Once I came to visit my friends and I was asked to transfer Windows 8.1 along with hidden partitions from hard disk laptop to solid state SSD drive... But friends had to me several conditions:
1. After transferring to SSD with covered partitions with factory settings should remain functional.
2. With Windows 8.1 activation should not fly off.
Friends did not have the Internet, Acronis programs True Image and Paragon Home Expert Advisor was not foreseen either. Yes, and I had nothing with me, except for a clean 32 GB flash drive, but after an hour everything was ready.
Hello friends. I have written several articles on the topic of transferring Windows 7, 8, 8.1 from laptop hard drive to SSD solid state drive.
Today's article describes the easiest way, you don't even have to download and install any programs on your laptop. Truly they say that all ingenious is simple. In the next articles, everything will be a little more complicated.
- Note: read the following articles on this topic - .
- If you cannot transfer Windows 7, 8, 8.1 along with hidden partitions from a laptop hard drive to an SSD, then it's easy.
- What to do if, after transferring Windows 8.1 from a regular hard drive to an SSD, the factory reset program stops working on a laptop, or
- If you are interested in the article, visit the special section where you can find from one storage device to another.
In a nutshell, what includes such a transfer, suitable even for a novice user. We will use the built-in the laptop manufacturer to restore the factory settings. We will create a recovery flash drive (you will need a clean 16 GB flash drive), or you can create recovery discs (you will need 3 blank DVDs), using a flash drive or disc we will transferWindows 7, 8, 8.1 along with hidden partitions from laptop hard drive to SSD.
- In simple words,In today's article, we will rollback the laptop to factory settings, but rollback not to the hard drive of the laptop, but to the SSD. As a result, nand on our laptop everything will work as before, but noticeably faster.
1. Hidden partitions with factory settings will remain functional.
2. With Windows 8.1 activation will not even fly off.You can return the hard drive from the laptop back at any time, that is, you do not lose anything.
In the next articles, we will use Acronis True Image and Paragon Home Expert for the transfer.
The tricky part of porting Windows to an SSD (120GB or 240GB) is SSD size probably less than the volume of the laptop's hard disk (500 GB or 1 TB), and in addition to running Windows, we need to transfer hidden partitions with factory settings to the SSD, so that the ability to roll back to the factory settings is not disturbed. Is it possible to carry out such a transfer? Yes, it is possible!
What prompted me to write these articles? Of course, your numerous requests to describe the transfer of the entire contents of a laptop hard drive to an SSD. At first I had the idea to go the easy way - to find a detailed article on this topic on the Internet and post a link to it on my website, but after wandering through various forums, I found only "raw" reflections on this topic that could lead an inexperienced user to a dead end.
You may ask - What to do with a simple laptop hard drive?
After transferring to a solid state drive, the operating room Windows system 7 or Windows 8.1 will work fine, and the program to reset the laptop to factory settings will also work, in short, everything will be the same on your laptop, only instead of a hard disk there will be an SSD solid-state drive. Even if your SSD is 120 GB, then for operating system this is more than enough, but for data storage you can use a laptop hard drive in an external box or a simple portable USB hard drive.
Many attentive users may ask - "What are the hidden partitions on a laptop?"
And the question is asked correctly, if you have decided on such an operation, then you should know everything about the existing partitions on the hard drive of your laptop.
Before starting the transfer, let's find out all the information about the hard drive of my laptop, then go to the "Disk Management" of the operating system and I will explain everything to you.
For example, Windows 8.1 is installed on my laptop. The manufacturer of my laptop is Toshiba, in the properties of the disk you can see the name of the manufacturer of the hard drive, also Toshiba.
Volumes tab. The hard disk has a standard table layout format GPT partitions, you can see this on the Volumes tab. Below you can see the volume of the 700 GB hard drive.
Disk Management window
If you have a different laptop manufacturer, there may be a slight difference that does not affect the overall process of migrating Windows to an SSD.
1. First hidden section without a letter, with a volume of 1.00 GB. Good (OEM section), this is a service section of the laptop manufacturer with a program to roll back to factory settings. The laptop manufacturer specifically creates such a section, in a difficult case, if your operating system does not boot due to your careless actions or because of a virus, then you can roll back the laptop to the state it was at the time of the laptop purchase.
