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Migrating OS from one SSD to another

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Burner27 said:
Why wouldn't you do a full disk backup?
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Cause I didn't want ANY problems. I couldn't get a definitive answer so I just did a full reinstall. At worst I lost a bit of time, at best I eliminated extra registry and junk I did not need or use.
 
kbp said:
Clean Install - Upgrade disk
Boot and install from disk.
Do not put license number in when prompted.
Do not auto initiate windows install license.

Once windows (clean install) has booted to windows screen - Re-Install from disk (in windows) this time put in OEM license code.
Now let it get all the updates and initialize license number.

You can now install everything else....software anti-virus....ect.
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Huh, I haven't tried that. I remember trying to input the upgrade license code in the initial install and it said this key was for upgrades only but I guess I can try it this way.
 
cmdrdredd said:
Cause I didn't want ANY problems. I couldn't get a definitive answer so I just did a full reinstall. At worst I lost a bit of time, at best I eliminated extra registry and junk I did not need or use.
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I am sorry but maybe I don't follow your logic. If you do a full backup and restore from that full backup to another drive - where would there be any problems?
 
FWIW, I bought one of the 80 GB Intel 320 series drives when they were really cheap earlier this year and migrated the OS from a 120 GB Intel X25 SSD down to the 80 GB. I resized the partition using GParted and then used EaseUS (IIRC) for the clone. I did have to realign it but it was pretty painless using GParted to do that.
 
Burner27 said:
I am sorry but maybe I don't follow your logic. If you do a full backup and restore from that full backup to another drive - where would there be any problems?
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Alignment issues. I didn't want to deal with any possible problems. I looked for info and decided to just start from scratch. No big deal. Now I have a clean windows install with drivers and updates backed up for crash recovery.

I had a real hard time finding out whether I will have an aligned partition or not. Only found the info after I got windows installed.
 
So my new ssd drive comes tomorrow and I tried to upgrade Vista -> Win7 on the hdd and it wouldn't let me do it and said I needed to do a clean install. Guess it's time to upgrade.
 
kbp said:
Clean Install - Upgrade disk
Boot and install from disk.
Do not put license number in when prompted.
Do not auto initiate windows install license.

Once windows (clean install) has booted to windows screen - Re-Install from disk (in windows) this time put in OEM license code.
Now let it get all the updates and initialize license number.

You can now install everything else....software anti-virus....ect.
Click to expand...

Huh, I haven't tried that. I remember trying to input the upgrade license code in the initial install and it said this key was for upgrades only but I guess I can try it this way.
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Wow just did the instructions and Win7 was able to activate with the upgrade key. Thanks KBP!
 
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