SSD - Install and Transfer the Operating System

AOMEI Partition Assistant 5.1 Home Edition, which is free, has a "Migrate OS to SSD" feature that you might like to try. I haven't tried it myself, as I purchased the Paragon Migrate OS to SSD software, but if AOMEI works as well as Paragon, it makes it a breeze to transfer the OS from one drive to another and maintain the proper alignment for an SSD.

LittleJay said:

AOMEI Partition Assistant 5.1 Home Edition, which is free, has a "Migrate OS to SSD" feature that you might like to try. I haven't tried it myself, as I purchased the Paragon Migrate OS to SSD software, but if AOMEI works as well as Paragon, it makes it a breeze to transfer the OS from one drive to another and maintain the proper alignment for an SSD.

Thank you very much for the heads up on the program! It worked like a charm without even the need for the back up disks I would have had to bought to use Macrium since I don't have 40-50Gb of DVD-rw or flash drives laying around!

As for the tutorial, thank you everyone for your help, if I had everything the tutorial needs, it would have been a great experience, and I still learned a lot from it! Perhaps though, a note should be added that Macrium free, at this time, does not support USB external hard drives, only flash drives, SD cards and DVDs.

Gaine said:

Well, it would appear that the current version of Macrium is not compatible with usb external hardrives, only flash drives. Does anyone know if the other suggested programs would work with and external usb HDD?

Gaine:

Are you using this version from this link?

Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - Information and download

Gaine said:

LittleJay said:

AOMEI Partition Assistant 5.1 Home Edition, which is free, has a "Migrate OS to SSD" feature that you might like to try. I haven't tried it myself, as I purchased the Paragon Migrate OS to SSD software, but if AOMEI works as well as Paragon, it makes it a breeze to transfer the OS from one drive to another and maintain the proper alignment for an SSD.

Thank you very much for the heads up on the program! It worked like a charm without even the need for the back up disks I would have had to bought to use Macrium since I don't have 40-50Gb of DVD-rw or flash drives laying around!

You are welcome and I am glad to hear AOMEI works well.

whs said:

a note should be added that Macrium free, at this time, does not support USB external hard drives, only flash drives, SD cards and DVDs.

That is not so. It works perfectly well with external hard drives. Just made an image a few minutes ago. I am referring to Version 5.0.4995

I used their newest version, 5.0.5089, could that be the reason why?

Hi WHS. I followed your great tutorial and managed to get my SSD (OCZ Vertex 4 128GB) going. Unfortunately, if I try to open any microsoft office program i get the following error:


Any suggestions?

Thank you

Thank you.

I unplugged my HDDs and realized that my SSD is not working properly. I've started over. I will check back in later.