2. Second hidden section, volume 260 MB OK (Encrypted (EFI) system partition), it contains files Windows boot 8.1, also environment files Windows recovery 8.1.
3. The third section has the letter C, 344 GB volume, Windows 8 operating system installed. The C: drive, despite its 344 GB volume, is filled with 80 GB files.
4. The fourth section under the letter (E :), volume 341 GB, with data files: music, movies and so on.
5. The fifth hidden section, without a letter, 10.75 GB, Good (OEM section), this section contains the factory image of the Windows 8 operating system.
Attention: If you have deletedfirst hidden sectionletterless, 1.00 GB andfifth hidden section, which does not have a letter, with a volume of 10.75 GB, then transfer it as described below in a simple way WindowsSSD won't work, and here's why.
For the transfer, I want to use the built-inby the laptop manufacturer, a factory restore program called Recovery Media Creator, which works with hidden partitions, returning the laptop to its factory state... And if you have removed hidden sections, then the programRecovery Media Creator will not work.
Creating a USB flash drive or recovery discs
All laptop manufacturers ship their devices with their own factory restore program. Each manufacturer has a different name for it, but they all work almost identically. For example, in Toshiba laptops, such a program is called Recovery Disc Creator or Recovery Media Creator, the laptop manufacturer Acer calls this utility, for laptops, the program is called Samsung Recovery Solution 5, for laptops, for HP laptops - HP Recovery Manager. All these programs are similar to each other and work according to the same principle. So, no matter what laptop you have, you can safely use this instruction for yourself.
We connect the power adapter to the laptop so that when creating an image of the hard disk, the laptop does not turn off and the process does not interrupt in the middle.
Move the mouse to the lower left corner and click the left button,
The program invites us to createRecovery media for system recovery, that is, we can create recovery DVDs with you, you will need several (3-5) clean DVD disc, the program will ask you to insert three DVDs one by one into the drive and the entire windows image will be recorded on them, by the way, the whole process is described in detail in our article .
Also we can create bootable USB drive recovery, but the flash drive must be large, with a volume of 16-32 GB.
I will choose a USB stick Kingston datatraveler Mini , I have it in a volume of 32 GB (but 16 GB would be enough). 
Carefully, all data on the flash drive will be deleted.
OK. A recovery USB flash drive is being created.
The process of creating a bootable USB drive is complete.
Replacing a laptop hard drive with an SSD solid state drive
Friends, now you need to replace the hard drive in the laptop with a solid-state drive. The replacement should happen without any problems, since the form factor of the laptop hard drive and the SSD solid-state drive are the same - 2.5 inches. We also have several articles on this topic.
We will also consider this issue in this article and there are no difficulties here. Usually on the back of a laptop there is a special compartment for a hard drive and to remove this cover, you just need to unscrew two screws.
The hard drive is attached to the laptop with two more screws, we also unscrew them, then we gently pull on the silicone tab and the hard drive is disconnected.
But on our laptop Toshiba L50 - A - K3K, there is no such compartment, which means you have to completely remove the laptop cover.
We turn the laptop over. First of all, you need to remove the battery from the laptop, but in our case this will not work, since it is also under the cover.
- Important! : The article is given to you for review, if you have never disassembled a laptop, then do it better in service center... Before disassembling the laptop, remove battery, if it is not removable, then disconnect it from the laptop motherboard, you need to do this in any case. When removing the hard disk, do not touch the components located on the motherboard laptop, otherwise the motherboard may fail, and it accounts for 85-90% of the cost of the laptop.
We unscrew all the screws securing the back cover of the laptop (bottom), in my case 14 screws.
We take out the drive
and carefully remove the laptop lid, despite the fact that all the screws are unscrewed, the laptop lid is removed with very light effort, since the lid is attached to the laptop case with the help of plastic clips
Neither latches nor clips can be broken into the latches on the case, because the lid will have to be put back.
Here is our hard drive
it is attached to the laptop case with two screws, unscrew the screws and remember exactly where the laptop hard drive was screwed to the motherboard.
Disconnect the hard drive carefully from the SATA connector.
The laptop hard drive is in a kind of sled, we disconnect them.
Well, then we fix the sled on the SSD solid-state drive. The hard drive form factor of a 2.5 laptop is the same as a solid state drive, and our SSD will fit perfectly in the place of a laptop hard drive.
