Backing up OS from HDD to smaller SSD

aruwin said:

Kaktussoft said:

Oh my God, that's exactly what is happening now!! Why can't I startup my windows? Should I image the old HDD again with the system reserve to fix this? And by the way, the OS is now not C drive but D!!!!

When is it called D? You mean in recovery environment? A drive letter is just a drive letter and defined in registry of current running OS... probably the recovery environment now. Not a problem at all!




The problem is... all boot entries are still pointing to old HDD! Easiest thing to do:

• Boot into recovery environment->command prompt

Code:

C:
CD \boot
attrib -h  -s  bcd
ren  bcd  bcdold

Now old bootmenu is gone (renamed). Now do a startup repair 3 times, with reboots in between.
C is system reseerved now btw. But if repaired and booted in win7... C is OS partition

I just did a reboot once with the Windows CD in and then everything went back to normal, as if I hadn't changed my hard drives. Shouldn't this be ok already?

Did you rename/delete bcd and recreate it from scratch? It looks fine now.

In Elevated Command Prompt
do

Code:

bcdedit/enum  all>bcd.txt

Now post bcd.txt
then I can see if "memory diagnostics", "recovery environment" and so in is in bcd menu.
Delete bcd.txt afertwards

Hibernation File – most of us do not use Hibernation, but Sleep instead. But, the hiberfile takes precious space on your SSD – to the same tune as the size as your RAM. To get rid of it, run the following command in elevated Command Prompt: powercfg –h off. If you ever want it back, it is powercfg – h on.

Follow this as well Disk Defragmenter - Open and Use
Press "Configure schedule"->"select disks". Don't put checkmark at C drive! Defrag an SSD is useless and shortens the SSD lifespan.

Turn system restore on (most likely already is) System Restore - Enable or Disable
and look if there are any ghost drives there. Disable (so configure->turn off) for ghost disks (if any). Turn it on for C


Be sure TRIM is on TRIM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify

DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (Windows TRIM commands are disabled)
DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled)

Is its value 0 so enabled? If not enable it
fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0

SSD is most likely not in the defrag schedule list becuase it's an SDD, so defragment is useless! Is it in the main defragment window? I don't have an SSD so can't test it.

As seen on the disk management screen C drive starts ats point 100MB+14.59GB so at point 14.69GB. I think you did restore to same spot as on old HDD (most likely there was a 14GB recovery partition in front). You should have used macrium reflect rescue winpe version (not linux) and move the new partition to the right spot and make it larger. Later post will solve that.

Post output of

Code:

bcdedit/enum  all

so add /enum all so I can see more.

Do you wanna get rid of "system reserved"? So merge it with C?

In win7 disk managment partitions can only be extended to the right side (not to the left).
Install partition wizard HOME it's free. Free download Magic Partition Manager Software, partition magic alternative, free partition magic, partition magic Windows 7 and server partition software - Partition Wizard Online
Then run it and resize C How to resize Partition for Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 or Windows XP/7/Vista with partition magic manager software? Move/Resize Partition Help. (don't apply yet)
Then align all partitions on SSD Align All Partitions ? MiniTool Partition Wizard help.
Now press APPLY
Why alignment?? It is described here SSD Alignment

The new start sector of C triggers partition wizard to modify the bootmenu and registry so it will succesfully boot afterwards.




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about the disk management issue not showing SSD: Click on "Disk Defragmenter". Click on "Configure Schedule" and hit "Select Disks". If all went well, Windows will realize it's on an SSD and your SSD won't even be an option in this menu. Now Windows will avoid defragmenting your SSD, which can be bad for it.

aruwin said:

Kaktussoft said:

In win7 disk managment partitions can only be extended to the right side (not to the left).
Install partition wizard HOME it's free. Free download Magic Partition Manager Software, partition magic alternative, free partition magic, partition magic Windows 7 and server partition software - Partition Wizard Online
Then run it and resize C How to resize Partition for Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 or Windows XP/7/Vista with partition magic manager software? Move/Resize Partition Help. (don't apply yet)
Then align all partitions on SSD Align All Partitions ? MiniTool Partition Wizard help.
Now press APPLY
Why alignment?? It is described here SSD Alignment

The new start sector of C triggers partition wizard to modify the bootmenu and registry so it will succesfully boot afterwards.


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My laptop does recognize the SSD as I ran winsat disk on the command prompt and the score is 7.9. Ok, so if I merge the C partition with the unallocated space, it won't change the system on my C or erase any files, right?

Do it. Resize and align all partitions afterwards. Then press APPLY. It reboots, does its task.. and all files are still there.

bcdedit/enum all
output please

After the reboot the C drive is as you want. But do once again:
Turn system restore on (most likely already is) System Restore - Enable or Disable
and look if there are any ghost drives there. Disable (so configure->turn off) for ghost disks (if any). Turn it on for C