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Hello I recently purchased a Crucial BX200 240gb SSD. I've been wanting to move windows 7 over but don't know how. With my SSD I also got a program called Acronics True Image HD 2015. It says I can clone the disc. I have tried it and I get either the automatic or Manual option. Any idea on how to only move Windows 7 without having to do a fresh reinstall?

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You can clone drives. But id still recommend a fresh install.

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Hello I recently purchased a Crucial BX200 240gb SSD. I've been wanting to move windows 7 over but don't know how. With my SSD I also got a program called Acronics True Image HD 2015. It says I can clone the disc. I have tried it and I get either the automatic or Manual option. Any idea on how to only move Windows 7 without having to do a fresh reinstall?

If you do a fresh reinstall, you will not need a new key (windows knows it is the same PC because of the motherboard, so the same key will work).

 

Other than that, there are ways to clone the drive, but a reinstall is the best option

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10 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

Well, with an i7, GTX 1080, Full tower and flashy lights, it can obviously only be for one thing:

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If you do a fresh reinstall, you will not need a new key (windows knows it is the same PC because of the motherboard, so the same key will work).

 

Other than that, there are ways to clone the drive, but a reinstall is the best option

so fresh reinstall means that i need to redownload all of my Steam Games and Such? 

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you should do a clean install now, otherwise you will likely have issues in the future and then be forced to do a clean install to get things working again

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so fresh reinstall means that i need to redownload all of my Steam Games and Such? 

yes and all of the other programs on the laptop that aren't a part of windows.

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so fresh reinstall means that i need to redownload all of my Steam Games and Such? 

Well, your steam games can be placed on a separate drive. 

 

you can in theory boot off the SSD and leave the HDD as is, install steam on the SSD and have it use the library from the HDD

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Well, with an i7, GTX 1080, Full tower and flashy lights, it can obviously only be for one thing:

Solitaire. 

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SO should I even back up anything? I also have microsoft office, but I don't remember they Key.

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I would have assumed Crucial would have included some sort of cloning software, such as Acronis True Image.

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I would have assumed Crucial would have included some sort of cloning software, such as Acronis True Image.

they did

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SO should I even back up anything? I also have microsoft office, but I don't remember they Key.

 

There are programs to help find your Office CD-Key.

 

 

so fresh reinstall means that i need to redownload all of my Steam Games and Such? 

 

You will lose all installed software yes. If youre worried about steam games, back them up in steam onto another drive.

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Clone that sucker and boot it up.  I can't see it being that difficult.  If you're not happy afterwards, put a fresh Windows install on the SSD and then use the old hard drive as a secondary drive.  I don't use Steam, but I doubt it'd be difficult to copy the games over.

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Acronis will clone the entire hard drive.  An exact copy. 

 

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Acronis will clone the entire hard drive.  An exact copy. 

 

My HDD has 700gb in use out of 1tb and my SSD only holds 240gb. Would i just need to exclude games and other files which are not windows related?

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Well, a typical Windows install, even after a few years usage, should be less than 50gb in size.  I'm not really sure how Acronis handles cloning a larger drive to a smaller one.  Obviously, you can't stick 700gb into 240gb, but perhaps you could move all those games to another location and minimizing your current drive's contents as much as possible.

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There are programs to help find your Office CD-Key.

 

 

 

You will lose all installed software yes. If youre worried about steam games, back them up in steam onto another drive.

Alright so I cloned it and it is all good, DO I have to delete all the data on my HDD or what? I plan to keep some steam games there.

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Well, your steam games can be placed on a separate drive. 

 

you can in theory boot off the SSD and leave the HDD as is, install steam on the SSD and have it use the library from the HDD

I cloned it over to an ssd and it was a success, Is it fine if I delete all of the data on my HDD? 

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