ssd to sata

Beans on toast Dave · 31 Jul 2011 at 15:14

currently have w7 on my ssd drive

looking to image the drive to my old sata 3.5" drive

can this be done easily? as the ssd has the 2 partitions installed as standard with a ssd

thanks

robinbredin · 31 Jul 2011 at 15:18

challengedavid
ssd to sata
currently have w7 on my ssd drive

looking to image the drive to my old sata 3.5" drive

can this be done easily? as the ssd has the 2 partitions installed as standard with a ssd

thanks

Why don't you clone the drive using Acronis.

See HERE it works for Seagate as well.

Beans on toast Dave · 31 Jul 2011 at 15:19

hi,

have acronis, will this do it then? as i thought with the 2 partitions on the ssd i might have trouble imaging the drive

robinbredin · 31 Jul 2011 at 15:22

challengedavid
hi, have acronis, will this do it then? as i thought with the 2 partitions on the ssd i might have trouble imaging the drive

It will clone the whole drive, ie, bring the 2 partitions over to your new drive.

Beans on toast Dave · 31 Jul 2011 at 15:24

thanks, have used it before being a ssd i thought it might be different

Beans on toast Dave · 31 Jul 2011 at 19:54

so tried and failed, the ssd has a different structure, it has the main partition and system reserved does that make any difference?

Philtor · 1 Aug 2011 at 00:24

Why not try using the backup and restore centre in Windows 7 to create a system image?

Beans on toast Dave · 1 Aug 2011 at 07:05

tried that, it defaults back to the ssd drive and i want the image onto the old 3.5"

Philtor · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:40

So what your saying is you can't take an image of a SSD and clone it to a HDD? I've never tried it myself.

robinbredin · 1 Aug 2011 at 10:11

So what your saying is you can't take an image of a SSD and clone it to a HDD? I've never tried it myself.

Never heard of that, would have though that acronis would have worked. :eek:

Beans on toast Dave · 1 Aug 2011 at 16:44

i think it got something to do with the extra partition that w7ssd creates when installing, I eventually used an old image of the non sad drive, and updated that

Philtor · 1 Aug 2011 at 16:52

This would concern me as I take regular images of my SSD in case something should ever go wrong with it, so this means I would be unable to restore the image to a normal HDD should it ever fail. Must be some way around this :confused:

Philtor · 4 Aug 2011 at 22:30

*bump* Someone must have come up against this before?

Philtor · 12 Aug 2011 at 10:10

*another bump* Im certain this is going to come up again on these forums.

P3N9U1N · 12 Aug 2011 at 10:14

I want to do the exact opposite, win 7 from my sata 2 hdd to my new sata 3 ssd. Possible?

Philtor · 12 Aug 2011 at 10:16

P3N9U1N said:
I want to do the exact opposite, win 7 from my sata 2 hdd to my new sata 3 ssd. Possible?

Yeah that's easy enough to do although most peeps will advise a clean install is the best way. Have a look at Paragon Migrate OS to SSD which is excellent and handles the partition alignment for you too.

P3N9U1N · 12 Aug 2011 at 10:19

That looks simple enough,I have a lot of games installed on my D drive that i'll have to repair if I do a clean install so thats not really an option

Beans on toast Dave · 7 Sep 2011 at 20:33

still looking for an answer to this, tried again to acronis my ssd image to my old 3.5"sata

its a no go, boot manger missing,
whats the best way to image a ssd to sata drive

platypus · 8 Sep 2011 at 11:55

Have you tried testdisk? Not sure its entirely what its intended for but its a pretty powerful utility.

Subliminal Aura · 9 Sep 2011 at 10:50

challengedavid said:
still looking for an answer to this, tried again to acronis my ssd image to my old 3.5"sata

its a no go, boot manger missing,
whats the best way to image a ssd to sata drive

Is it an AHCI / IDE mix up issue ? Didn't you try to repair boot using the windows install disk ?