I have been searching around and trying different methods to move windows to my new hard drive and nothing has worked.
I currently have a 1 TB hard drive and I am moving to a 40GB hard drive.
I have tried backing up as an image on the new hard drive but it will not boot from this. Please help.
Using Windows Backup and Restore, create a system image to an EXTERNAL USB drive.
Using a System Repair Disk, do a system image restore.
START | type System Repair | Enter key | Create Disk button
CREATE AND RESTORE A SYSTEM IMAGE
CREATE A SYSTEM IMAGE BACKUP
· START | type Backup your computer | Enter key
· In left-hand pane, select Create a System Image
· select where you want to save the backup | Next
· Select the drives you want to backup | Next
· Start Backup button
· Finish button after completion
RESTORE A SYSTEM IMAGE BACKUP
· Boot from the System Repair CD you created.
· Connect the external drive with the backup image
· NEXT button (change language if desired)
· Restore your computer using a system image
that you created earlier radio button
· NEXT button
· Use the latest available system image radio button
· NEXT button
· Format and repartition disks checkbox
· NEXT button
· FINISH button
· YES button
Last edited by Brink; 24 Jul 2010 at 21:37. Reason: added links
I tried doing that with dvds and I could not boot from them. I don't know how you could fit the files on a flash drive it is over 20GB.
Just follow the directions using an EXTERNAL USB DRIVE (not a UFD).
Sorry for the confusion.
I did all this I created a image of my system on DVDS removed my old hard drive hooked up the new one and tried to boot from the DVDS I made and it would not work.
Can no one help? I am going crazy this new hard drive was expensive and idk why I cant move windows 7 onto it.
Somebody told me that images can be transferred to a larger disk than the original, but not onto a smaller one. However, I don't know if that's really true, I've never tried it.
Why would you go FROM a 1 TB drive TO a 40 GB drive????
Also, to move from one drive to another, you will need a disk cloning tool such as Acronis. Using a disk imaging tool, you need an intermediary device. You don't boot from the image. You take an image of the old drive to a third device (ie external drive), and then restore the image from that device to the new drive. Very simple stuff, easily Google-able.
It can be done, IF the data on the image of the larger drive is small enough to fit onto the small partition.
For best results, you may want to look at Acronis Tru Image Home. It will alow you to make either disk images that can be restored to a different drive, or you can do a direct clone of one drive to another (although this is only a fraction of the features it offers).
And btw, are you sure you want to use a 40GB drive for your system drive? I'm just barely manbaging with an old 80GB Seagate, and am considering cloning it over to one of my 120GB drives...
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