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[Brian_K]

Dale, when you restore the image to unallocated space on your SSD look at Message #94 in the Elder thread but use the Ghost Options from Message #20 in this thread. When the restore has completed, shutdown, remove the old HD and plug the SSD into SATA port 0 on the motherboard. The SSD should be the only drive in the computer. Power on and hopefully Win7 will boot.

[DaleHolden · Accepted solution]

Hi Brian I have no broadband today so this is from my 3G I didn't read your last comment. When I rebooted got some other error so I used win 7 disc to repair and you will never guess it works. I have re connected the other Hdd without any issue. I did use my other backup drive. Now the next few questions I want to delete the other win 7 on my old hdd. I was just going to return that to a 1 tb hdd. If I delete the old win 7 will it just expand the other partition automatically? Also next nervous bit now I hav e the sdd booting I want to upgrade my pc,s MOB to make use of the 6 gb sata. Is this going to create any issues for the sdd ?...

[Brian_K]

Dale,

Nice  work. Does the SSD feel fast?

If you want to delete the old Win7, use BIBM. Or Disk Management. You will then have 494 GiB of unallocated space preceding Dales Backup. You have two choices. Create a new primary partition in the unallocated space or slide the Dales partition to the front of the HD and then resize Dales partition. The former is easier but if you want to do the latter I can provide instructions.

Instead of replacing the MB you could use a SATA3 PCI card. Much easier. If you replace the MB you could have driver issues, but unlikely and easily fixed.

Glad you persevered with image/restore?

[DaleHolden]

Hi Brian

Well I have a new MON and new i7 Intel Chip with 16 ram to put in so it’s a must ????. Why will I have sdd driver issues ???

[Brian_K]

Just a pessimistic worst case scenario. You will probably be 100% fine. Even if you put your SSD in my computer we could make it work.

[DaleHolden]

My thought were it might have driver issues re board and stuff but ssd should be fine I would have thought.

[Brian_K]

Especially with Win7, you should be fine. The main problem with putting HDs onto a new MB is OS booting but we mainly saw that with WinXP. Easily fixable.

Once the OS boots you can install chipset drivers.

[DaleHolden]

You ganna be about for the next few hours going to do it now ??

[Brian_K]

I'll be here. Have to wait up until my wife arrives home in 4 hours.

[DaleHolden]

Hi everything went to plan few driver issues but booted in no probs. I have one big issue I have 2 Nividia 8800 GT to run 3 monitiors . One of them is not being seen but if I click detect I get a weird message from Windows see here http://i.imgur.com/MVYRR.png.

My MOB is a Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 it should run 2 GC fine on the 2 PCI slots????