge benefit over other similar tools that want to image the whole disk.

Also you can image a disk in use which is super handy - although I recommend doing the image of the disk with another computer over usb 3.0/ esata etc.

You can also use Macrium Reflect for disk to disk copy - which gets it all done in one go.
 
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