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  1. Posts : 12,012
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       #61

    leehop71 said:
    So the only way cloning will work is like I did the SSD in my HP. Clone the existing HDD onto the SSD, then replace?
    Clone? No.

    Imaging? Yes. From the new PC's hard drive to the SSD.

    Or just download a free and legit Windows ISO of the same version that you get on the new PC. Burn it to a DVD and install from that DVD directly to the SSD after you put it in the new PC. Activate with your new Product Key from the sticker on your new PC. That's entirely legal.

    We can point you to the source for the ISO if you want to do that.

    You would lose whatever crap Dell or Gateway may have put on the new PC's hard drive. Not likely you'd need any of it anyway.

    If you go the ISO route, you'd have to reinstall your programs. If you image, you won't.

    You can't clone because the new HD is a lot larger than the SSD. And cloning is a bit shaky anyway.

    I'd do a clean install to the SSD using an ISO, but it's your call.
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  2. Posts : 56
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #62

    ignatzatsonic said:
    leehop71 said:
    So the only way cloning will work is like I did the SSD in my HP. Clone the existing HDD onto the SSD, then replace?
    Clone? No.

    Imaging? Yes. From the new PC's hard drive to the SSD.

    Or just download a free and legit Windows ISO of the same version that you get on the new PC. Burn it to a DVD and install from that DVD. Activate with your new Product Key from the sticker on your new PC. That's entirely legal.

    We can point you to the source for the ISO if you want to do that.

    You would lose whatever crap Dell or Gateway may have put on the new PC's hard drive. Not likely you'd need any of it anyway.

    If you go the ISO route, you'd have to reinstall your programs. If you image, you won't.

    You can't clone because the new HD is a lot larger than the SSD. And cloning is a bit shaky anyway.

    I'd do a clean install to the SSD using an ISO, but it's your call.
    What I did on my HP was buy the Kingston and an installation kit that came with a cloning CD and a USB cable that fit right into the SSD.

    I installed the CD, connected the cable, cloned the HDD to the SSD, took out the HDD, put the SSD, booted it up without issue.
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  3. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #63

    leehop71 said:

    What I did on my HP was buy the Kingston and an installation kit that came with a cloning CD and a USB cable that fit right into the SSD.

    I installed the CD, connected the cable, cloned the HDD to the SSD, took out the HDD, put the SSD, booted it up without issue.
    You can try a clone, but your new hard drive is 1 TB and will have multiple partitions. Your SSD is much smaller. I'm not sure if your cloning software disk can take that into account.

    You can try it.

    If it fails, you would fall back on imaging or a clean install via ISO.
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  4. Posts : 56
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #64

    ignatzatsonic said:
    leehop71 said:

    What I did on my HP was buy the Kingston and an installation kit that came with a cloning CD and a USB cable that fit right into the SSD.

    I installed the CD, connected the cable, cloned the HDD to the SSD, took out the HDD, put the SSD, booted it up without issue.
    You can try a clone, but your new hard drive is 1 TB and will have multiple partitions. Your SSD is much smaller. I'm not sure if your cloning software disk can take that into account.

    You can try it.

    If it fails, you would fall back on imaging or a clean install via ISO.
    Good point! Both drives were 120G on the HP clone.
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  5. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #65

    Cloning will not work. You have to image/restore.

    SSD - Install and Transfer the Operating System
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  6. Posts : 56
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #66

    Okay, since the wife only has 55G on the 120 Kingston, it looks like my best bet is to reinstall programs on the new HDD and clone to the SSD.

    From the research I've done, as long the drive being cloned has less information 55G (75% recommend to be safe) then the drive being cloned to 120G, there shouldn't be any issues.

    Opinions?
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  7. whs
    Posts : 26,210
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       #67

    Again you are wrong. If you clone, the SSD must be at least as big as the partitions from where you clone. If you image, it does not matter. There the size of the data matters.
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  8. Posts : 56
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #68

    whs said:
    Again you are wrong. If you clone, the SSD must be at least as big as the partitions from where you clone. If you image, it does not matter. There the size of the data matters.
    I can't image directly from the HDD to the SSD, correct?
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  9. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #69

    That is correct. You need another disk to place the image. The you restore the image(s) to the SSD from that other disk.
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  10. Posts : 56
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #70

    whs said:
    That is correct. You need another disk to place the image.
    With Acronis, I can image to an external, then restore to the SSD?
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