windows image

Darrenwp · 23 Nov 2011 at 19:45

my solid state drive died so i had to send it back. i have reinstalled everything again on a normal hardrive but when my harddrive gets replace with a new solid state drive is making a windows image with windows 7 going to save my installing windows and office again without clean installing and reactivate again
hope you understand what i mean thank you for your help :eek:

Buchanan0204 · 23 Nov 2011 at 19:51

You sent it back... so how can you install everything again. To what? If it's not been replaced yet?

Any chance you could be clearer? Do you have the replacement? Why would you need to reinstall? Are you using a temporary drive.

Plec · 23 Nov 2011 at 20:00

As above - could you clarify what the problem is - i think/guess you made an image of your faulty ssd before sending it off and want to reproduce the image onto a replacement?

Try listing the order of events so that it's easier to understand then friend Buchanan0204 can answer your problem comprehensively

ashrobbo · 23 Nov 2011 at 20:16

Yes aslong as you have a windows image created you can boot up the startup repair from the windows cd and restore the image.

Darrenwp · 23 Nov 2011 at 20:56

rewrote the above :confused:

Buchanan0204 · 24 Nov 2011 at 03:35

Plec said:
Try listing the order of events so that it's easier to understand then friend Buchanan0204 can answer your problem comprehensively

Friend lol. Indeed. I'm not always the best at following stories or understanding things (Well I think I'm great, others disagree). So glad it wasn't just me.

Buchanan0204 · 24 Nov 2011 at 03:38

To answer the question now. Yes it will be fine to do that. However. If it's Windows 7. Then this makes certain changes to the system when it thinks it's an SSD being used. It disables defragmenting automatically, so when you clone it over. You will need to do that manually yourself. I can't think of anything else at the moment, that's the main thing to do however.

Disable system restore etc, that saves space. Hibernation if you don't need/want it. Don't disable the page file. Regardless of what other people might thing. It's not the best idea in the world. You could always move it to a mechanical disk. Freeing space on the SSD. Again, pointless IMO.