OK so I've just fitted a new 250gb SSD and a 1Tb HDD to my computer with the intention of replacing my old existing 1Tb HDD which is showing signs of failing sectors, with the new and faster SSD and new HDD for storage.
The new drives are both fully working, formatted and recognised by the computer.
The existing HDD which is still in use, has one partition (named drive C) for OS, programs etc and the remaining disk (named drive D) is used for storage of photos etc.
The OS partition is only 127Gb of which 110 Gb is used so the new SSD has plenty of headroom. The OS is Windows 7 Home Edition.
I'm trying to do a clone of the operating system partition to the new SSD rather than a full re-install with the aid of the free software 'MACRIUM' and have tried numerous times but each time it ends up with 'Clone failed error 8' after a few minutes.
Macrium recognises the new drives too so that is not the issue.
I also have no issues with transferring files from the existing HDD to the new drives so they all communicate fine.
I'm sure others must have needed to clone a drive at some time or other and used this software to do the same task so the question is: is there something I'm overlooking?
The other question is: If I can't get the partition cloned successfully which looks unlikely at the moment, would I just be better off re-installing Windows 7, Office, Adobe Photoshop and the other progs I've installed on the original drive to the SSD and once everything is completed, go into the bios and reset the boot order so that I boot from the SSD which would seem the logical thing to do?
The issue with re-installing everything rather than cloning it is that I'd have to dig the disks out of my loft ( if they are still there or I can even find them as we had a big clear out a couple of years ago) and it's 7 years since I last did an install of those programs, hence my preference to clone rather than re- install.
Any help or advice to get around this issue would be very much appreciated.
The new drives are both fully working, formatted and recognised by the computer.
The existing HDD which is still in use, has one partition (named drive C) for OS, programs etc and the remaining disk (named drive D) is used for storage of photos etc.
The OS partition is only 127Gb of which 110 Gb is used so the new SSD has plenty of headroom. The OS is Windows 7 Home Edition.
I'm trying to do a clone of the operating system partition to the new SSD rather than a full re-install with the aid of the free software 'MACRIUM' and have tried numerous times but each time it ends up with 'Clone failed error 8' after a few minutes.
Macrium recognises the new drives too so that is not the issue.
I also have no issues with transferring files from the existing HDD to the new drives so they all communicate fine.
I'm sure others must have needed to clone a drive at some time or other and used this software to do the same task so the question is: is there something I'm overlooking?
The other question is: If I can't get the partition cloned successfully which looks unlikely at the moment, would I just be better off re-installing Windows 7, Office, Adobe Photoshop and the other progs I've installed on the original drive to the SSD and once everything is completed, go into the bios and reset the boot order so that I boot from the SSD which would seem the logical thing to do?
The issue with re-installing everything rather than cloning it is that I'd have to dig the disks out of my loft ( if they are still there or I can even find them as we had a big clear out a couple of years ago) and it's 7 years since I last did an install of those programs, hence my preference to clone rather than re- install.
Any help or advice to get around this issue would be very much appreciated.