clone a ssd drive
In order to cone a ssd drive, do you need to have another ssd the same size, or can you clone an ssd drive to an empty hdd that is a different size?
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K0LO wrote:The destination drive can be a different size provided that it is large enough to hold all of the used space on the source disk.
Thanks very much for the reply. That helps.
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Hello David,
I understand the question and will do everything possible from my side to give you a clear explanation.
Also please take into consideration that if you restore a single partition or partitions, then TI writes a new entry in the partition table for each restored partition, and it does this according to the older, established partitioning rules. In other words, the partitions will be aligned on cylinder boundaries and will have an offset of 63 sectors. This is not the best alignment for an SSD.
However, if your image is of the entire disk, and you restore the entire disk at once by putting a checkmark next to the disk number, then TI will use the partition table from the saved image. So if you have an SSD set up with the desired alignment and then you create a full-disk image, that full-disk image can then be restored and the existing alignments will be preserved.
Let me know if you need further assistance.
Thank you.
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