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The first problem is your choice of "as-is". It has to be "manual" and then you will have to adjust the 100 meg partition back up to 100 meg. Once you do that, clone and you should be fine. What you want is to map the system partition 100 to 100 and the 1T to down to 120. If you use as is it will try and create a 1T partition. If you use auto it will reduce "Both" partitions proportionally. Manual lets you choose what you want and tune the partitions to the correct size.

Success!! Thanks for the suggestions. I manually cloned the drive as you said after disabling and re-enabling restore points. Had a minor issue with setting the reserve partition as 100mb. The acronis program (or intel rebranded progrma) limited me to 27mb for the reserve partition. It would not let me expand it to 100mb. I had to reduce the size of the remaining drive partition by 75MB as unallocated space between the two. Then i could expand the reserve partition to 100MB and finally reduce the unallocated space to zero. Hopefully i did not mess up anything else. It seemed to work and now WHS backed up fine (atleast it said so!). I am sure you all know these issues with the cloning software but thought id mention it in case someone else was facing the same problem and chanced upon this thread.

Thanks everyone for the help!!

Thanks everyone. i will reclone the drive and see if WHS works with that change.

To ikon...

The biggest advantage for me is that the installer will do automatically, the things that should be done to maximize the life of the SSD. These things can all be done manually of course; it's just convenenient, and reassuring, to have Win7 do them itself (it means you don't forget any).

This may be of topic...but i did not realize that Win 7 maximized the life of the drive. I thought a clone was like an exact copy and what was good for my HDD should be for my newer drive. With what you say, may be I should instead reinstall win 7 even if reinstalling all the software is more time consuming. Thanks...

Take a look at this, http://www.unproduct...nd-windows.html

We must have posted at exactly the same time. That link sounds just like my problem! thanks

Thanks for the quick reply
1. Sorry, but what is VSS? So if I understood you right, the mistake i made was to have cloned an identical sized system reserve partition from the HDD to the SSD. BTW, I was presented with three choices while cloning: As is, proportionate (or something like that), manual. I choose 'as is' as otherwise it was going to make a 21MB partition and I was not sure if that was too small. So I choose As Is and made a 100 MB partition for system reserve. Would you suggest that i clean the SSD and redo my cloning using the proportionate option? I will remember to switch off system restore before cloning. Thanks for the tip.

2. Yes i was talking about the 100MB system reserve partition. That is the one creating the error message. Just now, i successfully backed up the main partition (149Gb) of the SSD, the 0.93 Tb hard drive and the 100MB partition on the original HDD. In other words if I just exclude the system reserve partition of the SSD everything is fine with WHS.

3. Is there any other advantage going forward with resinstalling Win 7 on the SSD vs cloning. I read somewhere about alignment but could not quite understand that part.

thanks again