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Intel disk migration on intel SSD

rudy

rudy

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I have a 120GB G2 intel ssd and I want to upgrade to 160GB because I am running out of space. This drive has the OS on it and I want to know if I use intels migration tools will I be able to just move the whole OS, games and everything over to the 160GB 320 drive will everything be good to go or will the data not be written correctly or anything. I know that migration from a HDD to and SSD is not reccomended but what about SSD to SSD?
 
I upgraded Windows 7 on a 64 GB SSD to a 128 GB SSD. I used dd, which is a Unix bit-for-bit copy utility. It worked fine, and alignment was preserved. I booted up into a Linux boot CD (Ubuntu, but it doesn't really matter) and did the dd. After the dd, Windows still saw a 64 GB volume on a 128 GB disk, and I just had Windows extend the volume to fill the new space.

It's a good idea to benchmark the system before and after the upgrade. It showed me my alignment was correct, but I'd been using a SATA port that wasn't capable of AHCI.
 
You should be just fine.

As far as this goes
...I know that migration from a HDD to and SSD is not reccomended....
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all I have to say is "pppffffffffftttttttttttt" to that recommendation.

I've done a backup/restore using Acronis True Image Home three times, each from traditional hard drives to SSDs without a hitch, including once where the source was a stripped array and I've yet to encouter any problems. Alignment came out fine and benchmarks have been consistent with those typically found for each hard drive make/model. I've done this with Intel x-25m g2, a Crucial c300 and a Western Digital blue SSD. All OS's have been variants of Win 7 x64. For grins with the WD blue ssd, I did both a restore and a complete reinstall of Windows and compared benchmarks for each - no real difference.

As I understand, direct cloning of a traditional hard drive to an SSD with many tools will cause alignment issues. I've always first formatted the SSD under Windows 7, then done a backup-restore (vs. straight clone) and did not have any issues, alignment or otherwise.
 
2,5 years ago I cloned an XP install from an HDD to my first SSD, that was a pain, because at the time alignment wasn't a concern of common softwares. But I managed to do it (I never reinstall because that's a far bigger pain), with driveimagexml (it can clone to an existing partition).

I switched to 7 eventually, but I put it first on an old HDD, since it was difficult for me to let go of XP. I then had to clone that 7 to my SSD, then later I bought a bigger SSD and cloned it again. I used acronis since it now supported alignment, but I think the windows backup tool should be enough.
 
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