HELP - How to Migrate from old SSD to new SSD?

[BrodyBoy]

You'll be fine!

[AdelaisAer]

I'M DONE, FINALLY. A few issues, though:

ISSUE #1: It kinda seems a bit slower right now. :S Maybe because it's new? Updated Intel SSD Toolbox to the latest version, ran Optimizer and all the other stuff. Maybe it's just me.

ISSUE #2: The allocated space is still 128GB. Turns out there's a RECOVERY partition, albeit hidden. Is there a way to change that?

EDIT: Checked the partitions in Disc Management. There's 18GB unallocated, wtf?

[fuzon1337]

There is a firmware update for that SSD: Intel® SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool

And here is two Utilities, Tools and Examples

Also be sure to download Intel Rapid Storage Technology, if you don't have that

Hmm.... the recovery partition shouldn't take more space when the old SSD have 160GB or what it was, but since you now have the maked discs with recovery on and the first disc available with the recovery partition on, so there should be no problem removing that partition on the new SSD

[AdelaisAer]

There is a firmware update for that SSD: Intel® SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool

And here is two Utilities, Tools and Examples

Also be sure to download Intel Rapid Storage Technology, if you don't have that

Hmm.... the recovery partition shouldn't take more space when the old SSD have 160GB or what it was, but since you now have the maked discs with recovery on and the first disc available with the recovery partition on, so there should be no problem removing that partition on the new SSD

What's Intel Rapid Storage Technology?

Also, how do I remove that unallocated partition?

[fuzon1337]

Intel Rapid Storage Technology is a utility that makes your HDD/SSD to work faster

I haven't done all these things myself so this is new too me.

Well, not to make your OCD worse.....but even if you merge it, you're not putting Windows at the beginning of the drive, where it should be. To thoroughly resolve that problem, here's how I'd go about it:

• Save a system image of your C: drive (onto a set of DVDs or an external hard drive, and don't forget to make a recovery disc)
• Boot from your Windows Installer disc
• Clean and re-format your hard drive
• Use the recovery disc to restore the system image onto the newly-formatted hard drive

PS: To be clear, Windows won't use that space before it on the hard drive, even if you merge it. It wants to be the first thing on its partition.

Click on the blue arrows to go to the thread, perhaps you can see if there is any other ways to remove that partition

[AdelaisAer]

Intel Rapid Storage Technology is a utility that makes your HDD/SSD to work faster

I haven't done all these things myself so this is new too me.



Click on the blue arrows to go to the thread, perhaps you can see if there is any other ways to remove that partition

Well, the way it's showing for me is like this:

25GB Main Partition //// 124GB OS: System, Boot, Active, Crash, Dump, Primary Partition //// 18.63GB UNALLOCATED

So if I combined the Primary OS and Unallocated, they'll become 142GB or something? But is that bad that it's listed second, right after the 25GB Main Partition?

[fuzon1337]

If I'm not wrong the 25GB main partition is the hidden recovery partition.

As I could understand from what @Brodyboy said in the other thread (with quote) is that you want to have the Windows as the first partition and not the second or third. But you will not be able to get Windows over to the first partition since you can not merge those seperated partitions.... I can be very wrong, but this is what I understood from reading some of the posts in the other thread.

[AdelaisAer]

If I'm not wrong the 25GB main partition is the hidden recovery partition.

As I could understand from what @Brodyboy said in the other thread (with quote) is that you want to have the Windows as the first partition and not the second or third. But you will not be able to get Windows over to the first partition since you can not merge those seperated partitions.... I can be very wrong, but this is what I understood from reading some of the posts in the other thread.

So basically, what I have to do is, create an image of my system. AGAIN. Restart and use the Repair CD, reformat and copy-paste the image, and that will somehow rearrange the partitions?

[BrodyBoy]

Well, the way it's showing for me is like this:

25GB Main Partition //// 124GB OS: System, Boot, Active, Crash, Dump, Primary Partition //// 18.63GB UNALLOCATED

So if I combined the Primary OS and Unallocated, they'll become 142GB or something? But is that bad that it's listed second, right after the 25GB Main Partition?

Yes, if you go into Disk Management and right-click on the OS partition, one of your options is to extend it. If you accept all the default options of the wizard that opens, it will add all the available space to the OS partition.

[BrodyBoy]

Is the problem that you included the recovery partition in your image, and now you don;t want it?