Our 120GB Kingston HyperX 3K SSD
and connect it to the SATA connector on the laptop motherboard and fasten with two screws.
We put the laptop cover and the floppy drive back, we do it carefully, the clips on the cover should fit into the plastic latches on the case.
We turn on the laptop, press F2 or Del when loading and enter the BIOS, as we see our SSD is perfectly defined in the BIOS, which means you can work with it.
Deploy Windows 8.1 from a recovery stick to an SSD
We connect our Kingston DataTraveler Mini 3.0 32GB recovery flash drive and reboot, when the laptop boots, press F2 and enter the BIOS. If you have a UEFI BIOS, then the option Secure boot set to Disabled.
Do not touch Boot Mode and leave it in the UEFI Boot position,
Then we change the priority of loading to a USB flash drive or just press F12 to enter boot menu laptop, select our USB flash drive and press Enter, the laptop boots from the recovery flash drive.
The program window for restoring the factory settings of the Toshiba Recovery Wizard appears, select the first item and click Next.
We select the first item "Restore the software installed at the factory by default" and click Next.
The recovery process begins
We accept the terms of the license
Use standard parameters
If you have a Microsoft account, then enter its details. If account Microsoft is not, then create a simple local account.
That's all
Windows 8.1 boots and works fine
We enter Disk Management and see ourSSD Kingston HyperX 3K, 120 GB.
Please note that the volume label C: remained the same, but it does not bother us, and if anything, it can be changed.
In the properties of the disk, you can see the name of the hard drive manufacturer
Volumes tab. The hard disk has a standard for the layout of the GPT partition tables.
The volume of the hard disk is 120 GB.
Conclusion
On our laptop, everything works as before, but noticeably faster.
1. Hidden partitions with factory settings are quite workable.
2. C Windows 8.1 activation did not even fly off.
3. You can return the hard drive from the laptop back at any time, that is, you do not lose anything.
The only drawback is that you will have to install all the programs on the laptop, since in fact, in today's article, we rolled the laptop back to factory settings, but rolled it back not to the laptop's hard drive, but to the SSD.
If you bought a new one HDD or a solid-state SSD drive for your computer, it is very likely that there is a great desire to do reinstalling Windows, you do not have drivers and all programs. In this case, you can clone or, otherwise, transfer Windows to another disk, and not only the operating system itself, but also all installed components, programs, etc. A separate instruction for a 10 installed on a GPT disk in a UEFI system:.
In fact, Seagate DiscWizard is full copy the previous program, but it requires at least one Seagate hard drive to run on your computer.
All actions that allow you to move Windows to another disk and completely clone it are similar to Acronis True Image HD Edition (in fact, this is the same program), the interface is the same.
You can download Seagate DiscWizard from the official website https://www.seagate.com/ru/ru/support/downloads/discwizard/
Samsung Data Migration
Samsung Data Migration software is designed specifically for transferring Windows and data to Samsung SSDs from any other drive. So, if you are the owner of such a solid state drive, this is what you need.
The transfer process is performed in a wizard-like manner and consists of several steps. Moreover, in latest versions programs, it is possible not only to completely clone a disk with operating systems and files, but also to selectively transfer data, which may be relevant, given that SSD sizes are still smaller than modern ones hard drives.
Samsung Data Migration program in Russian is available on the official website https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools/
Important: the same utilities for transferring Windows to another disk are available from other manufacturers of SSD and HDD. Usually, from can be found by asking a query consisting of the brand and the phrase "Data Migration", so you will find, for example, Intel Data Migration Tool and similar programs for other brands of discs.How to Transfer Windows from HDD to SSD (or Other HDD) in Aomei Partition Assistant Standard Edition
Another free program, also in Russian, that allows you to conveniently transfer an operating system from a hard drive to a solid-state drive or to a new HDD - Aomei Partition Assistant Standard Edition.
Note: this way works only for Windows 10, 8 and 7 installed on MBR disk on computers with BIOS (or UEFI and Legacy boot), when trying to transfer OS from GPT disk, the program reports that it cannot do this (perhaps a simple copying of disks in Aomei will work here, but it was not possible to experiment - failures when restarting to perform the operation, despite disabled Secure Boot and checking digital signature drivers).
