OK, I will try to keep this short but include the necessary information.
I currently have a matched pair of 1 TB hard drives running as a mirrored RAID using the Intel Rapid Storage Technology with Option ROM 12.0.01783 that is on the motherboard. There is just 250 GB on the current drive C: boot RAID.
I want to move the system to a new 500 GB SSD. I am wanting to make the SSD the boot drive and move any non-necessary files to the RAID drives used as a storage space.
So far no cloning program will move that boot partition to the SSD.
Do any of you know of a way to make the SSD the boot drive without re-installing Win 7 from scratch and re-installing all the programs? I really want to avoid that.
I have the full version of Acroness that is a year old and that did not work. I tried the utility that came with the SSD and it fails.
One suggestion was to backup the entire hard drive and verify the backup is good. Do a fresh install of Windows on the SSD and then restore the backup. That does not seem like it will work. I am hoping the bran trust has a answer. I will buy a clone program if it will do the job.
I want to move the boot partition to make the system much faster.