Migrate from Sata to SSD

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giskard

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Greetings,

I have a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard & Windows 7 via Bootcamp. Hdd is a 160gb 7200 rpm sata. I've just purchased an Intel 160gb SSD that i want to drop into the MacBook Pro as a replacement.

I'm happy with my current installs, so just wondering if there is a simple way i can do a 1 to 1 image of the whole drive?

Next question. Is this a dumb idea? :) Will imaging affect speed, performance etc? Anything else to consider?

Thanks in advance.
 
Generally, a clean OS install will give a fresh start and allowing you to only install the programs you really use. Performance would be even better.
 
It also allows W7 to align the drive properly were imaging can add more work, having to manually do it. (Not always necessary from what I gather but a known issue.)
 
You need Acronis Home 2010 or a preview version....also Norton Ghost will work. Basically just make a backup image of your entire drive save the image to an external drive. Then create a rescue disk from Acronis or Ghost. Once you have done that swap out your drives and boot with the rescue disk, with your external drive plugged in to the PC/Laptop. The book will give you an option to format and reimage a drive at which point you point it to your image that’s on the external drive and let it image your new drive. In about 20 min or less you'll have everything the way it was but on the new drive. It’s the fastest and easiest way ever!!!

Enjoy!

- Ken
 
I have no earthly idea how Mac OS handles SSD and partition alignment... But using drive cloning software w/o knowing what you're doing will easily throw off the alignment on an SSD and degrade performance. Basically you wanna partition the drive manually (if you're not sure that the OS will do it properly, Vista & Win7 do), and then restore an image unto the drive without re-creating the partition. The last versions of Arconis and Ghost are able to do that, but you have to fiddle with the settings, otherwise they'll recreate the partition and throw it all off. Do some research on the matter before experimenting.
 
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