Cloning Windows 7 to SSD help

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Hi, I have a HDD with 2 partitions on it : Windows XP and Windows 7. As I installed Windows 7 on the same drive without realising I could then not format the XP partition, every time I boot up my PC I have to choose which OS to run.

On to my problem. I've bought a 120GB SSD and I wanted to clone the Windows 7 OS only. Sizewise it's fine but I was worried that if I cloned the entire disk (Arconis doesn't allow partitions to be copied individually) that I'd still have the same issue with dual booting. I found that Arconis was able to wipe the XP portion of the HDD so I ran that function.

Now I am getting a 'NTDLR is missing' error message on boot up which is related to XP (I think). If I choose to boot up by CD/DVD then Windows 7 launches and asks me to repair or install. I have tried repairing 4 times and nothing is happening.

Question : what do I do? Do I just install Windows 7 fresh on the SSD? Will it still 'link' to my games folders on a separate HDD drive or do I lose all of this? Can I clone my existing Windows 7 over, ignoring and removing XP? Any advice welcome.
 
Use clonezilla you can get guides on youtube, it is actually very simple to use if you look past the "linux look" of it. Download tuxboot and copy clonezilla to a usb stick in two easy steps. I think you can do a drive to drive clone but as you want to do a partition may be easier to use a usb hard drive to backup the partition and then restore.

Go to the option to make a back up of a partition and then save it to the usb hard drive.

Put the ssd in and then go to restore partition to disk. Then restore the partition from the usb hard drive to the ssd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzxL95GmmYk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfFpdRlDBNg

You may have to put in a windows 7 disk and then go to recovery console and do a fix boot operating system or use the bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot from recovery console.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_BN5PPald8
 
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