Installed Crucial 128 GIG MSATA Drive want to transfer data

[chipman]

Please help from the experts is needed. I Installed Crucial 128 GIG MSATA Drive want to transfer data from the 500 gig drive to the MSATA and then make it the bootable drive. I tried clone disk but was unable to get it to boot so I formated the MSATA again and now I just want to transfer the restore partition and then the os which is working fine on the 500 gig. This way I will always have a dual backup and take advantage of the faster MSATA as the bootable drive. Could someone please advise me on how the best way to do this would be. Thank you so much for any help in this. BTW win 7 home premium install.

Thanks again Chipman

[chipman]

Would I be better off doing a partition to partition image I really want to keep all my installed programs and be able to run them off the Msata drive is this possible or should I just do a system restore to the Msata drive and then reinstall all my programs. Thanks for any advice I am desperate for direction. Thanks again.

Chipman

[Neil]

My experience has been that making a backup image of the installed system to an external drive, and then restoring that image to the new drive, works better than trying to clone the entire drive. Especially is this true when the original drive has multiple partitions. Just be sure to back-up/restore the MBR along with the partition.

It's fairly easy to do with Acronis. Probably not much different with other back-up apps, but ATI is all I've ever used.

... should I just do a system restore to the Msata drive and then reinstall all my programs.

This would be the best approach.

[jayton4]

In order to clone the 500GB drive to the 128GB mSATA SSD, you would have to shrink the 500GB partition to less than the 128GB size before you do anything else.

Skip the headaches and do the system restore. The speeds will be better that way.