The steps for copying the system to another disk are simple and, I think, will be clear even for a novice user:
If everything goes well, then upon completion you will receive a copy of the system that can be booted from your new SSD or hard drive.
You can download Aomei Partition Assistant Standard Edition for free from the official website https://www.disk-partition.com/free-partition-manager.html
Transfer Windows 10, 8 and Windows 7 to another drive in Minitool Partition Wizard Bootable
Minitool Partition Wizard free, along with the Aomei Partition Assistant Standard, I would classify as one of the best free software to work with disks and partitions. One of the advantages of the Minitool product is the availability of a fully functional bootable ISO image Partition Wizard on the official site (free Aomei allows you to create a demo image with important functions disabled).
By writing this image to a disk or flash drive (for this, the developers recommend using Rufus) and booting your computer from it, you can transfer Windows or another system to another hard drive or SSD, and in in this case we will not be hindered by possible limitations of the OS, since it is not running.
Note: I tested the cloning of the system to another disk in Minitool Partition Wizard Free only without EFI boot and only on MBR disks (transferred to Windows 10), I can’t vouch for performance in EFI / GPT systems (I could not get the program to work in this mode, despite disabled Secure Boot, but it looks like this is a bug of my specific hardware).
The process of transferring the system to another disk consists of the following steps:
When finished, you can close the Minitool Partition Wizard, restart your computer and set to boot from the new disk to which the system was migrated: in my test (as I mentioned, BIOS + MBR, Windows 10) everything went well and the system booted as if what has not happened with the disconnected source disk.
You can download a free bootable image of Minitool Partition Wizard Free from the official website https://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html
Macrium Reflect
The free Macrium Reflect program allows you to clone entire disks (both hard and SSD) or individual partitions, regardless of what brand your disk is. In addition, you can create an image of a separate disk partition (including with Windows) and later use it for system recovery. It also supports the creation of bootable recovery discs on Windows based PE.
After starting the program, in the main window you will see a list of connected hard drives and SSDs. Check the disk that contains the operating system and click “Clone this disk”.
At the next stage, in the "Source" item, the source hard drive will already be selected, and in the "Destination" item, you will need to indicate the one to which you want to transfer the data. Also, you can select only individual partitions on the disk for copying. Everything else happens automatically and is not difficult even for a novice user.
Official download site: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
Additional Information
After you have transferred Windows and files, do not forget to either put the boot from the new disk in the BIOS or disconnect the old disk from the computer.
Once I came to visit my friends and I was asked to transfer Windows 8.1 along with hidden partitions from a laptop hard drive to an SSD solid-state drive. But friends had to me several conditions:
1. After transferring to SSD with covered partitions with factory settings should remain functional.
2. With Windows 8.1 activation should not fly off.
Friends did not have the Internet, Acronis True Image and Paragon Home Expert were not expected either. Yes, and I had nothing with me, except for a clean 32 GB flash drive, but after an hour everything was ready.
Hello friends. I have written several articles on the topic of transferring Windows 7, 8, 8.1 from laptop hard drive to SSD solid state drive.
Today's article describes the easiest way, you don't even have to download and install any programs on your laptop. Truly they say that all ingenious is simple. In the next articles, everything will be a little more complicated.
- Note: read the following articles on this topic - .
- If you cannot transfer Windows 7, 8, 8.1 along with hidden partitions from a laptop hard drive to an SSD, then it's easy.
- What to do if, after transferring Windows 8.1 from a regular hard drive to an SSD, the factory reset program stops working on a laptop, or
- If you are interested in the article, visit the special section where you can find from one storage device to another.
In a nutshell, what includes such a transfer, suitable even for a novice user. We will use the built-in the laptop manufacturer to restore the factory settings. We will create a recovery flash drive (you will need a clean 16 GB flash drive), or you can create recovery discs (you will need 3 blank DVDs), using a flash drive or disc we will transferWindows 7, 8, 8.1 along with hidden partitions from laptop hard drive to SSD.
- In simple words,In today's article, we will rollback the laptop to factory settings, but rollback not to the hard drive of the laptop, but to the SSD. As a result, nand on our laptop everything will work as before, but noticeably faster.
