Solved Win7 & Win 8 HDs. SWAP OS's across drives

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I have Windows 7 on a 120 Gig SSD.
I have Win8 on a 150 Gig HDD.

I want to swap the OS's, putting 8 on the SSD, and 7 on the HDD.

So far, I've made Ghost images of both drives, and the system reserved partitions.

I have a boot-able thumbdrive, and multiple ways to make the ghost images available [External HD, Server, large Thumbdrives] so restoring them will not be an issue.

The largest OS uese 89 Gigs, so that is not an issue, and I will redo several installs of software, but that's not important right now.

Are there ANY concerns with doing such a swap?

Suggestions to make it easier?

I'd rather not, but I can change the connections of the SATA cables if I HAD to! The BIOS is pretty advanced, so I don't expect that to be an issue.
 

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Hi there.

Can't see what any problem is here

Just in the BIOS change either the Disk priority to boot the OS you would prefer or simply at boot time use the BIOS prompt boot menu and choose which disk you want to boot (or external device !!).

You can install your OS'es wherever you like -- personally I'd do it in such a way that each OS doesn't know about the other one so you won't see the other OS'es on the boot menu when you start up the OS.

Note though be careful if you are "mixing" UEFI and Non UEFI systems -- provided PROTECTED BOOT is disabled and legacy boot checked there isn't a problem in mixing these -that's why I like having the OS'es totally on separate disks each unaware of the others existence.

Depends of course on how you like to operate your machine. You could also consider having a PRIMARY OS and then keeping the other one as a Virtual machine --saves all the hoo ha about multiple / dual boot -- W7 can be "Moved" to a new machine --in this case your VM and re-activated usually without a problem unless it was an OEM copy.

Cheers
jimbo
 

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Winders 8 was added later, not intending it to be considered the primary OS, that has now changed, mostly because MS is only making drivers that REALLY use my CPU available for Windows 8 over Windows 7. Originally, Windows 8 was accessible only through BIOS, but that has changed with time passing.

That has caused the need [desire?] to move Windows 8 over to the SSD.

Mixing? No. Those OS's were always on separate HDs, and the installs were done without the other OS even on the system [SSD was disconnected for the Windows 8 install]

UEFI? Doesn't Win7[x64 Ult] and Win8[x64 Pro] both have UEFI?

This is a simple family use machine. I'm moving the entire contents of each drive to the other.
 

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    AMD FX-8150
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    16 Gigs
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Winders 8 was added later, not intending it to be considered the primary OS, that has now changed, mostly because MS is only making drivers that REALLY use my CPU available for Windows 8 over Windows 7. Originally, Windows 8 was accessible only through BIOS, but that has changed with time passing.

That has caused the need [desire?] to move Windows 8 over to the SSD.

Mixing? No. Those OS's were always on separate HDs, and the installs were done without the other OS even on the system [SSD was disconnected for the Windows 8 install]

UEFI? Doesn't Win7[x64 Ult] and Win8[x64 Pro] both have UEFI?

This is a simple family use machine. I'm moving the entire contents of each drive to the other.

You would have to look in Disk Management to verify that. Win 7 SP1 does support UEFI, However none of my win 7 machines are set up UEFI they are MBR. Where as win 8 can be set up MBR is usually sets up as UEFI GPT
once you have full disk Images of both drives I would use Diskpart and Clean each disk that way if you have a mixed system the images will Restore.
 

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Winders 8 was added later, not intending it to be considered the primary OS, that has now changed, mostly because MS is only making drivers that REALLY use my CPU available for Windows 8 over Windows 7. Originally, Windows 8 was accessible only through BIOS, but that has changed with time passing.

That has caused the need [desire?] to move Windows 8 over to the SSD.

Mixing? No. Those OS's were always on separate HDs, and the installs were done without the other OS even on the system [SSD was disconnected for the Windows 8 install]

UEFI? Doesn't Win7[x64 Ult] and Win8[x64 Pro] both have UEFI?

This is a simple family use machine. I'm moving the entire contents of each drive to the other.

You would have to look in Disk Management to verify that. Win 7 SP1 does support UEFI, However none of my win 7 machines are set up UEFI they are MBR. Where as win 8 can be set up MBR is usually sets up as UEFI GPT
once you have full disk Images of both drives I would use Diskpart and Clean each disk that way if you have a mixed system the images will Restore.

So Ghost image the entire drive, not the partitions?
 

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    AMD FX-8150
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    Asus
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    16 Gigs
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Yes I would Image the whole drive. You can use Clonezilla to do that. You would just need a Network drive to put it onto. I use my Lenovo ix2 as a NFS share for backing up our computers, when I make any major changes to the OS. Or at least try every month to make a image backup.

Todo Home will also work in your case.
 

