Cloning HDD to SDD help

conman33158 · 16 Mar 2012 at 19:27

Hey all,

I have an Asus eee pc 1015px with a 320gig HDD and the HDD has 2 partitions. It no longer has the recovery partition as I deleted it but when I installed Win 7 Enterprise I made a second partition and named it Backup Disk. So this is how it looks

C Drive 97GB - 12GB Used
Backup Disk - 200GB – 0GB Used

Now I ordered a 64GB SSD Drive and wanted to know if I can clone the OS using Acronis?

I know its 320GB Vs 64GB and know it's possible if there was no other partition when using NON SSD drives as I'm only using 12GB on the C drive but out of my depth as far as SSD and the other partition is concerned.

Or would I be safer deleting the Backup partition and then cloning the drive, I just cant be assed doing a fresh install and having to put all my programmes etc back on and if so can Acronis integrate the backup partition back to the OS partition?

Or lastly....just do a fresh install

conman33158 · 16 Mar 2012 at 20:54

Cheers Wassa,

was looking at Instructions on paragon migrate and looks as though I can just select the OS and copy it straight to the SSD, is this right?

If so that would do my job ok and then I can just set up a smaller partition later or maybe this software will let me do it at the same time.

conman33158 · 16 Mar 2012 at 20:55

digitaldreams said:
Had troubles twice doing same with Acronis.....it can also leave files on your HD that are incredibly difficult to remove.....Beware !

I'll maybe give Acronis a miss

conman33158 · 16 Mar 2012 at 21:01

I also see that paragon migrate automatically aligns partitions on the destination disk which is a pretty good feature. Hopefully my SSD will arrive soon and I'll give it a whirl.

Cheers for all your help guys

conman33158 · 16 Mar 2012 at 22:09

Cheers Stelly, will have a look at that one as well

conman33158 · 16 Mar 2012 at 22:32

There are too many backup, clone...etc software about and it's hard to get something that will actually work the way it’s advertised. I had used Acronis a while back and one time it failed badly but since the last 2 editions it has been pretty reliable for cloning and image backup although I would not be 100% confident if depending on it to not mess up somewhere along the line.

I was reading up on paragon migrate and they also have a programme paragon backup & recovery which seems like a good tool. I keep swaying towards paragon migrate as it looks to be very deicated to SSD drives and the automatic partition alignment is a bonus but as I say they all sound good when being advertised....lol.....I'm open to all suggestions…keep them coming

conman33158 · 24 Mar 2012 at 08:11

Just an update, Acronis didnt work, nor did Paragon migrate but Macrium Reflect done the job, although had to do a repair once finished using the original Windows 7 disc but repaired it in a few seconds. Thanks for all your guys, got there in the end