Joe Average
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Ok, I've got a client coming tomorrow that's dropping off one of his entirely too many laptops and a brand spankin' new Corsair 128GB SSD (I don't know which one, unfortunately, until he shows up). He wants the current Windows 7 installation on a 160GB drive (he's not even using 25% of that one so...) moved to the SSD and checked for everything top to bottom.
Now, I've been doing disk clones for oh, what, 2 decades or so, but to be honest this will be the first time a client has brought me a current install where I'm "upgrading" to the SSD - I recently had someone with a MacBook Pro do the same thing but I was able to do a fresh clean install of Snow Leopard as well as Windows 7 so I know it was aligned properly from the gitgo.
That's not the case here, so I'm curious if anyone has advice, suggestions, or knows of a tool (if one exists) that will help to properly align the Windows 7 installation once it's cloned over to the SSD. I'm guessing it can't be that difficult to do but, before I go toying around with this guy's stuff, I figure I'd ask the more experienced folk about this particular situation.
As stated, this is not a clean install which would align the drive, it's just a cloning operation from hard drive to SSD, and I would obviously wish for the SSD alignment to be correct when everything is all said and done.
Would have asked earlier but I literally got off the phone a short time ago, did some research here and online in general and just couldn't find any decent information, hence me asking.
Thanks for any responses...
Now, I've been doing disk clones for oh, what, 2 decades or so, but to be honest this will be the first time a client has brought me a current install where I'm "upgrading" to the SSD - I recently had someone with a MacBook Pro do the same thing but I was able to do a fresh clean install of Snow Leopard as well as Windows 7 so I know it was aligned properly from the gitgo.
That's not the case here, so I'm curious if anyone has advice, suggestions, or knows of a tool (if one exists) that will help to properly align the Windows 7 installation once it's cloned over to the SSD. I'm guessing it can't be that difficult to do but, before I go toying around with this guy's stuff, I figure I'd ask the more experienced folk about this particular situation.
As stated, this is not a clean install which would align the drive, it's just a cloning operation from hard drive to SSD, and I would obviously wish for the SSD alignment to be correct when everything is all said and done.
Would have asked earlier but I literally got off the phone a short time ago, did some research here and online in general and just couldn't find any decent information, hence me asking.
Thanks for any responses...