Yay! TIH2011 successfully cloned my Win7 disk to my new SSD
I received my new Kingston 64GB SSD today so I fired up TIH2011 and attempted to clone my primary disk (1TB HDD, 3 partitions) to my 64GB SSD using an USB docking station for my SSD. Win7 didn't recognize the SSD since it was raw and unformatted. I had to go into Disk Management and manually create a new 64GB partition (using all default values).
Of course, cloning didn't immediately work since my C: was more than 64GB. So I moved 30GBs off the drive, ran TIH2011 and tried the Clone Drive again.
This time, it allowed me to proceed and after rebooting, the disks did their thing. At this cloning state, the PC doesn't load Win7 so all you see is a blank screen and your HDD and SSD lights flickering on and off.
One annoying thing is that after the SSD was done cloning, the computer just sits there still with the blank screen. You just have to assume that the cloning is done when the HDD/SSD lights stop flickering.
So I turned off the PC, disconnected my HDD, popped the SSD from the docking station and mounted it on PC, turned the PC back on, and voila, it booted off the SSD and my Win7 drive is up and running again, like magic! And so much faster now with the SSD! Very happy camper.
Thanks for that link. I don't have all the data for the Kingston V100 64GB SSD drive, but it looks like the partitions are aligned. Speed-wise, it's pretty fast so.... :-)
I just successfully cloned my SSD as well. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 installed on a 2009 Mac Pro on a separate hard drive. I used ATI 2011 boot media to successfully clone my 300GB Velociraptor HDD to a new OCZ Vertex 2 360GB SSD. It only took about 45mins. I selected shut down after completion and ATI performed as expected. Once shut down, I removed the Velociraptor HDD from Drive bay #1 and Replaced it with the new OCZ SSD. I booted into windows and after the new drivers for the OCZ installed I rebooted. Upon reboot all worked as planned (BTW, my drive is fast and aligned).
My computer is a 2009 Mac Pro dual 2.93 Nehalem with 64GB RAM, ATI Radeon 5870 w Dual 24" Apple display. I have a 50GB OCZ vertex 2 for paging, another for scratch and one more for analysis data temp storage. The MAC OSX boot drive is a WD 1TB. I use this machine for Finite Element Analysis (Complex Computational Analysis).
It is nice to see that the alignment is preserved even when the cloning is executed on a disk of a different size. I was a bit concerned that some scaling would take place that could compromise the alignment. Good to know. Nice setup, Sean!