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I want to clone my WIN 7 Pro C partition to my new solid state drive
Hello all, thanks in advance for any help.
current setup
C Drive - 400 GB partition on new 2 TB Seagate drive
D Drive - 500 GB partition on same Seagate drive
F Drive - leftover partition from above Seagate drive (around 900GB) - pretty much empty
These drives were created when I had a C drive failure as reported by the Bios - I did a system image backup and restored the system image to the new 2TB Seagate drive and the result was the setup above.
I also have the following installed:
G Drive - 2 TB gaming drive - Steam and about 100+ games installed - origin - etc - no relation to drives above
H Drive - Crucial 960 GB solid state drive - formatted NTFS and empty - SATA internal connection via ICY DOCK
I Drive - 3 TB external USB 3.0 drive for backups
All drives are internal SATA drives except the USB 3.0 drive - also have an external hot swap SATA dock - turned off
I created a windows backup of the C drive to the I drive and then attempted to restore it to the 960 solid state drive but it did not seem to put the files and folders where they had been on the C drive - user error? - the windows restore process is very limited in scope and I was guessing as to how to restore.
I then attempted to do a system image of the C drive to the I drive but this seem to fail almost as soon as it began - I rebooted but have not tried again assuming I screwed something up during my previous restore attempts.
My ultimate goal is to clone the C partition to the solid state drive and boot off of it. Somehow disable the current C drive but still have the D drive as it was before - even possibly removing the C,D,F combo and setting it aside as a backup boot drive. Yes I would be willing to replace the D,F drive with another drive - back both up to the I drive and then restore to a new drive after the Solid state drive is booting.
but back to the SSD drive and getting it cloned and booting- any suggestions on reliable software or methods would be greatly appreciated.
or should I just put the page file on the SSD - set it up for ready boost and move my Steam Games over to it. - I don't know - just dreamed of booting my machine fast instead of the usual wait.