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awemawson:
Shouldn't be difficult should it - done it many times before, but this time it's driving me bonkers  :bang:

It's a Dell 7010 Ultra Small Form Factor Intel Core i3 3220 3.30Ghz, 4GB Ram, 320Gb Hdd with (OEM)Win 7 pre-loaded. HDD and CD are both SATA

What I'm trying to do is replace the disc with an SSD one. So, create a system image, create a system restore CD, physically replace the HDD with the SSD one, boot off the system restore CD, and load up the image to the new drive. How hard can it be  :scratch:

Well the first issue is this PC has only two SATA ports, one dedicated to the hard disc, the other to the CD - so nowhere to put the system image except on a network drive.

So I've generated a system image successfully across the network, swapped the drives, booted off the system restore CD , poined it at the image (which it sees) but it refuses to use it for restore  :bang:

So I've attached a 1 TB USB drive to the system,  generated another system image, but again it refuses to use it to restore  :bang:

So I've installed the new disc in another PC that has more SATA ports, booted off the restore CD, but it won't load the image  :bang:

Now there's nothing particularly important on the original drive except the operating system, so I thought if I did a clean install using one of my genuine Win7 professional 64 bit distribution CDs and use the Certificate of Authenticity number off the PC as it's definitely genuine I should end up good to go. Loads up fine, runs, but the COA won't authenticate - presumably it needs to be loaded from a Dell OEM version of Win 7 professional  :bang:

... argh my head hurts

Current 'plan' is to pull the internal CD thus releasing it's SATA port, install an external CD reader via USB, and try and do a back up and restore internal to the PC - so USB CD reader on order !

... why do I hate PC's ...... I wonder  :scratch:

Joules:
Can you not remove the CD, install the SSD then use disk utilities to transfer the HDD to SSD (mirror?) I think you need to mess about making the SSD partition bootable.  I left the world of PC's many years ago and detest getting dragged back to fix them.   :scratch:

seadog:
I'm just about to do this myself Andrew. In fact, ordered an SSD and carrier 20 minutes ago. My first thought is, is  the image too large for the new disk? Does your cloning software allow you to copy to a smaller partition? Can you create a smaller image, Win7 allows partition re-sizing on the fly.

Brass_Machine:
Andrew,

I just went through this. I used ghost to create the image. No need for a system restore CD.

Plug the USB drive in. Boot with FalconFour CD (or ISO on thumb drive). Run ghost and put the image on the USB drive. Swap your physical drives and then ghost it back.

Or

Swap your SSD and CD-Rom, Boot FalconFour from USB thumb drive and just clone (ghost) from one drive to the other.

FalconFour CD: http://old.falconfour.com/projects/7  free to download

Eric

Brass_Machine:

--- Quote from: seadog on January 20, 2016, 08:50:55 AM ---I'm just about to do this myself Andrew. In fact, ordered an SSD and carrier 20 minutes ago. My first thought is, is  the image too large for the new disk? Does your cloning software allow you to copy to a smaller partition? Can you create a smaller image, Win7 allows partition re-sizing on the fly.

--- End quote ---

Read the above post. it allows for re-sizing of the disk.

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