Any one good with computers?

[Danimal]

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There are a number of tricky steps involved in moving a Windows partition to a new device and having it be bootable. What you've done is install Win8 on the ssd and happen to have a copy of your win7 files there, too - but they're likely not "installed" in the Win8 system space. If they are, you got me, and congratulations.

When I migrate Win systems to new disks, and I've done a bunch of them the past few weeks, I do one of the following:

Easiest by far is to make sure your old hdd and new ssd have the same LBA dimensions, or the ssd is bigger in LBA than the hdd, then do a sector copy from the hdd to the ssd. Works every time.

Or, if you can backup the Win8 stuff to an external disk, then reinstall Win8 on the new ssd and restore the backup to the ssd, that will probably work, too. The backup and restore parameters don't touch the MBR, just replace the information it goes looking for when it gets there.

Or, there are commercial tools like ghost that do this pretty well, too - unfortunately most freeware is less than complete when it comes to handling Win7/Win8 boot issues, still, though they're gangbusters on *nix and older wintel partitions.

Lastly, I've also had good luck using the linux-based system rescue cd to do "partimage" copies of partitions to external media, initialize the ssd to the same or adequate partition sizes, then restore the partition images to those partitions. One other method I've been able to do on Vista/Win7/Win8 is to use gparted or partition magic to do partition copies, then boot from the system recovery media, and let it make the necessary changes to correct the boot parameters on the new ssd.

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I've posted a picture before....let me know how I can help.

(Imagine that being said with both my thumbs hooked in my waistband pulling my pants up much too far)

[Danimal]

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