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How to Rescue Windows 7 in the Event of SSD Failure
My O/S (Win7 x64) is on an SSD and after my brother had his SSD fail recently, I thought I would post about recovery options (assuming that it is a hardware failure)..
I make fairly regular backups of my C Drive as a system image (via the Windows 7 option) - and also the registry via ERDNT. My question is this: if I created a new, empty Primary Partition on one of my SATA drives, in the event that the SSD failed and Windows could not find the C Drive currently on the SSD, would Windows allow me to change the empty SATA partition's drive letter to 'C' and restore the system image there? Or can anyone see that in practice there would be 'issues' with that? I clearly don't want to test this out for real when the current C Drive is operating normally - this is just a precautionary measure of course.
Not sure either at this stage how to restore the system image to a different partition yet, but I guess the information is out there (probably in Win7 Help too) ...
Any comments on this? Thanks,
Martin