Moving Win 7 and apps from 2 drives to 2 partitions

[Guest GLarry_gnus]

I have a win 7 Home Premium install that's working fine but I need to do some storage upgrades.

 

At present, 7 boots from an 80GB SSD and has Windows and some apps installed there. But it's only 80GB and I'm worried about future space (24GB left). In light of that, over the past year, I have also been installing some additional apps on to the E: drive (a WD Raptor 600GB) when given the choice. There appear to be about 10GB in the 2 win program folders on E: and less than 1GB of User files on there.

 

I have a 240GB SSD and want to partition it as about 160GB C: and 80GB E:.

 

If I clone all of the C: onto SSD partition 1, can I simply copy "program files" and "p f (x86)" from the old E: WD onto the E: partition of the new SSD? The pagefile.sys is also currently on E: but I can temp disable paging until after the new swap.

 

Should I also move some user stuff from old E; HD to new E: SSD? "In theory" would this work? Is the "system volume info" folder on E: a problem if not moved?

 

 

Machine is a Sandy Bridge i5 2500K, 16GB RAM, middling video card..... I HAVE to get my XP machine closed up and start working full time on this one. My plan is to make a VM on the WD and clone the XP install to that... would not boot from it, just have a couple of apps that are there where the install discs have "evaporated"...

 

 

Thanks,

 

GLarry

 

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