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I own a Dell XPS which has pre installed OEM Win 7 Home premium, I recently Upgraded to 256 gb SSD. I tried to reinstall OEM windows 7with the recovery disk on to my new SSD but windows installation doesn't start with an error " 465 Gb drive is needed to install windows". I tried to clone my drive partition to SSD but it wont boot up. Please through in some light if some one has solved the same issue

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Hi

you did not say which brand of SSD or the clone program

most SSD manufacturers provide a program to migrate from Hard disk to SSD
look on their web site (Often Acronis True Image)

The Windows 7 partition would be preceded by either a very small hidden boot partition or a Dell Recovery Partition or both, If you did not clone these you would expect problems

regards

Mike Barnes
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Hi

you did not say which brand of SSD or the clone program

most SSD manufacturers provide a program to migrate from Hard disk to SSD
look on their web site (Often Acronis True Image)

The Windows 7 partition would be preceded by either a very small hidden boot partition or a Dell Recovery Partition or both, If you did not clone these you would expect problems

regards

Mike Barnes
 
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