I hope there's a simple yes/no answer about cloning to SSD
I have a Windows XP desktop machine with a 500GB drive in it.
There's only 63gb used though.
I want to buy a 128GB SSD and clone the current drive over.
I hope it's as simple as installed ATIH on my current windows drive, attaching the new SSD as a second drive and then clone away. Shut down, remove old drive, make 128GB SDD main drive and reboot happily.
Can ATIH 2012 do this? Has anyone actually done it?
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I haven't tried it with 2012, but it should eb just as you imagine. The only thing to be aware of is that if your current drive is not formatted with 1MB sectors the clone will just copy the sectors as 512 Byte
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Thanks Colin.
Sorry I don't understand. "if your current drive is not formatted with 1MB sectors the clone will just copy the sectors as 512 Byte"
How do I check the current drive?
Is there a workaround?
What type of issue will this cause?
Kind regards,
John
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I did this with my laptop. I pre-formatted the SSD before starting. Then I did a off-line clone (as opposed to cloning with Windows running). Swapped the drives and booted. All OK and super fast system.
Gary
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John,
Best to do a disk and partition backup of your old disk and then restore that backup to your SSD. Restoring each partition at a time will allow you to do 2 things:
- make sure that the first partition has an offset of 1MB exactly (this will align your SSD),
- control which partition should be changed in size to take advantage of your new SSD, instead of letting ATI scale the partition(s) for you.
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