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

[AdelaisAer]

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.

I've combined it, so now it's 142.68GB. However, the 25GB partition in front of it still exists. What do?

[AdelaisAer]

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

The problem is that I have a 25GB partition in front of my OS partition. I want my full 180GB. I can't expand the OS partition. I can delete the 25GB partition, but Iunno if that'll fully fix my problem. Sec, let me get a screenshot.


As you can see, there's a small 25GB partition. Don't want it. Want my full 180GB.

[BrodyBoy]

Yes. I want to migrate EVERYTHING from the old SSD to the new one.

Not so?

If you didn't want the recovery partition, it needed to be specifically excluded from this process. Is it that big a deal to have it? If you really don't want it, you do need to re-image just the C: partition without the recovery partition, re-format the SSD, and restore the image.

Go ahead and delete the recovery partition....but you still need to re-image if you want to use that 25Gb space before Windows. You can't add it to the beginning of the OS partition and actually use it.

[AdelaisAer]

Not so?

If you didn't want the recovery partition, it needed to be specifically excluded from this process. Is it that big a deal to have it? If you really don't want it, you do need to re-image just the C: partition without the recovery partition, re-format the SSD, and restore the image.

Too late now. xD I did the migration like half an hour ago, maybe an hour. Didn't even realize. >__<;

[BrodyBoy]

Now that you're an old pro at it, it won't take all that long to make a new image and restore it to the whole drive.

[AdelaisAer]

now that you're an old pro at it, it won't take all that long to make a new image and restore it to the whole drive.

;____________; so i have to do everything all over again just so windows can rearrange the partitions so i can expand the os into the 25gb? *cryyyyyy*

[gilbert]

LOL , yup brodyboy is right and yup you have to do it all over again if you want those 25gb ......

[AdelaisAer]

lol , yup brodyboy is right and yup you have to do it all over again if you want those 25gb ......

*emo* oh my god. Create image...use recovery cd, restart, boot from cd, wipe everything out and reformat and recover from image...somehow rearranges the partitions.....expand os parition....done?

[BrodyBoy]

;____________; so i have to do everything all over again just so windows can rearrange the partitions so i can expand the os into the 25gb? *cryyyyyy*

C'mon now....this isn't Windows fault! You said you wanted to migrate EVERYTHING. You did...successfully.

Recommendation: Move your personal data files to a different drive first...there's no point in including them in your system image. Shrink the OS drive to the smallest you can make it (in DIsk Management). Then make your system image of only that partition. (Making the partition smaller, and removing extraneous files, makes all this go faster.) Restore the image to the SSD. Extend the OS partition to use the whole drive. This really shouldn't take all that long.

[BrodyBoy]

...somehow rearranges the partitions.....

It doesn't rearrange the partitions. It simply restores the image you made to the space you designate. The first time, your image included the recovery partition, so that got restored to the SSD, right before the OS partition, where it belonged. This time, your image will only include the OS partition, so that is all that will be restored to the SSD.