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copying boot partition on hard disk to SSD

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PaulSanderson
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I received a new machine from overclockers today and unfortunately they never included the SSD I ordered. I let them know an hour or so ago and they have not responded which means that I am not going to get one sent out for tomorrow.

Unfortunately I also need this set up and running soon and despite some cosmetic damage to the case I am minded to set a 180GB partition on the 1TB drive that did come with it - get everything installed and then clone the first 180GB of the hard drive to the SSD.

I may need to move the swap file back to tho hard disk once all is up and running - Can anyone see any other issues/problems with this approach?


   
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I received a new machine from overclockers today and unfortunately they never included the SSD I ordered. I let them know an hour or so ago and they have not responded which means that I am not going to get one sent out for tomorrow.

Unfortunately I also need this set up and running soon and despite some cosmetic damage to the case I am minded to set a 180GB partition on the 1TB drive that did come with it - get everything installed and then clone the first 180GB of the hard drive to the SSD.

I may need to move the swap file back to tho hard disk once all is up and running - Can anyone see any other issues/problems with this approach?

If my new SSD is anything to go by then BIOS/drivers may be an issue. Its working now, frighteningly fast, installed Win7 in minutes from an USB drive.

Now I think about it won't WPA have a fit when it notices its running from a different drive ?


   
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Passmark
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Should be OK.
I have done the move from a HDD to a SSD a few times now. Make sure the source HDD drive is smaller than the destination SSD. You can always extend the partition size later on to fill up the SSD. On the other hand it is much harder to shrink a partition.

Once or twice is need to go into the Windows repair function to get it working again after booting on the SSD, but it always worked in the end.


   
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KungFuAction
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EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition (free) has worked wonders for me when repartitioning. Using this tool along with Macrium Reflect Free, I was able to swap partitions and OSes around. Definitely ensure that you make only 1 partition of size 170 GB in size and use only that partition (you can increase the size of that partition on the SSD with Partition Master later).


   
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PaulSanderson
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Just for the record the clone operation was painless


   
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I've used Clonezilla with great sucess - including when the target drive is smaller than the source


   
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PaulSanderson
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Thanks - cloning the drive was never an issue (I probably shouldn't be here if I couldn't do that…


   
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