Windows 10: restore windows 7 image to an SSD when it was made on a Hard Drive

Discus and support restore windows 7 image to an SSD when it was made on a Hard Drive in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; Can I restore a Win7 image made from a hard drive to an SSD same as I would to a hard drive? The hard drive is 1tb the SSD is 1tb... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by Canadian Tech, Nov 25, 2023.

  1. CANADIAN TECH
    Canadian Tech Win User

    restore windows 7 image to an SSD when it was made on a Hard Drive


    Can I restore a Win7 image made from a hard drive to an SSD same as I would to a hard drive? The hard drive is 1tb the SSD is 1tb

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    Canadian Tech, Nov 25, 2023
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  2. JSTN7477
    Jstn7477 Win User

    Can I restore an SSD image to a normal hard drive disk

    The idea is sound, but beware if you restore to a hard drive and want to go back to SSDs that are smaller than that hard drive will prevent you from cloning from the drive back to the SSDs even if the total size of the partitions is small enough to fit onto the SSDs. I ran into that when my 120GB SSD died, used a fresh install on a hard drive for a month and wanted to drop the 90GB system image onto my 240GB SSD. Still haven't found a workaround for that.
     
    Jstn7477, Nov 25, 2023
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  3. JSTN7477
    Jstn7477 Win User
    Can I restore an SSD image to a normal hard drive disk

    What I was saying was the reverse, cloning a 500GB drive with 90GB of actual data to a 240GB SSD. Can't restore a 90GB system image made by Windows to my 240GB SSD because I installed Windows on a 500GB HDD.
     
    Jstn7477, Nov 25, 2023
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  4. NORTON
    Norton Win User

    restore windows 7 image to an SSD when it was made on a Hard Drive

    Can I restore an SSD image to a normal hard drive disk

    I believe you can do that with Acronis True Image. I used the free version from Western Digital to clone a laptop drive over to a larger laptop drive.
     
    Norton, Nov 25, 2023
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