Swapping Hard Drives

[gregson66]

Ok you guys are always pretty helpful on this forum so i just bought a
1TB Samsung840 EVO SSD
to replace my
1TB Seagate ST1000DL002-9TT153 HDD
(not sure if the models are relevant here)

and i want to if possible just copy one over straight to the other without reinstalling windows and all my programs. Upon clicking the "storage" part of the forums i noticed this old sticky:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/196922-32-switching-storage-controllers-reinstalling-windows

Is this RAID Specific or is this relevant to what id like to do?
i had a little skim through it and saw it was talking about disk controllers and i dont understand what that means is that just something you just use with RAID?

On my last hard drive swap i tried making a backup, changing hard drives then trying to restore the backup but it told me it wouldnt work because i didnt have identical hardware to the computer the backup was made from.

If that sticky isnt right for me then does anybody know of a way i can do this?

Thanks Chris

 

[USAFRet]

Going to a SSD, I always recommend a fresh install. Why bring along all the old cruft existing on the current drive?

But if you must, something like CloneZilla or DriveImageXML will do what you're looking for.

 

[gregson66]

Going to a SSD, I always recommend a fresh install. Why bring along all the old cruft existing on the current drive?

But if you must, something like CloneZilla or DriveImageXML will do what you're looking for.

Does an Install on an ssd work any different to an hdd then?
I havent had this current drive for too long, maybe not even a year, and i keep it fairly clean and well looked after in regards to not filling it with with rubbish i dont need. unless theres any actual clutter from the windows install thatll slow it down?

thanks for those 2 programs though, i assume its just simply clone the drive and change the boot?

 

[USAFRet]

Going to a SSD, I always recommend a fresh install. Why bring along all the old cruft existing on the current drive?

But if you must, something like CloneZilla or DriveImageXML will do what you're looking for.

Does an Install on an ssd work any different to an hdd then?
I havent had this current drive for too long, maybe not even a year, and i keep it fairly clean and well looked after in regards to not filling it with with rubbish i dont need. unless theres any actual clutter from the windows install thatll slow it down?

thanks for those 2 programs though, i assume its just simply clone the drive and change the boot?

Aside from BIOS mode, an SSD is just another drive. Installs just the same.

Basically, yes. You clone from one to the other, change boot drive priority, boot into the new drive to verify it actually works, blow away anything on the original HDD.

 

[gregson66]

Basically, yes. You clone from one to the other, change boot drive priority, boot into the new drive to verify it actually works, blow away anything on the original HDD.

Hi i did as you said and it seems to have worked except everytime i boot up my pc i get the black screen with 2 options

Windows - which takes me to where id be doing a fresh install
and
Windows 7 (Recovered) - which loads up my pc as it should

do you have any experience of this? did i accidentally create a partition that its trying to load from or something? do you know how i can get rid of this?