Question Clone HDD SO partition to a SSD

[Andrei97]

I got a 300GB HDD with 2 partitions (respectively around 135GB and 140GB). The first partition cointains the Win 7 SO and a couple of programs, the second is just personal data. I wish to clone the first partition only (the one with the SO and the programs) to a 240GB SSD.


I made a couple of attempts using Clonezilla:

I created an image of the first partition (+ the "system reserved" 100MB partition that shows up as well, it is right to select that too, I guess?), but when I try to restore the image to the SSD drive it doesnt work: "sda2 missing or kernel too old" or something like that... Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible to do that?


If it's not clear, of course I put the image of the partition into a 2nd HDD, and then tried to restore the image from there to the SSD.


Thanks for the help!

 

[Andrei97]

So, I have to create an USB bootable for windows 7 installation, and type the commands you wrote before from there. Is it right?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yes. That's the idea.

 

[Andrei97]

Letters assigned, operation completed and now it shows up in the BIOS! But still same problems... Arrives here and nothing happens. Hopeless lol

 

[SkyNetRising]

Are you sure, you used correct drive letters?
Try performing bcdboot command on fathers' pc.

Also perform these commands there:

bootrec /fixmbr​

bootrec /fixboot​