Hello Terabyte.
Been ages since I last posted to you folks (was during the USENET days). Anyway, it's been so long since I've done this that I thought I should check here before proceeding. I am a owner/user of BootIt BM 1.25a and IFD/IFW. My homebuilt computer system is a two-year old Intel I7 with a modern, MSI motherboard. When I built the system I decided to install a 120GB Intel SSD as the boot and Windows 7 OS drive, and keep most of my other data on two separate 1TB HDD's.
I regularly back up my Win7 boot drive (ie, the SSD) and also my two HDD's using IFD. As my SSD boot drive is now almost 90% full, I want to change it out for a new, 512GB SSD. Problem is I'm not quite 100% sure how to do this. Is it just a matter of connecting my new SSD to another SATA connection, booting into BootIt BM and then copying the image from my old SSD to the new one? Something tells me this won't work, and hope the fine folks at Terabyte will advise. Sorry, I looked in the FAQ section but did not see a write-up on this specific topic.
Can someone there please advise? Thank you.
Transfering my current SSD boot drive to new SSD boot drive
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Gary Seven
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TeraByte Support
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Re: Transfering my current SSD boot drive to new SSD boot drive
Sure, just do an entire drive backup, then entire drive restore with scale
to fit. If you're going to leave the old drive in, use the restore option
to change the disk sig and guids (and if update boot partition is available,
use that).
(you could also do it as an entire drive copy).
"Gary Seven" wrote in message news:9930@public.image...
Hello Terabyte.
Been ages since I last posted to you folks (was during the USENET days).
Anyway, it's been so long since I've done this that I thought I should check
here before proceeding. I am a owner/user of BootIt BM 1.25a and IFD/IFW.
My homebuilt computer system is a two-year old Intel I7 with a modern, MSI
motherboard. When I built the system I decided to install a 120GB Intel SSD
as the boot and Windows 7 OS drive, and keep most of my other data on two
separate 1TB HDD's.
I regularly back up my Win7 boot drive (ie, the SSD) and also my two HDD's
using IFD. As my SSD boot drive is now almost 90% full, I want to change it
out for a new, 512GB SSD. Problem is I'm not quite 100% sure how to do
this. Is it just a matter of connecting my new SSD to another SATA
connection, booting into BootIt BM and then copying the image from my old
SSD to the new one? Something tells me this won't work, and hope the fine
folks at Terabyte will advise. Sorry, I looked in the FAQ section but did
not see a write-up on this specific topic.
Can someone there please advise? Thank you.
to fit. If you're going to leave the old drive in, use the restore option
to change the disk sig and guids (and if update boot partition is available,
use that).
(you could also do it as an entire drive copy).
"Gary Seven" wrote in message news:9930@public.image...
Hello Terabyte.
Been ages since I last posted to you folks (was during the USENET days).
Anyway, it's been so long since I've done this that I thought I should check
here before proceeding. I am a owner/user of BootIt BM 1.25a and IFD/IFW.
My homebuilt computer system is a two-year old Intel I7 with a modern, MSI
motherboard. When I built the system I decided to install a 120GB Intel SSD
as the boot and Windows 7 OS drive, and keep most of my other data on two
separate 1TB HDD's.
I regularly back up my Win7 boot drive (ie, the SSD) and also my two HDD's
using IFD. As my SSD boot drive is now almost 90% full, I want to change it
out for a new, 512GB SSD. Problem is I'm not quite 100% sure how to do
this. Is it just a matter of connecting my new SSD to another SATA
connection, booting into BootIt BM and then copying the image from my old
SSD to the new one? Something tells me this won't work, and hope the fine
folks at Terabyte will advise. Sorry, I looked in the FAQ section but did
not see a write-up on this specific topic.
Can someone there please advise? Thank you.
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TeraByte Support
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- Joined: Thu May 05, 2011 10:37 pm
Re: Transfering my current SSD boot drive to new SSD boot drive
also, might as well update to the latest version first.
"TeraByte Support" wrote in message news:9931@public.image...
Sure, just do an entire drive backup, then entire drive restore with scale
to fit. If you're going to leave the old drive in, use the restore option
to change the disk sig and guids (and if update boot partition is available,
use that).
(you could also do it as an entire drive copy).
"Gary Seven" wrote in message news:9930@public.image...
Hello Terabyte.
Been ages since I last posted to you folks (was during the USENET days).
Anyway, it's been so long since I've done this that I thought I should check
here before proceeding. I am a owner/user of BootIt BM 1.25a and IFD/IFW.
My homebuilt computer system is a two-year old Intel I7 with a modern, MSI
motherboard. When I built the system I decided to install a 120GB Intel SSD
as the boot and Windows 7 OS drive, and keep most of my other data on two
separate 1TB HDD's.
I regularly back up my Win7 boot drive (ie, the SSD) and also my two HDD's
using IFD. As my SSD boot drive is now almost 90% full, I want to change it
out for a new, 512GB SSD. Problem is I'm not quite 100% sure how to do
this. Is it just a matter of connecting my new SSD to another SATA
connection, booting into BootIt BM and then copying the image from my old
SSD to the new one? Something tells me this won't work, and hope the fine
folks at Terabyte will advise. Sorry, I looked in the FAQ section but did
not see a write-up on this specific topic.
Can someone there please advise? Thank you.
"TeraByte Support" wrote in message news:9931@public.image...
Sure, just do an entire drive backup, then entire drive restore with scale
to fit. If you're going to leave the old drive in, use the restore option
to change the disk sig and guids (and if update boot partition is available,
use that).
(you could also do it as an entire drive copy).
"Gary Seven" wrote in message news:9930@public.image...
Hello Terabyte.
Been ages since I last posted to you folks (was during the USENET days).
Anyway, it's been so long since I've done this that I thought I should check
here before proceeding. I am a owner/user of BootIt BM 1.25a and IFD/IFW.
My homebuilt computer system is a two-year old Intel I7 with a modern, MSI
motherboard. When I built the system I decided to install a 120GB Intel SSD
as the boot and Windows 7 OS drive, and keep most of my other data on two
separate 1TB HDD's.
I regularly back up my Win7 boot drive (ie, the SSD) and also my two HDD's
using IFD. As my SSD boot drive is now almost 90% full, I want to change it
out for a new, 512GB SSD. Problem is I'm not quite 100% sure how to do
this. Is it just a matter of connecting my new SSD to another SATA
connection, booting into BootIt BM and then copying the image from my old
SSD to the new one? Something tells me this won't work, and hope the fine
folks at Terabyte will advise. Sorry, I looked in the FAQ section but did
not see a write-up on this specific topic.
Can someone there please advise? Thank you.