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OS split across 2 drives, want to put all on a third
Hi All,
I currently have windows 7 professional 64 bit installed and running fine originally installed only on a 60 GB Agility 3 SSD. I keep running out of disk space on this drive so I purchased a 240 GB PNY SSD and now I want to move my OS to the new drive.
When I tried to do this by making a system image with Windows Backup and Restore it told me that the OS was split across two physical drives, 55 GB on the Agility 3 SSD and about 20 GB on a WD 1TB drive.
I went ahead and made the image it recommended using only the options I couldn't uncheck (both the Agility and the WD 1TB drive data) thereby making a backup of the approximately 75 GB of combined data. I put this image on a seperate HDD, a WD Velociraptor 300GB.
I unplugged all of the drives except the new PNY 240GB drive (empty, but formatted) and the drive with the image (WD Velociraptor 300GB) and booted up with a Windows System Repair disk.
When it gave me the option to restore from an image everything seemed to be working fine until I got an error that said that I needed have the same number of drives and space as the original image contained.
Does this mean I have to have another drive installed so that the image can be spanned across two disks even though I have plenty of room on the new drive?
What I want to do ideally is take the OS from where it currently is (Spanned across the Agility SSD and the WD 1TB) and put it on the new drive (PNY 240GB SSD).
Welcoming any suggestions on how to accomplish this without having to reinstall windows. I have the windows 7 install disk, but I have a ton of installed software that is in storage right now and not easily accessable.
Thanks in advance!