Here is a program designed specifically for moving from and HD to a SSD :
http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-OS-to-SSD/index.html
73 de Mike W9OJ
On 3/25/2011 1:44 PM, Steve Potter wrote:
A good and free and so far 100% reliable application is Easeus
TodoBackup with will clone drives, backup drives to an image, restore
from an image and even mount said image as another drive letter, very
flexible and did I say free...obviously no connection to the company,
just a user as I am of Ghost, Acronis VMware etc etc
The latest is version 2 where they removed the ability to clone server
operating systems... glad I kept my V1.1 hi hi
Yes you can use the above software to clone your drive to a SSD drive,
then change the boot order or remove the old HDD
I retained my hdd as drive D but also 'moved' the c:\users folder to
drive D as a junction point/hard symLink, so the operating system
(win7-64 in my case) doesn't know any difference, therefore all the temp
files, documents, music, pictures and other clutter which resides there
isn't using up valuable IO's on the SSD
This technique of moving Users is simple but has to be followed in a
logical manner and may be different depending on your drive letters,
disk numbers;
Reboot with Win7 / Vista DVD and enter "Repair your computer" mode
Select command prompt
Identify drives. For me C:\ was the
SSD with Windows 7 and D:\ was my HDD
Then move the users directory with:
C:\> move c:\Users c:\Users.bak
Use 'diskpart' to assign the mount
point
C:\> diskpart
list disk
select disk 2 (my HDD)
select partition 1 (main partition)
assign mount=c:\users
exit
From the command prompt, copy the
user files back:
C:\> robocopy /mir /xj c:\Users.bak c:\Users
Reboot and that should be it, but keep your original HDD handy just in
case..
There are other methods to move c:\users folder,
http://serverfault.com/questions/8187/whats-the-best-way-to-move-c-users
-to-d-users-under-vista-w7 is a good source of info
Regards
Steve G6HOQ
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