I need your help guys.. i've been all over the net trying different methods to clone my Windows 7 to SSD and failed repeatedly.
Here's my setup , I have an HP Envy 14 with a 500GB HDD. I bought an SSD to speed things up . I have 2 OS (dual boot) ,
Win7 & win 8 , on which Win8 is the default OS (as per easyBCD info). I only want to clone the Win7 part of the OS.
(Win7 - Drive C) , (Win8 - Drive F) , and Recovery on Drive D.
I've tried these t hings so far
After defragging and backup)
1.while on Win7 , i created an image copy , but strangely thought,after the process is complete it says the image copy is Win8
I used EaseUs to Do Backup and cloned Drive C
Swapped the HDD with the SSD , and got a message could not find a boot drive
2. Since I failed on first try , I formatted the SSD , and opt for a fresh install instead.
-I downloaded the Win7 ISO , swapped the newly formatted SSD(empty)
-booted on the Win7 installer , and have the OS installed on the SSD.
- I thought I was done until I noticed HP assigned keys are not working , USB drivers are not working , I could not toggle wifi. The reason may be the missing drivers(bloatware from the HP recovery disk - since I did not copy that one)
3. After the attempts , I formatted the SSD . I read somewhere to use the HP recovery instead.
- I cloned the HP recovery drive from my HDD to the SSD
- Swapped the HDD with the SSD
- Started my Laptop , and Boot drive not found...(even after pressing F11)
can you tell me a better way to do this? Or if someone could point out what I did wrong , or maybe missed?
I'd Really appreciate your help .. This has been bugging me for the past days..
Here's my setup , I have an HP Envy 14 with a 500GB HDD. I bought an SSD to speed things up . I have 2 OS (dual boot) ,
Win7 & win 8 , on which Win8 is the default OS (as per easyBCD info). I only want to clone the Win7 part of the OS.
(Win7 - Drive C) , (Win8 - Drive F) , and Recovery on Drive D.
I've tried these t hings so far
1.while on Win7 , i created an image copy , but strangely thought,after the process is complete it says the image copy is Win8
I used EaseUs to Do Backup and cloned Drive C
Swapped the HDD with the SSD , and got a message could not find a boot drive
2. Since I failed on first try , I formatted the SSD , and opt for a fresh install instead.
-I downloaded the Win7 ISO , swapped the newly formatted SSD(empty)
-booted on the Win7 installer , and have the OS installed on the SSD.
- I thought I was done until I noticed HP assigned keys are not working , USB drivers are not working , I could not toggle wifi. The reason may be the missing drivers(bloatware from the HP recovery disk - since I did not copy that one)
3. After the attempts , I formatted the SSD . I read somewhere to use the HP recovery instead.
- I cloned the HP recovery drive from my HDD to the SSD
- Swapped the HDD with the SSD
- Started my Laptop , and Boot drive not found...(even after pressing F11)
can you tell me a better way to do this? Or if someone could point out what I did wrong , or maybe missed?
I'd Really appreciate your help .. This has been bugging me for the past days..
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 8