Best way to move windows 7 onto SSD?

oulton · 28 Feb 2011 at 15:03

Hi All,

Just got myself an ocz vertex 2 120gb and I want to move my os and currently installed programs, game saves etc onto it. Is there a quick and easy way to do this? I would like to avoid reinstalling everything, I had to do all that just last week!

Thanks for any help!

Oulton

SiriusB · 28 Feb 2011 at 15:42

Clone the OS drive using something like Acronis True Image and then restore it to the SSD.

There used to be a bit of a hoo haa over SSD alignment, but Acronis - and I assume other similar tools - do all the alignment themselves so no extra steps are needed.

Casdawer · 28 Feb 2011 at 15:43

You can try and take an image of your HDD and then deploying it to your new drive, though i do suggest that you do a fresh install.

monkeyspank · 28 Feb 2011 at 15:54

there are a few things you'll need to change manually if you do clone over... such as disabling indexing and defrag etc

New install best and won't take long on your new drive

Deleted member 77746 · 28 Feb 2011 at 16:03

Would be worth a clean install alone.

Paul11 · 28 Feb 2011 at 16:07

iDroid84 said:
Would be worth a clean install alone.

i agree

nice and fresh clean install ....

SiriusB · 28 Feb 2011 at 16:08

With SP1 out, a clean install [with it slipstreamed] would save you a lot of time on updates.

Deleted member 77746 · 28 Feb 2011 at 16:15

SiriusB said:
With SP1 out, a clean install [with it slipstreamed] would save you a lot of time on updates.

i agree

nice and fresh clean SP1 install ....

oulton · 28 Feb 2011 at 18:26

Cheers everyone! Clean install it is then

SiriusB · 28 Feb 2011 at 20:16

If you slip-stream SP1, and then use the resulting iso with the Windows 7 USB tool to create a bootable install USB drive, your install will be super-fast.