SSD - Install and Transfer the Operating System

Hmm, this is indeed puzzling. Changing the boot order should not present any problem. When you change the BIOS to AHCI, you should first set Win7 to AHCI AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista

whs,
good tute.
As I get closer to finally getting an SSD (Crucial M4 128GB) I will moving the OS / installed programs from a 110GB partition (spinner) so reimaging should be fine from the partition size point of view. I don't want to clean install because of the reactivation hassles of licensed third party software and the rest.

Anyway as you know I mainly use Windows 7 imaging but this may be a problem. It will want to reformat to the exact HDD partition structure the old image was made from. It appears to me that this may undo all the important alignment prep work? My understanding is that Macrium will reimage to the partition structure and alignment YOU define in the prep work. Is this your understanding?

Yes you are right. You just dump the images into the predefined, aligned partitions. Even easier would be to use the Paragon tool. Then you are done in 20 minutes and all is automatic - alignment, transfer and the whole bit.

mjf said:

Thanks whs. I'd be interested to know if people have been generally happy with the Paragon tool.

A lot of people were raving about it. SIW2 was the first to discover it. I got it for free and used it 3 or 4 times. Worked perfectly with just a couple of clicks.

MoBeans said:

I installed a 64 gig SSD as primary drive . Did a Fresh install . What i need to know is my Terabyte drive has windows 7 on it also . Do i need to reformat drive to get rid of windows 7 . The SSD has the same system on it ! Thanks , MoBeans

It is safer if you first post a complete picture of your Disk Management. It could very well be that the installer has placed the bootmgr for your SSD 7 on the TB drive. If that is the case, then the situation is a bit complicated. But with a pic of Disk Management, we could see that.

And please do not bold the posting.

OK, just make sure that you have a 100MB hidden active partition on the SSD - alternatively if there is no 100MB partition, C must be active. If that is the case, you can delete the Win7 from the 1TB partition - unless you want to keep it as an emergency system. You can always boot into it when changing the BIOS boot sequence.