Fitting an SSD to the T420, and moving Windows to it WITHOUT a reinstall

Hi there,
I'd seen some threads around about the T420's suitability for an SSD in the WWAN slot. Well I've just received my T420, and had ordered one of the Intel 80GB mSATA SSDs. I spent this evening moving the Windows install from the 500GB hard drive to the SSD, and didn't need to reinstall. I don't know why Lenovo don't offer the SSD as an option!
So I bought the 80GB Intel mSATA SSD from Ingram Micro; you can just fit it into the wireless WAN (i.e. 3G slot) in the T420 - took about 5 minutes, and you just have to tuck the aerial leads out of the way when you put the bottom back on. The BIOS detects the SSD without a problem.
M'colleague Pete suggested the trick to avoid a reinstall of Windows 7. In brief, we shrank the HDD's Windows partition down to 50GB, created a mirror of it on the SSD, then rebooted off the SSD and removed the mirror.
In some detail:
1) make a recovery disc before you start (I didn't but I know this stuff!);
2) defragment your C drive (right click under My Computer, go to Properties->Tools and choose defragment). Took about 45 minutes to finish on mine;
3) go to Computer Management -> Storage -> Disc Management;
4) right-click both the SSD, and the internal hard drive, and convert both of them to Dynamic Disks
5) right-click the larger of the two windows partitions on your hard disc, and shrink them to the size of your SSD (i.e. 74GB if you want to use the whole SSD for Windows) - wait for that to complete;
6) create a mirror of the first two partitions on the hard drive, mirroring them to the SSD (i.e. right-click each partition, click Add Mirror, and choose Disk 1 as the destination);
7) wait for the mirrors to complete (i.e. the Rebuilding... message will go away).
8) start an administrator-mode command prompt (go to Start, type "command" and click the "Command Prompt" option while holding ctlr+shift);
9) type "bcdedit /enum" and note the long number associated with the SECOND boot option. Then type "bcdedit /default {xxx}" where xxx is the number. For good measure type "bcdedit /timeout 2" to make sure you see the menu and can fix a mistake manually;
10) reboot the system - before it comes back you'll see the windows boot loader menu - choose the second option (should be the default), which is to boot off your SSD
11) when windows comes back up, you can go back to the Disk Manager and choose "Remove mirror" for disk 0, and you can reclaim the space. Hooray!
That is about the minimum that you need to do to move the partition and get it to boot.
I wasn't sure how to tell windows to install a bootloader on the SSD, and completely disengage the hard drive from the boot process, but I'm sure someone will fill me in.
NB I've not tested the above sequence PRECISELY, as I had some further fiddling to get my Linux installation to work, which isn't relevant to the above trick. I'd be interested to know if it works for someone else - as I said, please make sure you have your recovery DVDs and backups handy just in case.

You could have used Intel's Clone tools. My experience is that you are better off following the prescribed method of using the rescue disks to do a reinstall. The system seems to boot faster that way.
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