With the new technology of SSD coming to a reasonable price, we all want to give it a try. One thing that stands out as a problem is "How do I copy a 1+tb drive onto a little 60gb drive!?!?!" Well, it is possible, and here is how I've accomplished it.
First, if your drive is filled to a capacity larger than your new SSD you need to get all of your NON OS essential things over to a different drive( ie media, pictures, music, documents). You must get your existing OS drive usage down to the size of your new SSD or this guide will not work for you.
Install your new SSD into your system and boot up as normal
Now, download and install "EASEUS Todo Backup Home 2.0"
Open the shortcut to our new program.
Under the Home tab, click Clone.
Next click Disk Clone and click next.
Choose your system volume (usually disk 1) and click next
Choose your new SSD volume and click next.
Cloning should begin
When it completes, exit Easeus and shutdown the computer.
Unplug your "old" boot drive from sata/power.
Boot system into bios and set new SSD as boot drive.
Save and exit.
The computer should now boot into windows as normal.
Windows will now ask to restart, allow it.
Now, if you installed windows7 with IDE hard drive configuration, this step is for you to reinstate ahci.
Once windows7 has rebooted, do the following:
Exit all Windows-based programs.
Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesMsahci
In the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.
After this you'll have to restart your computer, go to BIOS and enable AHCI. When you log in to Windows again, you'll notice the installation of drivers for AHCI. Another restart will be required to finish the driver installation.
Allow one more restart sequence then power down the system.
Now we can hook our old HDD back up.
Boot the system into the BIOS and reassure that reconnecting the old boot drive do not change the HDD boot sequence, if it did, return the SSD to main boot drive.
Let the system boot into windows7.
Goto Start Menu>Control Panel>System and Security>Administrative Tools
and click on Computer Management
Click on Storage in the right column
Click on Disk Management
Find your OLD boot drive in the bottom section of the right column (it should have a reserved system partition and another partition).
Right click each of those two and "delete volume"
Now you should have one large allocated area.
Right click that area and choose "New simple volume"
This will start a wizard.
Click next.
Assure the full volume is to be allocated and click next again.
Assign the drive letter you wish to give this new volume and click next.
Format this new volume with ntfs, default, and whatever you wish to name it. Ensure Quick Format is checked, and click next.
Click finish.
You have now completely swapped your OS over to your new SSD and reformatted the old volume.
First, if your drive is filled to a capacity larger than your new SSD you need to get all of your NON OS essential things over to a different drive( ie media, pictures, music, documents). You must get your existing OS drive usage down to the size of your new SSD or this guide will not work for you.
Install your new SSD into your system and boot up as normal
Now, download and install "EASEUS Todo Backup Home 2.0"
Open the shortcut to our new program.
Under the Home tab, click Clone.
Next click Disk Clone and click next.
Choose your system volume (usually disk 1) and click next
Choose your new SSD volume and click next.
Cloning should begin
When it completes, exit Easeus and shutdown the computer.
Unplug your "old" boot drive from sata/power.
Boot system into bios and set new SSD as boot drive.
Save and exit.
The computer should now boot into windows as normal.
Windows will now ask to restart, allow it.
Now, if you installed windows7 with IDE hard drive configuration, this step is for you to reinstate ahci.
Once windows7 has rebooted, do the following:
Exit all Windows-based programs.
Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesMsahci
In the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.
After this you'll have to restart your computer, go to BIOS and enable AHCI. When you log in to Windows again, you'll notice the installation of drivers for AHCI. Another restart will be required to finish the driver installation.
Allow one more restart sequence then power down the system.
Now we can hook our old HDD back up.
Boot the system into the BIOS and reassure that reconnecting the old boot drive do not change the HDD boot sequence, if it did, return the SSD to main boot drive.
Let the system boot into windows7.
Goto Start Menu>Control Panel>System and Security>Administrative Tools
and click on Computer Management
Click on Storage in the right column
Click on Disk Management
Find your OLD boot drive in the bottom section of the right column (it should have a reserved system partition and another partition).
Right click each of those two and "delete volume"
Now you should have one large allocated area.
Right click that area and choose "New simple volume"
This will start a wizard.
Click next.
Assure the full volume is to be allocated and click next again.
Assign the drive letter you wish to give this new volume and click next.
Format this new volume with ntfs, default, and whatever you wish to name it. Ensure Quick Format is checked, and click next.
Click finish.
You have now completely swapped your OS over to your new SSD and reformatted the old volume.
