My problem:
I recently purchased a 125Gb SSD hard drive (samsung, solid state drive, 830 series, SATA 6Gb/s) and I am having trouble "ghosting" or "cloning" my old hard drive (918Gb, only 103 Gb of which are in use). I have heard that 'Norton Ghost' can do this seamlessly. -to be clear, i want the operating system, all programs, all files, literally a 'clone' of my old hard drive imprinted on my new SSD drive-
As I cannot find any reliable freeware to do this, and I have been a norton customer in the past, I am going to get Norton 'ghost' if I can get verification that it will do what i want it to do.
My question:
Can norton ghost do what I need it to do? I understand that I need to have both hard drives CONNECTED to the computer at the same time to be able to clone the old one onto the new one, am i able to use the cables leading to my CD-drive since they are the same shape as the cables leading into the hard drive? Can I have one hard drive attatched normally, and the next attatched to the disk drive cables and do the clone that way?
My Details:
My computer is an HD, I run windows 7 home premium 64 bit. I tried to boot the new SSD normally with my windows 7 disk, and I can't get it to work due to the network driver not being present, which prevents me from getting onto the internet. Since I have done this, will I have to format the SSD before I can make a clone of my old hard drive on it?
I never knew upgrading my hard drive would be such a pain in the butt.
If you cannot help me with my main question, do you know where I would be able to find the drivers required to start windows 7 online? free if possible, but I will pay for them if i have to. The network driver is the main thing I need, I should be able to just update the rest online once my computer recognizes that it has internet.