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Winders 8 was added later, not intending it to be considered the primary OS, that has now changed, mostly because MS is only making drivers that REALLY use my CPU available for Windows 8 over Windows 7. Originally, Windows 8 was accessible only through BIOS, but that has changed with time passing.

That has caused the need [desire?] to move Windows 8 over to the SSD.

Mixing? No. Those OS's were always on separate HDs, and the installs were done without the other OS even on the system [SSD was disconnected for the Windows 8 install]

UEFI? Doesn't Win7[x64 Ult] and Win8[x64 Pro] both have UEFI?

This is a simple family use machine. I'm moving the entire contents of each drive to the other.

You would have to look in Disk Management to verify that. Win 7 SP1 does support UEFI, However none of my win 7 machines are set up UEFI they are MBR. Where as win 8 can be set up MBR is usually sets up as UEFI GPT
once you have full disk Images of both drives I would use Diskpart and Clean each disk that way if you have a mixed system the images will Restore.

So Ghost image the entire drive, not the partitions?

If you have any UEFI GPT disk Ghost will not be able to create a booting OS. If everything is BIOS MBR yes ghost the whole disk.
If your Win 8 disk is GPT then get Macrium Reflect Free Version, there are other Imaging programs that will create bootable GPT disk Ghost is not one of them I don't think Symantec has any intention of upgrading to be able to restore a GPT disk.
 

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You would have to look in Disk Management to verify that. Win 7 SP1 does support UEFI, However none of my win 7 machines are set up UEFI they are MBR. Where as win 8 can be set up MBR is usually sets up as UEFI GPT
once you have full disk Images of both drives I would use Diskpart and Clean each disk that way if you have a mixed system the images will Restore.

So Ghost image the entire drive, not the partitions?

If you have any UEFI GPT disk Ghost will not be able to create a booting OS. If everything is BIOS MBR yes ghost the whole disk.
If your Win 8 disk is GPT then get Macrium Reflect Free Version, there are other Imaging programs that will create bootable GPT disk Ghost is not one of them I don't think Symantec has any intention of upgrading to be able to restore a GPT disk.

Is there a freeware version [A Ghost cloan] that does work?

If I manage the drives, it appears that both drives are simply NTFS. GPT, isn't that for drives over 2TBs? The larger drives go on the server, the smaller drives are simply to hold the OS and things that cannot be installed on the server itself...
 

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    CPU
    AMD FX-8150
    Motherboard
    Asus
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    16 Gigs
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So Ghost image the entire drive, not the partitions?

If you have any UEFI GPT disk Ghost will not be able to create a booting OS. If everything is BIOS MBR yes ghost the whole disk.
If your Win 8 disk is GPT then get Macrium Reflect Free Version, there are other Imaging programs that will create bootable GPT disk Ghost is not one of them I don't think Symantec has any intention of upgrading to be able to restore a GPT disk.

Is there a freeware version [A Ghost cloan] that does work?

If I manage the drives, it appears that both drives are simply NTFS. GPT, isn't that for drives over 2TBs? The larger drives go on the server, the smaller drives are simply to hold the OS and things that cannot be installed on the server itself...

Generally window 8 installs UEFI GPT, However it can run in MBR BIOS, All the new computers are UEFI have been since at least 2012 And Yes Macrium Reflect will work with any configuration and its free. You only need the paid version for file backup and Deploy to different hardware.
 

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    16 GB Hyundai HTM315156CFR8C-PB PC3-12800
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If you have any UEFI GPT disk Ghost will not be able to create a booting OS. If everything is BIOS MBR yes ghost the whole disk.
If your Win 8 disk is GPT then get Macrium Reflect Free Version, there are other Imaging programs that will create bootable GPT disk Ghost is not one of them I don't think Symantec has any intention of upgrading to be able to restore a GPT disk.

Is there a freeware version [A Ghost cloan] that does work?

If I manage the drives, it appears that both drives are simply NTFS. GPT, isn't that for drives over 2TBs? The larger drives go on the server, the smaller drives are simply to hold the OS and things that cannot be installed on the server itself...

Generally window 8 installs UEFI GPT, However it can run in MBR BIOS, All the new computers are UEFI have been since at least 2012 And Yes Macrium Reflect will work with any configuration and its free. You only need the paid version for file backup and Deploy to different hardware.

Different hardware? Can you elaborate? I make make images on a single machine, and restore with them on a USB-to-SATA adapter. If on the same machine, is that the same hardware? [I'm about to overhaul my server...]
 

