Noob SSD Format (?)

[liquidfluidity]

Planning to upgrade to an Intel X-25M and was wondering if I can just image my current drive and then format the SSD using said image - or will it need to be a format from scratch?

 

[TehQuick]

What exactly do you mean when you say 'format'? In my understanding, it means just wiping the disk of data. In any case, there's very few hdd cloning programs that work properly with SSDs - i.e. don't screw up the alignment which is very important. Clean install is recommended, with Win7 or Vista which set the alignment correctly.

 

[liquidfluidity]

By format , I simply mean win7 install. So you're saying it's better to start from scratch rather than to format the SSD from an image from my current drive?

 

[InvisiBill]

How I copied my existing partitions to my new SSD

 

[liquidfluidity]

Thanks for the reply, InvisiBill. Sounds like a bit of work! Thankfully , I just run 1 partition and everything else goes to a different drive for storage. I guess I need to weigh the value of my simple existing set-up with the ease of just reformatting the neww SSD. HMMMMM