1. Hidden partitions with factory settings will remain functional.
2. With Windows 8.1 activation will not even fly off.You can return the hard drive from the laptop back at any time, that is, you do not lose anything.
In the next articles, we will use Acronis True Image and Paragon Home Expert for the transfer.
The whole difficulty of transferring Windows to an SSD solid-state drive (120 GB or 240 GB) is that the SSD's volume is probably less than the laptop's hard drive (500 GB or 1 TB), and in addition to running Windows, we need to transfer hidden partitions with factory settings, so much so that the ability to roll back to the factory settings is not violated. Is it possible to carry out such a transfer? Yes, it is possible!
What prompted me to write these articles? Of course, your numerous requests to describe the transfer of the entire contents of a laptop hard drive to an SSD. At first I had the idea to go the easy way - to find a detailed article on this topic on the Internet and post a link to it on my website, but after wandering through various forums, I found only "raw" reflections on this topic that could lead an inexperienced user to a dead end.
You may ask - What to do with a simple laptop hard drive?
After transferring to a solid-state drive, the operating system Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 will work fine, the program for resetting the laptop to factory settings will also work, in short, everything on your laptop will be the same, only instead of a hard drive there will be an SSD solid-state drive. Even if your SSD is 120 GB in size, then this is more than enough for the operating system, but for data storage you can use a laptop hard drive in an external box or a simple portable USB hard drive.
Many attentive users may ask - "What are the hidden partitions on a laptop?"
And the question is asked correctly, if you have decided on such an operation, then you should know everything about the existing partitions on the hard drive of your laptop.
Before starting the transfer, let's find out all the information about the hard drive of my laptop, then go to the "Disk Management" of the operating system and I will explain everything to you.
For example, Windows 8.1 is installed on my laptop. The manufacturer of my laptop is Toshiba, in the properties of the disk you can see the name of the manufacturer of the hard drive, also Toshiba.
Volumes tab. The hard disk has a standard for the layout of the GPT partition tables, you can see this on the Volumes tab. Below you can see the volume of the hard drive of 700 GB.
Disk Management window
If you have a different laptop manufacturer, there may be a slight difference that does not affect the overall process of migrating Windows to an SSD.
1. First hidden section without a letter, with a volume of 1.00 GB. Good (OEM section), this is a service section of the laptop manufacturer with a program to roll back to factory settings. The laptop manufacturer specifically creates such a section, in a difficult case, if your operating system does not boot due to your careless actions or because of a virus, then you can roll back the laptop to the state it was at the time of the laptop purchase.
2. Second hidden section, volume 260 MB Good (Encrypted (EFI) system partition), it contains the Windows 8.1 boot files, as well as the Windows 8.1 recovery environment files.
3. The third section has the letter C, 344 GB volume, Windows 8 operating system installed. The C: drive, despite its 344 GB volume, is filled with 80 GB files.
4. The fourth section under the letter (E :), volume 341 GB, with data files: music, movies and so on.
5. The fifth hidden section, without a letter, 10.75 GB, Good (OEM section), this section contains the factory image of the Windows 8 operating system.
Attention: If you have deletedfirst hidden sectionletterless, 1.00 GB andfifth hidden section, without a letter, with a volume of 10.75 GB, then transfer in the simplest way described below WindowsSSD won't work, and here's why.
For the transfer, I want to use the built-inby the laptop manufacturer, a factory restore program called Recovery Media Creator, which works with hidden partitions, returning the laptop to its factory state... And if you have removed hidden sections, then the programRecovery Media Creator will not work.
Creating a USB flash drive or recovery discs
All laptop manufacturers ship their devices with their own factory restore program. Each manufacturer has a different name for it, but they all work almost identically. For example, in Toshiba laptops, such a program is called Recovery Disc Creator or Recovery Media Creator, the laptop manufacturer Acer calls this utility, for laptops, the program is called Samsung Recovery Solution 5, for laptops, for HP laptops - HP Recovery Manager. All these programs are similar to each other and work according to the same principle. So, no matter what laptop you have, you can safely use this instruction for yourself.
We connect the power adapter to the laptop so that when creating an image of the hard disk, the laptop does not turn off and the process does not interrupt in the middle.
