Migrating from HDD to SSD
Need a advise when migrating from a HDD to SSD.
Current Set Up:
Laptop HP Compaq Presario CQ56-115dx (Purchased in 2011)
OS Widows 7 sp1 Home Premium
MB Hewlett-Packard 1604 88.17
Chip ATI™ RS880M / Southbridge - SB820
BIOS HP F.18 04/18/2011
CPU AMD V Series V140 Single Core, Socket S1, 2.3GHz, 1.6GHz Bus, .512MB L2
Mem 2GB 1333mhz DDR3
HDD Seagate MomentusXT 750GB 7200RPM SATA (very noisy)
Upgrading to:
CPU AMD Phenom II N660 Dual Core, Socket S1, 3GHz, 1.8GHz Bus, .2MB L2
Mem 8GB 1333mhz DDR3
SSD Kingston 240GB SV300S37A
I have Acronis True Image 2014 Premium and have made a successfull 'full' (all partitions) back up to my WD My Book Live NAS. Back up was a Version Chain Scheme - Partition mode. True Image indicated I
had 4 partitions on my HHD:
.1 of 1.3GB NTFS for System
.1 of .1GB FAT 32 for HP_Tools
13.8 of 48.2GB NTFS for Recovery
85.7 of 649GB NTFS for Local Disk(C)
In reading the True Image manual it said if I only had 1 partiion not incuding the system partition I could do a clone, but since there was the HP Tools (used for bios flashing) and the Recovery I went with the full back up choice for migrating.
I have successfully installed the new CPU and memory, reinstalled the old HDD to test and out worked out the kinks so that the OS operates with the new changes. All thats left is the SSD. Now, I know I should do another new Full Backup before migrating to the SSD. The True Image manual says to "Create the backup you are going to use for migration in disk mode. In other words, back up the source disk entirely, not just the system partition". Does that also mean I need to choose Sector to Sector in the back up options? I also noticed the default disk mode only backs up the local and system partitions unless you check all four partitions before going to disk mode. I should do that right?