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    16 Gigs
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Sorry for butting in here but I think this is a simple process to accomplish what you want done:
  1. With Windows 7 running,
    download Macrium Reflect Free - CNET Download.com
  2. Install Macrium and use a USB Stick to create a rescue disk. (Support both Legacy & UEFI)
  3. Connect an external HD and use Macrium to make a backup image of the whole disk containing your Windows 8 (HD), make sure you verify the image after doing the backup.
  4. With Macrium still running, do a disk clone of your Windows 7 (SSD) as source to Windows 8 (HD) as destination.
  5. Set the BIOS to boot from your USB Rescue disk and restore the image from the external HD to the SSD.

NOTE: Be careful to take notes of the Hard Disk and the SSD, you can usually tell by the size, one is 120GB and the other is 150GB. Also, once done you might want to open disk management and extend the HD to full 150GB.

Here's a screen shot:

2014-05-17_20-02-31.jpg
 
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No need to apologize. I like what you are saying there. Won't try it until Tuesday at soonest because everybody is home for the weekend...
 

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    Asus
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    16 Gigs
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Do I need to CONCERN myself with the size of the system reserved partitions? How accurate must I hold the sizes to? Are they based on how big the drive was/is when the OS was installed? [Win8 is much larger than Win7]
 

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No need to concern with the reserved partitions ? This is strictly a swap so if Windows 8 reserved partition is 350MB then it will be 350MB and for Windows 7, it is 100MB. Macrium will take care of that, you need not to adjust anything.
 
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I did it with Ghost. Now Win8.1 is on the SSD, and all is well.

Win7 won't boot. I need to get the install disk and do a repair...
 

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    AMD FX-8150
    Motherboard
    Asus
    Memory
    16 Gigs
    Graphics Card(s)
    Internal
    Sound Card
    Internal
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    19" & 32"
    Screen Resolution
    1440 x 900, and ??? [1080p?]
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No need to concern with the reserved partitions ? This is strictly a swap so if Windows 8 reserved partition is 350MB then it will be 350MB and for Windows 7, it is 100MB. Macrium will take care of that, you need not to adjust anything.

By concern, I was worried about holding it to the EXACT size? I was worried about being off by a cluster and that becoming an issue. When I put Win8.1 on the SSD, the OS partition got resized, and it didn't change the reserved. I had to manually resize the two partitions for Win7, and it won't work. I wonder if I missed a cluster, or if it's something else.
 

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    Motherboard
    Asus
    Memory
    16 Gigs
    Graphics Card(s)
    Internal
    Sound Card
    Internal
    Monitor(s) Displays
    19" & 32"
    Screen Resolution
    1440 x 900, and ??? [1080p?]
    Hard Drives
    SSD, 2 Laptop HDs, Server with ~5TBs
    PSU
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Can you post a screen shot of the disks from disk management.
Also, if you have both disks installed in your PC boot boot them separately, you'll need to get into the BIOS and change the boot order or if your MB has a boot menu by using the function key. If you want to dual boot, ie. you'll get a boot menu which you can select which want to boot then there's a simple command to set them up.
 

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    MSI-Z97
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    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
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    Dual HP-W2408
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    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
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    Antec 850W
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    Danger Den H20
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The Windows 7 install disk solved the problem with the boot issue, but it added "(recovered)" or "(repaired)" or something like that. I would like to change it to "x64" or just get rid of that part... The computer boots to the SSD, and I get a Windows boot manager to pick which one to use...
 

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    AMD FX-8150
    Motherboard
    Asus
    Memory
    16 Gigs
    Graphics Card(s)
    Internal
    Sound Card
    Internal
    Monitor(s) Displays
    19" & 32"
    Screen Resolution
    1440 x 900, and ??? [1080p?]
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    SSD, 2 Laptop HDs, Server with ~5TBs
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Boot menu works, but it's text, not the GUI.

Don't know how to turn it on...
 

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    Custom [Compaq Presario CASE]
    CPU
    AMD FX-8150
    Motherboard
    Asus
    Memory
    16 Gigs
    Graphics Card(s)
    Internal
    Sound Card
    Internal
    Monitor(s) Displays
    19" & 32"
    Screen Resolution
    1440 x 900, and ??? [1080p?]
    Hard Drives
    SSD, 2 Laptop HDs, Server with ~5TBs
    PSU
    Internal
    Case
    Compaq
    Cooling
    Air
    Keyboard
    Wireless/Wireless
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    Wireless/Wireless
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    Security Essentials
Boot menu works, but it's text, not the GUI.

Don't know how to turn it on...
It is because you configure the dual boot from Windows 7 boot manager, you need to configure from Windows 8 then you'll get the GUI.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brewed
    CPU
    I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
    Motherboard
    MSI-Z97
    Memory
    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual HP-W2408
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200
    Hard Drives
    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
    PSU
    Antec 850W
    Case
    Antec 1200
    Cooling
    Danger Den H20
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance Mouse MX
    Internet Speed
    35/12mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
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