Move the mouse to the lower left corner and click the left button,
The program invites us to createRecovery media for system recovery, that is, we can create recovery DVDs with you, you will need several (3-5) blank DVDs, the program will ask you to insert three DVDs into the drive one after the other and the entire Windows image will be recorded on them, by the way , the whole process is described in detail in our article .
We can also create a bootable recovery flash drive, but the flash drive must be large, with a volume of 16-32 GB.
I will choose the Kingston DataTraveler Mini stick , I have it in a volume of 32 GB (but 16 GB would be enough).
Carefully, all data on the flash drive will be deleted.
OK. A recovery USB flash drive is being created.
The process of creating a bootable USB drive is complete.
Replacing a laptop hard drive with an SSD solid state drive
Friends, now you need to replace the hard drive in the laptop with a solid-state drive. The replacement should happen without any problems, since the form factor of the laptop hard drive and the SSD solid-state drive are the same - 2.5 inches. We also have several articles on this topic.
We will also consider this issue in this article and there are no difficulties here. Usually on the back of a laptop there is a special compartment for a hard drive and to remove this cover, you just need to unscrew two screws.
The hard drive is attached to the laptop with two more screws, we also unscrew them, then we gently pull on the silicone tab and the hard drive is disconnected.
But on our laptop Toshiba L50 - A - K3K, there is no such compartment, which means you have to completely remove the laptop cover.
We turn the laptop over. First of all, you need to remove the battery from the laptop, but in our case this will not work, since it is also under the cover.
- Important! : The article is given to you for review, if you have never disassembled the laptop, then do it better at the service center. Before disassembling the laptop, remove the battery, if it is not removable, then disconnect it from the laptop motherboard, you need to do this in any case. When you remove the hard drive, do not touch the components located on the laptop motherboard with your hands and with a screwdriver, otherwise the motherboard may fail, and it accounts for 85-90% of the laptop's cost.
We unscrew all the screws securing the back cover of the laptop (bottom), in my case 14 screws.
We take out the drive
and carefully remove the laptop lid, despite the fact that all the screws are unscrewed, the laptop lid is removed with very light effort, since the lid is attached to the laptop case with the help of plastic clips
Neither latches nor clips can be broken into the latches on the case, because the lid will have to be put back.
Here is our hard drive
it is attached to the laptop case with two screws, unscrew the screws and remember exactly where the laptop hard drive was screwed to the motherboard.
Disconnect the hard drive carefully from the SATA connector.
The laptop hard drive is in a kind of sled, we disconnect them.
Well, then we fix the sled on the SSD solid-state drive. The hard drive form factor of a 2.5 laptop is the same as a solid state drive, and our SSD will fit perfectly in the place of a laptop hard drive.
Our 120GB Kingston HyperX 3K SSD
and connect it to the SATA connector on the laptop motherboard and fasten with two screws.
We put the laptop cover and the floppy drive back, we do it carefully, the clips on the cover should fit into the plastic latches on the case.
We turn on the laptop, press F2 or Del when loading and enter the BIOS, as we see our SSD is perfectly defined in the BIOS, which means you can work with it.
Deploy Windows 8.1 from a recovery stick to an SSD
We connect our Kingston DataTraveler Mini 3.0 32GB recovery flash drive and reboot, when the laptop boots, press F2 and enter the BIOS. If you have a UEFI BIOS, then set the Secure Boot option to Disabled.
Do not touch Boot Mode and leave it in the UEFI Boot position,
Then we change the boot priority to the USB flash drive or just press F12 enter the laptop's boot menu, select our flash drive and press Enter, the laptop boots from the recovery flash drive.
The program window for restoring the factory settings of the Toshiba Recovery Wizard appears, select the first item and click Next.
We select the first item "Restore the software installed at the factory by default" and click Next.
The recovery process begins
We accept the terms of the license
Use standard parameters
If you have a Microsoft account, then enter its details. If you don't have a Microsoft account, then create a simple local account.
That's all
Windows 8.1 boots and works fine
We enter Disk Management and see ourSSD Kingston HyperX 3K, 120 GB.
Please note that the volume label C: remained the same, but it does not bother us, and if anything, it can be changed.
In the properties of the disk, you can see the name of the hard drive manufacturer
Volumes tab. The hard disk has a standard for the layout of the GPT partition tables.
The volume of the hard disk is 120 GB.
Conclusion
On our laptop, everything works as before, but noticeably faster.
