Moving Win7 to new SSD - How?

TobyH · 20 May 2013 at 20:59

I've just bought a new Crucial M4 256gb SSD as my old 60gb OCZ is starting to play silly buggers.

I need to move everything from the old one to the new one. Is there a simple way of doing this other than re-installing everything?

Dano · 20 May 2013 at 21:03

Macrium reflect.

TobyH · 20 May 2013 at 21:11

Short and to the point! cheers!

Minstadave · 20 May 2013 at 21:59

Did the m4 not come with transfer software? Most ssds do.

UKDTweak · 20 May 2013 at 22:00

Or you can use windows backup!

TobyH · 21 May 2013 at 10:40

Don't know about the transfer software, will have a proper look when I get home.

Will look into windows back up too. Can you tell me where to find it? presumably control panel?

TobyH · 21 May 2013 at 10:42

Just had a quick look on my works laptop, 'create a system image' I'm assuming is what I need to do?

troops · 21 May 2013 at 11:34

I would save the aggro and just reinstall.

TobyH · 22 May 2013 at 10:32

Thanks for the advice, I managed to clone the original SSD onto the new one, but it partitioned the new SSD, so I used MS Disk Management and opened the rest of the new SSD so it has the operating system files (about 100mb) partitioned (as the old SSD) and all the programs etc on another partition along with about 180gb of spare space.

Disconnected the old SSD and it ran perfectly. Formated the old SSD for future use.

And all this was done on a brand new gigabyte ga-z77-d3h mobo with a new i5 3330 cpu and 8gb ram. It now takes about 2 sec to get to windows and probably about 8 sec to open windows. Can't believe the difference its made having a modern mobo with suitable bits!

Third Opinion · 23 May 2013 at 22:21

Dano said:
Macrium reflect.

Looks good I am going to try this one. Thanks for the heads up.

Blackjack Davy · 25 May 2013 at 21:04

Plenty of other backup software, I use Acronis myself. Create image, restore to new drive.

If you're up for a challenge you could try CloneZilla...

covenantuk · 26 May 2013 at 09:37

Nothing challenging about Clonezilla at all - I just used it to change my Win7 SSD from 128Gb to 250GB SSD.

Download, burn to CD, boot from CD, copy SSD. Very painless.

kyle1970 · 27 May 2013 at 12:10

troops said:
I would save the aggro and just reinstall.

As troops said,takes no time on a ssd