In this situation, I successfully transferred Windows 7 operating system to a new hard drive.įirst, I turn to the Move/Resize Partition provided by MiniTool Partition Wizard to release some free space from disk 2, and then create a new partition (format it as FAT32, but without a volume letter) on it by, and move the new partition to the front of the disk 2. System Reserved – volume currently active & bootĭ – (no label) which contains a corrupt old version of Windows 7 Home OS Here, I have a laptop running Win7 equipped with:ĭisk 1: WDC HDD 465 Gb with 2 partitions:Ĭ – New volume – which hosts my current (active) Windows 7 Home OS partitionį – Data – which contains a number of data files

How to Migrate OS with System & Boot Volume Separate Then, I searched lots of materials, and found an effective solution as follows. Today, I came across a headline that asked, “ How to migrate Windows 7 OS from HDD to SSD on a multi partition disk with system & boot volume separate?”