1. Hidden partitions with factory settings are quite workable.
2. C Windows 8.1 activation did not even fly off.
3. You can return the hard drive from the laptop back at any time, that is, you do not lose anything.
The only drawback is that you will have to install all the programs on the laptop, since in fact, in today's article, we rolled the laptop back to factory settings, but rolled it back not to the laptop's hard drive, but to the SSD.
During installation, the Windows 7 operating system creates a hidden partition where it writes system files and recovery information. The hidden section is not viewable by standard means Windows, and therefore copyable. In order to copy a hidden section, you need to use special program... For example, you can use Acronis Disk Director.
You will need
- - computer;
- - the Internet;
- - Acronis Disk Director program.
Instructions
Question: Transfer Recovery Windows 7 to another hard drive
Hello everyone!
Please, tell me, is it possible to transfer the Recovery partition from one hard drive to another and how to do it?
Is planned replacement hard disk on the laptop.
If such a topic has been discussed or there is a written manual, please point your finger in the right direction.
Thank you.
The RECOVERY section can be copied to any folder by simple copying from the root. Further, the most important point is that when creating a section, each section is assigned a unique identifier that is always different. But in the BCD and the reagent.xml file, the identifiers that were assigned to the RECOVERY section remain, when we create a new one, they will not match, they will not match for all sections, so it's better to create a BCD in general from scratch than to edit it, the same situation is with reagent.xml it is configured with reagentc /? help output on command.
The meaning is something like this, we create as many partitions as there were on the old disk, since it happens that not only the RECOVERY partition is needed, but also WinRE or some other of which winre.wim already loads what is in RECOVERY, depends on the whim of the company whose laptop. In general, we create the same partitions and manually register them in BCD and in reagentc.
The key to which the recovery was called is set as reagentc / bootkey 4300 is for example F9, other keys, if needed, then there is a table of keyboard scancodes on the Internet.
On almost all laptops, the mechanism is approximately the same.
Perhaps there is an easier option, it is to understand on which partition winre lies with the factory reinstallation program, for example, if only RECOVERY then we create RECOVERY on an empty disk, copy the contents there from the recovery on the factory disk, make it active bootable, then immediately at the start of the laptop without pressing the return button will turn on the factory restore system instead of the main system, it will re-create all the partitions and will itself re-create the BDC and reagent.xml. If I wrote something wrong, then I don’t remember exactly how it works, let someone correct me.
Hello, please help with this problem: I have 3 hard drives on my computer: 1- C-74 GB. Windows is loaded on it and loaded from it, 2-L-232 GB. Blank. Formatted., 3-H-465 GB. For software and downloads. I checked the disks using the HDDScan program. Result: L and H-condition is excellent, C-problem: 7 points with yellow triangles c!, redirected sectors 075, temperature +50. During the test: 2 blue, 4 red, 30 orange sectors. In general, from the comments on the Internet, I realized that the disk was dying. With the help of the Acronis True Image WD program I copied disk C (completely) to disk L. The truth is now in my computer L is displayed with a volume of 100 MB and 62 of them are free. The question is: how to make Windows boot from the L drive and it would become the main and bootable its volume (232 GB), is it necessary to split it into subdisks - bootable and for work, or let it remain intact? In the future, I think to clean the C drive, format it, try to treat it, and use it for not very important work(if he dies, God bless him and stop the info that he takes with him) Are my intentions correct, or is it better to throw him out? Can he harm a computer by dying? Thanks! I would be very grateful for your help !!!
Answer: A backup is a copy of the system. May come in handy
Question: Not installation in progress Windows to a hard drive that already has an OS
Given: Dell laptop inspiron n5050, pre-installed hard drive removed from Samsung ultrabook
Find: put a new system on this disk
Background: I removed the old drive, installed a Samsung drive, launched the installation through the BIOS new system from disk, the phrase "installation started" hangs on the screen endlessly, the installation does not continue.
Attempts to find a floppy disk in the BIOS and turn it off (the first thing advised in similar topics) did not lead to anything. in my BIOS on Dell for some reason there is not a word about floppy at all.
What could be the matter and how to solve the problem?
