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Hi yall
I am copying my C: drive contents to a new SSD. What is the best free software to do this with?
HDClone allows you to switch to 4k alignment (even the free version I think)
The built-in Win 7 backup will also align properly when restoring to an SSD, even if the image is from a platter drive.
I'm guessing he'd still need to manually turn off the things a clean install usually disables by default though?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx
Can plug his numbers in here once he's up and running to verify the alignment is good.
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/157
If the disk is already aligned, just shrink partition with disk management and let clonezilla do the rest.
Acronis will work. I've used it and it aligned the SSD perfectly. If you have a Western Digital HDD, you can go to their website and download a free version.
http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119
Yep.I believe Paragon sells software that will fix alignment without having to do a re-install.
Looks like that's the 2009 Acronis and I'm pretty sure it doesn't keep alignment.
I used Acronis. Got the free trial. I set a restore point, then installed it, I then created an image and restored it to the SSD. After doing that, I restored the system to before I installed Acronis.
That user experience (even though I didn't buy it), prompted me to purchase a number of licenses for Acronis for work.
I ended up with perfect alignment on my Torqx when I used it to move an image over that was on a Caviar Blue drive. I ended up doing this twice(firmware upgrade erased data) and both times it worked.
Last time I heard it didn't.anyone know if ghost will align drives correctly?
Ahhhhh OK...why not just buy it?Thing is I want the functionality of Acronis.
FWIW, in my testing Acronis 2011 and v11 do not keep partition alignment beyond the start of the first partition. Subsequent partitions (and the end of the first) are not aligned. Miray HDclone also does not maintain alignment beyond the start of the first partition (just like Acronis). Since Windows 7 does not install itself to the first partition when installing to a clean unpartitioned drive this is a problem (due to Windows 7's creation of the 100MB system reserved partition). Windows 7 aligns partitions (both start & end) to fall on 1MiB boundaries. This is a very good alignment for SSDs. Unfortunately, Acronis and Miray both screw this up even with doing a disk to disk clone operation (unless set to do a 1:1 RAW copy which isn't an option if the target drive is smaller).
Based on my experience, it was both. In general I found 2011 to be pretty much unusable. One of the things I tried was to restore multiple partitions to a single disc one at time by controlling the unallocated area. Unfortunately, the size of the partition and the unallocated area did not change together like it should have so it was basically impossible since you couldn't get the partition the right size while having the proper amount of unused disc after it. So using 2011 to restore partitions one at time from a disc backup pretty much dead.When using Acronis did it misalign when using the "partition" or "disc" backup modes, or both?
I know, but if you do a clean install on an unpartitioned disk, you can't avoid it.I've run w7 without that system reserved partition. AFAIK it's no big deal to not use it.
Not really....I just deleted the partition after it was made and formatted the whole disk over again. The small boot partition never reappeared and I installed without it.I know, but if you do a clean install on an unpartitioned disk, you can't avoid it.
Ok, that process is not at all intuitive though.
Ok, that process is not at all intuitive though.
I am running on the SSD now that I copied from my HDD. How can I check the alignment? How can I make sure that ACHI is on?
Crap. It says 10300K - BAD