SSD alignment question for Acronis True Image Home 2012
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
I have a OCZ Agility 3 120 GB SSD drive
I am replacing that with a OCZ Agility 4 256 GB SSD drive for more storage
I installed everything new on the 1st drive but don't want to have to do that all over again for the new drive.
I keep hearing about problems with drive alignment
Can I use Acronis True Image Home 2012 to create a image, then restore it to the new bigger SSD and have the alignment be set properly?
Thanks
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Anthony,
Although 2012 should be able to ensure disk alignment, you could follow the instructions here to ensure it yourself:
- Use Windows disk management to verify that the active partition is on the system disk (right click on the computer icon on your desktop, choose manage, storage, disk management)
- Print a screen shot of the disk management console for future reference
- Do a full backup of your current disk. Include all partitions, even the hidden ones (no need to use the sector by sector setting)
- Put your new SSD at the same spot at your current disk. Remove your current disk from the computer for the time being.
- Boot your computer on the Acronis recovery CD
- Restore each partition at a time in the same order they were laid out (use your screen shot). This will allow to control resizing and offset to align the disk
- Leave a 1MB space before the first partition (maybe system reserved?)
- Mark the correct partition active (maybe system reserved?)
- Leave the drive letter change option alone
- Do not resize any partition except the C:\system partition or any partition you created and want on the SSD
- Make sure that each partition has a size that is a whole number of MB (doesn't matter for the last partition)
- No need to reboot inbetween partition restores
- After the last partition, restore the MBR+track0 and the disk signature
That's it.
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