There are 2 replies, with the last one on August 17 2013 at 12:18:17 by Gork
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As long as you have enough connectors it doesn't matter how many bays you have during the temporary restoration process. If you don't have enough connectors you could image the old drive to a network location or external hard drive then replace the old hard drive with the new and boot to the Reflect DVD. From there point the DVD to the external storage location for the image and restore it to the SSD. Or, as @tim suggests, create a bootable thumb drive instead of a bootable CD.
My suggestion is to always image and restore instead of cloning if at all possible, however. Also, be sure not to erase the hold hard drive until you're sure the new is up and running appropriately.
There are no pitfalls cloning to a SSD. Since you're restoring to a large drive, be sure in the first window which pops up to DRAG your old partitions to the new drive then click on Restored Partition Properties and click the "Maximum Size" button. It wouldn't hurt to verify the Alignment choice on this same window is Vista/7/SSD as well.
Keep in mind my above instructions are based on what happens when I RESTORE an image file; I assume the same thing happens during a cloning procedure.
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As long as you have enough connectors it doesn't matter how many bays you have during the temporary restoration process. If you don't have enough connectors you could image the old drive to a network location or external hard drive then replace the old hard drive with the new and boot to the Reflect DVD. From there point the DVD to the external storage location for the image and restore it to the SSD. Or, as @tim suggests, create a bootable thumb drive instead of a bootable CD.
My suggestion is to always image and restore instead of cloning if at all possible, however. Also, be sure not to erase the hold hard drive until you're sure the new is up and running appropriately.
There are no pitfalls cloning to a SSD. Since you're restoring to a large drive, be sure in the first window which pops up to DRAG your old partitions to the new drive then click on Restored Partition Properties and click the "Maximum Size" button. It wouldn't hurt to verify the Alignment choice on this same window is Vista/7/SSD as well.
Keep in mind my above instructions are based on what happens when I RESTORE an image file; I assume the same thing happens during a cloning procedure.