Installing SSD using TI9

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I have two ide hard drives, 80 GB (C) for OS and programs and a 250 GB (D) for storage. I want to install a 40 GB SSD in place of the 80 GB drive using TI9. Will it work? The drive is only using about 24 GB. And I have my two hard drives connected as master and slave. When I only have the one 250 GB drive do I change it from slave to master as it will be the only ide drive on that channel? Am i going to run into problems with the SSD being a SATA drive? I have SATA ports enabled on my MB. My TI image is on a 200 GB external (USB) drive. Is it better to put the new drive in and recover the image from my external or should I just clone the drive to the new SSD? I have been making weekly full image backups since 2007 and have never needed to restore yet. Thanks in advance.

Sun, 08/22/2010 - 00:01
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The 250GB drive will need its jumper changed. Make sure to check the drive for the correct position. Some have a separate Master position depending on whether or not a Slave is connected. Note that if the drive is using CS (Cable Select) instead of Master/Slave, connect the drive to the Master connection on the cable.

Personally, I would try doing the restore. It would be good to know if it works or not before you have a problem. Assuming the 80GB drive is Vista/Win7 aligned, you'll lose the alignment when you resize the partition. You may have better results creating the partition before you restore and then using TI 2010 to restore into it.

Mon, 08/23/2010 - 04:46
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When restoring an image to a new drive, do you need to format the new drive of do anything else to it? I was told you did not, that TI would do it. I am still using Windows XP. Does that matter? Thanks.

Mon, 08/23/2010 - 14:00
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You don't need to format the partition before you restore. TI restores the formatting as part of the restore. Partition alignment is a different matter and TI doesn't give you a "choice" to use the desired offset. TI 9 will use the standard XP offset which will result in poor performance on the SSD.

Mon, 08/23/2010 - 20:07
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MudCrab wrote:

You don't need to format the partition before you restore. TI restores the formatting as part of the restore. Partition alignment is a different matter and TI doesn't give you a "choice" to use the desired offset. TI 9 will use the standard XP offset which will result in poor performance on the SSD.

Listen to MudCrab's advice. You could lose most of the speed benefits of an SSD by screwing up the alignment.

Hopefully, the latest version 2011 has fixed this problem.

Tue, 08/24/2010 - 18:15