- Jan 1, 2012
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I have a Windows 7 64-bit with the OS on two Crucial 64G SSDs. I want to transfer the OS drive to a single 250G Samsung SSD. I was unable to do this using Windows Recovery feature because it does not recognize the new SSD; apparently no AHCI drivers on the recovery disk and I couldn't figure out how to add them during the process. Any help would be appreciated but I am trying to avoid re-installing windows and all my programs.
** UPDATE
I ended up being able to use the Samsung migration software that came with the new drive. I had one of those "SATA/IDE to USB" kits that let you hook a bare drive up to USB and then the Samsung software was able to clone the C: drive to the new SSD. When I connected the new drive to SATA Port 2, it showed up as a single drive in the RAID BIOS and booted ok. My mobo (ASUS M4A87TD EVO) has a single setting for SATA ports 1-4, either RAID or IDE and since I have another data RAID array on ports 3+4 I couldn't change that. I suppose I could have put the new SSD on port 5 or 6 but I have two optical drives on those ports and wasn't sure what would happen if I moved one of them to the RAID ports. One annoying thing is that the Samsung optimization software won't recognize the drive through the controller so I'm probably not getting the performance I'd like. Sometimes I think it would be easier to just buy a system and let someone else figure out the config but those prices are too d**m high!
Thanks for your answers and suggestions.
** UPDATE
I ended up being able to use the Samsung migration software that came with the new drive. I had one of those "SATA/IDE to USB" kits that let you hook a bare drive up to USB and then the Samsung software was able to clone the C: drive to the new SSD. When I connected the new drive to SATA Port 2, it showed up as a single drive in the RAID BIOS and booted ok. My mobo (ASUS M4A87TD EVO) has a single setting for SATA ports 1-4, either RAID or IDE and since I have another data RAID array on ports 3+4 I couldn't change that. I suppose I could have put the new SSD on port 5 or 6 but I have two optical drives on those ports and wasn't sure what would happen if I moved one of them to the RAID ports. One annoying thing is that the Samsung optimization software won't recognize the drive through the controller so I'm probably not getting the performance I'd like. Sometimes I think it would be easier to just buy a system and let someone else figure out the config but those prices are too d**m high!
Thanks for your answers and suggestions.
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