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Purchasing Larger SSD: Fresh Install or Image?

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Arsynic

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I foolishly bought a 40 GB SSD thinking that it would be a great idea for just a system drive. Wrong. Windows being the bloated OS that it is has rendered my SSD useless and poor performing. So I had to bite the bullet and upgrade it to 120 GB which should be enough for a boot drive. I'm leaning towards imaging the SSD to expedite the upgrade.

Is that advisable or should I just do a fresh install?
 
Since you don't have many programs installed there I don't see many problems with imaging. I've done it before on boot drives and haven't had issues. I'm struggling with a ~60gig drive so I can imagine you being a bit limited 😛
 
If you remove Hibernate and shrink the pagefile, a 40gb should be just fine. I am only using 11gb on my Windows 7 install.
 
superccs said:
What happens if you have apps or a documents folder installed on a D:\ drive?
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then you try imaging... and if you fail, you reinstall, then copy the files from the 40GB over to the new SSD

@SLK, think 64bit W7 uses more space

// tried using Clonezilla to clone a 96GB SSD to a 120GB SSD... was in a macbook pro (OS X) with some weird partitioning... clone was fine, had some problems with extending the partition due to a weird 3rd partition showing up(i blame OS X for that), but could delete that 3rd partition, resize, and everything was fine (it was aligned)
 
paperwastage said:
then you try imaging... and if you fail, you reinstall, then copy the files from the 40GB over to the new SSD

@SLK, think 64bit W7 uses more space

// tried using Clonezilla to clone a 96GB SSD to a 120GB SSD... was in a macbook pro (OS X) with some weird partitioning... clone was fine, had some problems with extending the partition due to a weird 3rd partition showing up(i blame OS X for that), but could delete that 3rd partition, resize, and everything was fine (it was aligned)
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I am using W7 64 Ultimate on both my machines. Uses 10.12gb on a fresh install with 1gb page file. Yeah, if you have 16gb of RAM and let windows manage the Pagefile, then it will use almost the whole SSD.
 
You can image, but don't let the imaging program attempt to resize the partition. Copy it as is (40GB) and then extend it once you're in Windows through Disk Management. That will let you preserve the partition alignment that the Windows installer creates.
 
SLK said:
I am using W7 64 Ultimate on both my machines. Uses 10.12gb on a fresh install with 1gb page file. .
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I think my W7 install used about 12Gb... I disabled hibernate, too. I'm up to about 35GB on my 60GB SSD with my essential programs and utilities loaded on it. I don't expect to go much higher than that except for an odd utility here and there. :biggrin:

I would probably do a clean install, myself, that would give you the chance to set up the drive and OS install exactly the way you wanted it.
 
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