SSD - Install and Transfer the Operating System

Yeah great tutorial dude. Thanks for your time writing it.

If this has already been covered please point me in the right direction:

I'm running 64 bit Vista on an HDD but am moving to W7 on an SSD. I also plan to reinstall the rest of my software on the SSD but that's for another thread.

My question is what to do with the Vista that's left on the remaining HDD once I've booted up with W7 on the new SSD?
Can it just be uninstalled like any other program or will there be a clash between the 2 op. systems?

Any advice, however obvious much appreciated.


Phill

After searching for many hours on how to make a move to SSD I finally found this thread and decided to go with Paragon tool.
It worked with no problem for me. Transferred OS from HDD to SSD that was in USB enclosure at the time in about 1 HR,
with roughly 80GB on HDD at time.
After that I did physical swap of drives, went to BIOS and Patriot Pyro SSD was already there and set to 1st priority.
After that I created "D data" on SSD drive, and all of "my documents" were back on D, I'm guessing windows transferred it automatically, it was mapped to store "my documents" on D, and at this time I had HDD in USB enclosure connected to the laptop that had the files still on there.
And that was that.
It would've been nice if it automatically created this D partition on a new drive, but it does OS transfer that was on C so I can't really complain.
So the whole process took 30 minutes maybe, not counting the transfer time, but to get there it took a couple of days of search...well that includes trying to troubleshoot windows not being able to start a back up process...but
that's a whole another issue...

However I saw some complaints about Paragon and wanted to say there is other side of a coin as well, when it works perfectly well.

Thank you

@Buco
The Paragon migrate tool appears to work fine for most people. It is also a simple turnkey app. I bought it out of laziness but unfortunately had problems with the reliability monitor after the transfer.
In the end I just did a manual transfer with a system reserved and OS partition. The manual transfer doesn't really take much effort.

mjf said:

@Buco
The Paragon migrate tool appears to work fine for most people. It is also a simple turnkey app. I bought it out of laziness but unfortunately had problems with the reliability monitor after the transfer.
In the end I just did a manual transfer with a system reserved and OS partition. The manual transfer doesn't really take much effort.

I would've been much more apprehensive to even try Paragon if whs wasn't repeatedly saying "it's fine, trust me", cause there was definitely enough complaints to sway me the other way, but I realize people are much faster to complain about something then give a thumbs up so I figured "if this guy is so adamant in saying that works there must be ton of other happy people out there too".

Now I'm not experiencing dramatic changes in laptop performance not even in booting up and shutting down time. I never measured what the time was before the change because I thought it'll be night and day or at least that's what everyone agrees, so I thought it'll be easy to tell the difference.
In WEI disc write speed or whatever it's called did go from 5.5 to 7.5 so that's my piece of mind.
I did all the basic tweaks that are mentioned at the start.
But I guess if I really want it to make a difference I'll have to do what my buddy was saying from the start "go from scratch", as I've been working on this laptop for a little over 2 years now.

And by the way this forum seems to be the best windows 7 resource on the net that I can see so thank you!

As I said I'm in the minority not totally happy with the Paragon migrate tool. You pay your money you take your chance.

I'm surprised you haven't seen a dramatic change, especially booting and shutting down. I get one fade of the splash screen and I'm into the logon screen. The Windows user page then appears almost instantly. Shutting down is around a second.

Try running a speed check
AS SSD
look for the English link

Edit: BIOS POST will always take its time.