OK, I got myself into some trouble.
I've got 2 physical SATA drives, a 750GB and 1TB drive.
The 750GB is the boot drive (it is a Dell and has it's Recovery and utility partitions) and I have C: and D: as well as a K: on it. The 1TB drive is L:.
The C: is 175GB's in size with only 60GB's or so used.
I installed an SSD of 115GB's. I want to move the present C: to it (the SSD) and make the SSD C: followed by the first drive and then the second. I figure once I get up (Windows 7 64 bit Home Prem.) I can then move the old C: to a letter like X: and my other drives on the next boot will be the correct letters.
It didn't happen at all once I used Drive Copy after the SSD was installed. Ghost saw it was unallocated space, make it N: (I have a flash drive used for ReadyBoost at M:) and then copied the drive over. I use the Wizard and set it to be bootable and copy the MBR (was this a mistake since I had only 1 partition on the SSD?).
After the re-boot drive letters were messed up some, but I was still booting off of the OLD C:. It stayed ACTIVE?
DISKPART output :
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DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
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Disk 0 Online 698 GB 1024 KB
Disk 1 Online 931 GB 0 B
Disk 2 Online 107 GB 0 B
Disk 3 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 4 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 5 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 6 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 7 Online 7663 MB 0 B
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Disk 0 is C:, D:, and K:.
Disk 1 is L:.
Disk 2 is G: and the SSD drive.
DISKPART Volume info :
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DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
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Volume 0 E DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 F DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 2 D RECOVERY NTFS Partition 15 GB Healthy
Volume 3 C OS NTFS Partition 171 GB Healthy System
Volume 4 K Drive_K NTFS Partition 511 GB Healthy
Volume 5 L Drive_L NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy Pagefile
Volume 6 G OS NTFS Partition 107 GB Healthy
Volume 7 H Removable 0 B No Media
Volume 8 I Removable 0 B No Media
Volume 9 J Removable 0 B No Media
Volume 10 M Removable 0 B No Media
Volume 11 N FAT32 Removable 7655 MB Healthy
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I've tried moving the drive order in BIOS but it doesn't seem to matter, well, I can't boot the SSD when it is selected to be the boot drive. Windows says it isn't genuine?
Partition info for Disk 0
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DISKPART> select disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
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Partition 1 OEM 70 MB 31 KB
Partition 2 Primary 15 GB 71 MB
Partition 3 Primary 171 GB 15 GB
Partition 0 Extended 511 GB 186 GB
Partition 4 Logical 511 GB 186 GB
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Partition 3 is C:, 2 is D:, and 4 is K:.
Is the problem that I just want to clone over my present C: drive?
I'm sort of at a loss here? Can I just in DISKPART select disk 2 and Partition 1 and the ACTIVE and I'm all set?
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DISKPART> select disk 2
Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
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Partition 1 Primary 107 GB 1024 KB
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I'm sure others have done this, but I'm having my troubles here?
Irv S.