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It is with free and paid Macrium Reflect. A nice feature.
Drag and drop provided the image fits the new partition.
v5: How to restore a backup image (Restore, v5)
It is with free and paid Macrium Reflect. A nice feature.
Drag and drop provided the image fits the new partition.
v5: How to restore a backup image (Restore, v5)
@mjf,
We have already posted that all popular 3rd party imaging programs can do it. Done it myself numerous times. Only just now with the free version of Aomei backupper.
Hard to tell what the problem is for anne.
If the used space on the imaged drive is smaller than the target drive, then I don't know what the problem is there.
Shrink the partition on your hard drive to less than the size of the SSD.
Take another image and use that restore to your SSD.
1. There is no problem to restore a large partition to a smaller partition as long as the data fits.
2. I think Ann lost her bootmgr along the way (even if C says active). It would be helpful if we could see a picture of Disk Management of the old HDD.
3. Drag and drop is the usual way withing the Macrium restore window. It keeps the alignment. Problem here is that the C partition coming from the HDD is probably not properly aligned in the first place.
4. Here is what you have to do. Get your system on the HDD back up and running. Launch an elevated command prompt (run as admin) and run these commands:
Diskpart
List disk
Select disk n (where n is the number that was given for your SSD in List disk)
Clean
Create partition primary align=1024
Format fs=ntfs quick
Active
Exit
The restore the image to this partition.
5. There is no need to disconnect the HDD during the restore. That is only required if you make a brand new installation of the OS from an installation DVD.
IMPORTANT: If your bootmgr on the HDD is not on C, then we'll have to make other arrangements. But we can see that only after you posted a picture of Disk Management of the old (HDD) system.
Hello WHS,
Great advice! I wish I knew this a week ago! Then I wouldn't have lost so much time and energy trying to do this job. Indeed, I used an older image and it went perfect. Within 30 minutes I was ready with it. Now the computer is working fine but still I have 2 questions I hope somebody can give me the answers:
1. I am getting the following messages which I didn't get before:
Asus - Intel
P7P55 LX
Press Del to run Setup, Press TAB to display Bios Messages
This message is staying about 30 seconds then followed automatically by the following message:
Scan devices...
No any device exist!
followed by 3 Pieps
Then another message followed:
American Megatrend
CPU Fan Error
Press F1 to resume.
In this case I must press the F1 in order to go further.
The second question is:
How can I let Windows 7 save my Download and My Documents in another HD (not in the same SSD).
Many thanks to all of you for trying to help me solving this problem.
Best regards,
Anne
I am glad my little procedure helped. As to your questions:
Your first problem seems to be a hardware problem in the box. The CPU fan does not work properly. Maybe the inside is stuffed with lint. If this is a laptop, use a compressed air can (available at Home Depot) and blow thru the vents. If it is a desktop, open the box and give it a good cleanup - careful though and take all power off and after all power is disconnected press the start key for 30 seconds to get the static electricity out. It could also be that the CPU fan is not seated correctly. That you have to carefully investigate.
The second question is easy. Just make a folder on the HDD and store the documents there. Same for the downloads. The documents folder you can add to the library. Right click on the folder and INCLUDE it into the documents library. Give that folder a slightly different name to avoid confusion - e.g. 'Documents HDD' or whatever.
Last edited by whs; 01 Feb 2014 at 12:53.