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Brian Webster
Asked: 2010-09-22 16:42:23 +0800 CST

Windows Server 2008 R2 - How do I move my System Volume to a new SSD?

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I have a system volume in Windows Server 2008 R2 that I have shrunk to well under the size of a 40 GB SSD.

What steps should I perform to move the image to the SSD and boot from it instead?

The only complication is that the source HDD has three volumes, one that is a few MB reserved by windows, one that is about 35 GB, and one that is about 500 GB (Data volume). Clearly I only want the first two volumes on the SSD, thus, I suspect I may need to use some built in windows 2008 functionality to get them operating correctly on the new drive.

Moving the data volume to another drive to simplify matters is a possibility...

Thanks

windows-server-2008

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  1. Best Answer

    Easy! Purchase (or use a free) disk imaging/cloning tool.

    • Install that software on another machine
    • Shut down your server, and remove the HDD
    • Shutdown the other machine, and insert both HDDs (the server disk, and the SSD)
    • Clone
    • Shutdown the other machine and put the SSD drive into the server
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