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Alexander Tartmin2014-06-16 17:46:21
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Alexander Tartmin, 2014-06-16 17:46:21

How to transfer Windows 8.1 to SSD drive (GPT partitioning)?

We have a hard drive from a Dell Inspirion 3537 laptop with Windows 8.1 preinstalled and an SSD drive. There was a desire to replace a regular disk with an SSD drive, and then I ran into a problem. Partition copying was done through the well-known Acronis Disk Director.
I copied the sections with a small omission: on the original disk, 2 sections (there are 5 of them in the total account) were marked system and boot. When copying, these partition attributes were not taken into account, which even Akronis itself warned me about. And here, in fact, the question is: how can you still transfer the entire disk structure to another in its original form, so to speak? And is there a way after which you don’t have to additionally shamanize and dance with admin tools? I’ll make a reservation right away that the size of the hard drive is 320 gigabytes, and the size of the SSD is 120 gigabytes.
The red arrows indicate the old screw, these two sections are of most interest (system and boot)
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Here I marked a message that the disk, in principle, should not be loaded after all the manipulations
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This is how the final version looks like
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obliterati, 2014-09-11
@baskerville42

I also suffered with the transition to ssd, as it turned out, it was necessary to use acronis true image: it transfers everything in one operation with loading from uefi. At the output, an absolutely ready-made system without additional settings.

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Nokin, 2017-01-31
@Nokin

While I was looking for the corresponding Acronis for a similar task, I found that the free MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition 9.1 has an assistant that solves this problem easily and gracefully.

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plasticmirror, 2014-06-16
@plasticmirror

first cut the partitions to the size of the SSD (by means of Windows itself)
then the flash drive, ubuntu, dd byte by byte
should work

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shaytura, 2016-01-20
@shaytura

Download the Windows image from Microsoft using the media creation tool for the version that was, download the image from a disk or flash drive. All.

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