SSD Questions

MrRoper

MrRoper

MrRoper

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Hi Everyone,

thinking of buying an SSD for sh*ts and giggles and was looking for some advice on migrating my current install

I currently have two 500gb drives in raid 0 with windows 7 64bit installed

Question 1

Can i move this install to the new SSD drive? if so how and with what

Question 2

Can I move the program files locations so that they stay on the normal HDD


Ideally i only want the operating system and user profiles etc on the SSD and *some* games and applications, the others will live on the HDD`s

Thanks in advance
 
MrRoper said:
Hi Everyone,

thinking of buying an SSD for sh*ts and giggles and was looking for some advice on migrating my current install

I currently have two 500gb drives in raid 0 with windows 7 64bit installed

Question 1

Can i move this install to the new SSD drive? if so how and with what

Question 2

Can I move the program files locations so that they stay on the normal HDD


Ideally i only want the operating system and user profiles etc on the SSD and *some* games and applications, the others will live on the HDD`s

Thanks in advance
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Answer 1
Yes it can be done, something like acronis Trueimage 2010 will do the job (Norton Ghost if it's still around will also work).

Answer 2
This too can be done, but you need something that will scan the registry and modify the related entries. I am not too familiar with this, in the really old days Norton had a product that could do this too.
 
ih8modem said:
Answer 1
Yes it can be done, something like acronis Trueimage 2010 will do the job (Norton Ghost if it's still around will also work).

Answer 2
This too can be done, but you need something that will scan the registry and modify the related entries. I am not too familiar with this, in the really old days Norton had a product that could do this too.
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What you can try is moving the programs you can't fit on the SSD to another location (make sure you have as many of your commonly used progs on the SSD as you can fit, no point having one if you don't take full advantage of it) then clone the drive over and boot from it.
You can then make blank folders on the SSD in the same place the old programs used to be and use Symlinks to redirect file access to the real program location on your other drive.

It's a very simple command,
Code: 
mklink /J C:\program files\AppX D:\app backups\AppX
 
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