Changing dual boot Win7 & Win10 from SATA to SSD drive

On one of my desktop computers running Windows 10 Pro, I added a SSD drive. Then, I cloned the OS partition on to the SSD drive, which ran perfectly.

But on another desktop, I dual boot Windows 7 Home and Windows 10 Home on an older SATA hard drive. And I've now added a 240 GB SSD drive.

The existing boot drive has 3 partitions for booting -- the Windows 7 (C:), Windows 10 (D:) and the 100 MB System Reserved partition.

How does one go about changing OS's to the SSD drive ?

Do I simply clone all three portions to separate partitions on the new drive, and make this drive the boot drive ? Anything I need to be careful about ?

Thanks for any assistance on this. Cheers.

esgee said:

How does one go about changing OS's to the SSD drive ?

Do I simply clone all three portions to separate partitions on the new drive, and make this drive the boot drive ?

Yep, that's all you have to do.

NavyLCDR said:

Yep, that's all you have to do.

Great ! Thanks very much. :)

x509 said:

What about the bcdboot command?

Not required. The bcdboot command is used to add an OS to the boot menu. In this case, the dual booting is already set up.

Just curious - what backup program was used here?
Isn't it better to reimage instead of cloning, why or why not?

Reimage is when you save an image file of the partitions to a storage location and then restore the images to the new drive. Cloning or reimaging really doesn't matter if you know how to use the program to adjust the partitions to the new size/format of the new drive and you have no desire to keep a copy of the partitions in an image file for backup purposes.

Will True Image Cloning work on the newer SSHD drives? | Acronis Forum
see first paragraph in post 2 about potential issues

Process - Cloning -Switch HD - Sys Backup and Data Backup -Best approach | Acronis Forum
see post 3

"Reimage" - sorry, it means restore images of partitions done by ATI backup.
Reimaging permits you to adjust Windows partition sizes. And there is no potential issuse of having two bootable drives on at the same time.
I never cloned, always used restoring images when replacing drives. No experience with SSD though.

91fw said:

Will True Image Cloning work on the newer SSHD drives? | Acronis Forum
see first paragraph in post 2 about potential issues

Process - Cloning -Switch HD - Sys Backup and Data Backup -Best approach | Acronis Forum
see post 3

"Reimage" - sorry, it means restore images of partitions done by ATI backup.
Reimaging permits you to adjust Windows partition sizes. And there is no potential issuse of having two bootable drives on at the same time.
I never cloned, always used restoring images when replacing drives. No experience with SSD though.

Thanks. Also to NavyLCDR. And apologies for the late response.

I'm familiar with the process -- just wasn't aware of the term "reimage". Have been a bit busy lately, but I think I'll try reimaging rather than cloning when I can find the time.

Thanks again.