Hey Everyone,
I'm new to this forum although I've often ended up on the site when troubleshooting for random answers through Google. I'll try to be as thorough as possible.
I recently upgraded my entire PC - New Mobo, APU, Graphics Card (to run in crossfire), RAM, HDD, Case. I put it all together in November and after a couple weeks of troubleshooting and tinkering, I finally got it to run really nice.
My old hard drive was a Western Digital 250GB
I upgraded to a Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Hybrid Drive
But a week ago, I decided to upgrade to SSD and bought a Sandisk Extreme 120GB.
I am using the Western Digital as a storage drive.
I broke up the Momentus into multiple partitions, including the C: drive at 60GB.
What I want to do is clone the C: partition onto the entire 120GB SSD. I've done this using "EaseUS Todo Backup".
It clones the partition, but the bytes for the C: partition and the SSD (J
aren't exactly the same... shouldn't they be?
Anyways, my point is:
I go into BIOS and change the order of my Hard Disks to have the Sandisk SSD to be #1 on the boot order. It seems to work fine, but while booting, at the very top of the screen it'll say "Loading Operating System..." (Which is what it does when I boot normally through the C: drive), but it never progresses to actually loading the OS. (Edit: The J: drive is listed as "Active")
I go back to setting the Seagate as the #1 Hard Disk and it boots up fine, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with RAM or Power Supply (as is normally recommended).
Through some searching, I've found that making a clone of the boot partition doesn't including MBR and/or boot.ini? Is this true? I'm somewhat of a novice when it comes to all this and my knowledge of MBR and boot.ini are limited... they are located outside of the boot partition?
My main question is: How can I make an exact clone of my C: partition (60GB) onto my J: SSD (120GB) and make the J: bootable into Windows 7? (Also, I want to keep my entire SSD into one partition using the entire disk space... I don't want it split into multiple partitions).
(Other information that may be useful: I am running Windows 7 Professional x64. I've tried doing a sector-by-sector clone, but it doesn't allow me to make the partition the full size of the SSD, it cuts it off to the partition that I'm cloning and makes me split the drive into multiple partitions. Lastly, while I am waiting for help/suggestions, I am downloading and trying the Free Trial of Acronis True Image Home 2012. Maybe that'll do a better job at cloning... I think my problem lies in the cloning not including MBR/boot.ini though).
Thanks in advance for any help. Sorry if my post is sloppy/confusing.
I'm new to this forum although I've often ended up on the site when troubleshooting for random answers through Google. I'll try to be as thorough as possible.
I recently upgraded my entire PC - New Mobo, APU, Graphics Card (to run in crossfire), RAM, HDD, Case. I put it all together in November and after a couple weeks of troubleshooting and tinkering, I finally got it to run really nice.
My old hard drive was a Western Digital 250GB
I upgraded to a Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Hybrid Drive
But a week ago, I decided to upgrade to SSD and bought a Sandisk Extreme 120GB.
I am using the Western Digital as a storage drive.
I broke up the Momentus into multiple partitions, including the C: drive at 60GB.
What I want to do is clone the C: partition onto the entire 120GB SSD. I've done this using "EaseUS Todo Backup".
It clones the partition, but the bytes for the C: partition and the SSD (J
aren't exactly the same... shouldn't they be?Anyways, my point is:
I go into BIOS and change the order of my Hard Disks to have the Sandisk SSD to be #1 on the boot order. It seems to work fine, but while booting, at the very top of the screen it'll say "Loading Operating System..." (Which is what it does when I boot normally through the C: drive), but it never progresses to actually loading the OS. (Edit: The J: drive is listed as "Active")
I go back to setting the Seagate as the #1 Hard Disk and it boots up fine, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with RAM or Power Supply (as is normally recommended).
Through some searching, I've found that making a clone of the boot partition doesn't including MBR and/or boot.ini? Is this true? I'm somewhat of a novice when it comes to all this and my knowledge of MBR and boot.ini are limited... they are located outside of the boot partition?
My main question is: How can I make an exact clone of my C: partition (60GB) onto my J: SSD (120GB) and make the J: bootable into Windows 7? (Also, I want to keep my entire SSD into one partition using the entire disk space... I don't want it split into multiple partitions).
(Other information that may be useful: I am running Windows 7 Professional x64. I've tried doing a sector-by-sector clone, but it doesn't allow me to make the partition the full size of the SSD, it cuts it off to the partition that I'm cloning and makes me split the drive into multiple partitions. Lastly, while I am waiting for help/suggestions, I am downloading and trying the Free Trial of Acronis True Image Home 2012. Maybe that'll do a better job at cloning... I think my problem lies in the cloning not including MBR/boot.ini though).
Thanks in advance for any help. Sorry if my post is sloppy/confusing.
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