Answer: pmari, no, if the system was, as you say, "sharpened", we would most likely see Bsod, in your case I assume that the disk is not properly prepared for installation, that is, in other words, the old bootloader does not see the system and goes around in search of an OS, it must be delete. This is a 100MB hidden partition.
Question: Transferring Windows XP to another hard drive by cloning
The task is to transfer the Windows XP OS from the old hard drive to the new one. The discs are identical in size. Copying with Acronis, Disk cloning.
I get BSOD after finishing copying. As I understand it, you need to remove the HDD driver, how can this be done better? Will such a thing work ?:
Clear the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ MountedDevices registry key on the cloned OS
Answer: After long and persistent attempts, I found a solution. In the Manager Windows devices found an IDE controller and changed it to a standard one (not Nvidia), rolled up the image and everything went without problems.
Actions such as removing Mounted Device, universal restore, decoupling from Paragon hardware did not give any result.
Question: Is it possible to transfer windows from one disk to another without losing data?
Is it possible to transfer windows from partition hard drive to another hard drive without erasing files from other hard drive partitions? I tried to copy the volume through Acronis Disk Director, but on reboot it writes an error and does not copy.
Answer: londar, look
Question: I forgot the password on 1 hard drive from Windows 7, but I have access to it from the second hard drive
In short, I changed the password drunk and forgot it xD, I have a question - can I somehow reset it without a floppy drive, flash drive, but having access to it using another hard drive?
Answer: Rus1an, it would not hurt to clarify which password, from the account or from the disk ...
but the title of the topic is not unambiguous ...
but you can remove any password
Question: Make a backup of the system and deploy it to another hard drive
I have a 32 gig stick and a laptop with Windows 10 x86 home basic. How can I make a backup as a system image with all installed programs and settings, then upload this image to One Drive, and deploy it to another hard drive, and make that other hard drive bootable?
The goal is to swap disks.
Answer: persen27, and yet, do not know, if I installed acronis 2015, can I somehow make an image of this Windows directly from under it?
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You know, forgive me for being meticulous, but I also wanted to ask, on that new hard drive I created 2 partitions today, one for system recovery, the second for files. And on the second section, I threw a few folders from work.
Do you know if I can somehow restore Windows to the first partition? Without touching the second one? To prevent the second logical partition from deleting all files?
Question: Installing Windows from hard disk
I can't remember how this is done, even approximately ... the installation disk is clean, i.e. I have to boot somehow and format it to NTFS. it is not clear from a flash drive or from a CD which OS should be installed on them. After booting, I have to copy the system image to this formatted disk and start the installation ...
Everything is somehow vague, where can I read more about this installation option?
Answer: Yes, no Windows is installed since 2003 XP, 7, 10 MSI board, comes and asks for firewood for the CD, maybe the tire is broken from the CD to the mother, maybe something else ... in general, I would like to try (installing from a USB flash drive is the same trouble) from a hard one, so as not to think. In general, I boot from the LiveCD, dump the image to the C: drive, shutdown, take out the disc from the LiveCD, turn off the computer, and then how to start the installation? installation, then with what parameters for XP?
Question: Windows 10 stopped loading after trying to insert into laptop old hard disk
Good afternoon, the second day I can not solve the problem with running wines 10 on a Samsung RV520 laptop. The fact is that yesterday I tried to insert an old hard drive from another laptop into the laptop. It did not work. After that I inserted back my own hard drive from win 10, At startup, the download hung on the window and instead of the download circle, 1 point appeared and that's it. It waited an hour, nothing changed.
I tried to reboot, the auto system recovery started loading, but again the same point appeared and that's it. I tried to restore the BIOS settings, it did not help. I tried to start the recovery through F4. The inscription Invalid recovery area appeared. I put the hard one with Vin 10 in the hospital - everything works fine. and loads pretty quickly. I tried to make a bootloader for wines 10, and after downloading other OS versions to make a bootable USB flash drive to restore wines 10 or at least reinstall the system. did not help. when loading any wines from a USB flash drive, it gives blue screen with an error or just after replacing the priority in the BIOS, the message Press any key to boot from CD / DVD appears. I press-a window appears from 10 wines and hangs again. Help please (I broke my whole head ... and carrying it for repairs is not the best option
Answer: If it is possible to get to the battery on the motherboard, then you can try to disconnect the battery and remove the battery for a few minutes or hours.