Cecilia Zhou While I agree that a clean install of Win7 is fast enough compared to a restore, the problem is that I have already spent several days building a production system with many applications. If your backup software changes the alignment, you will have to virgin install or get different back up software. It can help you clone your disk as well as partition, and most importantly, without reinstalling Windows. Then make a new single partition on the old drive and move your data back to it. This is what I want to do in order to provide a backup copy of my Windows 7 volume C: on my single hard disc Asus K53U laptop. Bottom Line Here comes to the end of this post. Hello J W Stuart and thank you for your reply, As I'm a bit of a noob with windows I've looked only now in the disk management and I saw this.
In addition to MiniTool ShadowMaker, MiniTool Partition Wizard is also the best tool to clone a hard drive. I may try that if I feel adventurous. I can easily transfer the Windows partition using Acronis or other tools. Or else, one disk may be marked as offline by Windows operating system. As for the method of system migration, if you have any suggestion, you can also inform us. Can someone help me on how to do this? This forum has some of the best people in the world available to help. Are you sure you want to start cloning now? Besides, more and more people nowadays tend to use a solid state drive as the system drive due to its attractive price and powerful performance.
Before you start Windows 10 system migration, please download MiniTool ShadowMaker Trial Edition for 30-day free use. J W Stuart: Never be afraid to ask. This operation allows you to move all your folders back to the original hard drive and restore all your personal files from the back up. But if I have to reinstall everything, I can do that. I have several questions before. I concur with noxcho's recommendation. Step 1: Launch MiniTool ShadowMaker, and then a window will pop up showing you two backup types such as local backup and remote backup.
Additional contributions by Andrew E. Shut down your computer, remove the old drive and install the new in the same place. Just select a partition as the destination drive. Select the source and destination drives in the cloning software. Then you see two migration modes. However, I want to save time and just be able to clone exactly what I have onto the new drive. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help.
If it does not appear e. Due to different cloning needs, the specific operations are different. Is this the right way? So then I'm now doing a clean install of Windows. After you have made sure nothing important is on the target disk, click Yes to continue. Never be afraid to ask.
Disk Imaging A disk image is a single file that contains all the files and data in a hard drive. Similar help and support threads Thread Forum Hey guys I'm hoping you could help me. Here in this post, we will show you two tools for this job. We ran each test multiple times and took the average. Now, let's have a look at some of its features. Microsoft do not provide support for 3rd party software. It takes a few extra steps, but a lot less time.
Clean up your drive for additional space. To resize these partitions, first select one, then drag the handles that appear between the partitions, much as if you were resizing a File Explorer window. Image Backups and restores are fully functional. You can probably manipulate the partitions on the old drive with Partition Wizard bootable disc, but you should back up your data to some other drive before you start in case something goes wrong--which can happen. After the clone is completed, the machine will restart. Without the help of Ghost, what else can we use? I kept hitting the 0x80042403 error despite my system recovery partition and main partition included in my system image being well below the size of the ssd.
You will need to move all your precious files over to it in order to slim down your Windows partition. In the worse case if it fails, I can always use Parted Magic to secure erase and do a clean install anyway. After the process is 100% completed successfully, a pop-up window will ask you whether you want to shut down your computer now. This forum has some of the best people in the world available to help. Nevertheless, this way is not the best solution. My back up software did not change the alignment set in Diskpart.
It can be used as since it supports file backup, partition backup, and disk backup. Warning: During the cloning process, all data on the target disk will be destroyed. This forum has some of the best people in the world available to help. To do this, the next steps are fairly simple. Step 10 The program will take a few moments to complete the process of creating a bootable drive for you.