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One of my clients has a critical Windows 7 workstation, due to the variety of software installed on the machine, 'extremely' intricate software setup, and it's critical nature to the business it needs to be migrated to a new smaller SSD disk intact (and double quick).

This question addresses the problem for a server solution but does the accepted question's advice hold for a simple workstation.

Whichever solution is proposed it needs to be bullet proof and take <4 hours to perform or the client's business will being loosing a substantial amount of money per hour!

The reason for the migration is failing hardware.

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If its that critical then I also wouldn't bother moving it to a single SSD (yet again a single point of failure). At the least I would migrate it to a RAID 5 set. However what you should really do is get rolling with virtualization and use a P to V (physical to virtual) migration tool to capture the workstation in a VM. You can then live replicate the VM and keep it in sync with the captured VM for recovery/fail over.

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