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Transferring Windows HD boot conventional drive to SSD

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I have the newest version TI home just released version 7133 build 2.1.
It also has the newest Acronis Plus Pak installed as well.

Is there a specific procedure to make a new SSD become the windows boot drive c or just connect the SSD to the appropriate sata port and have Acronis 2012 clone over, then remove the previous windows loaded drive?

The existing c drive is a western digital black about 500gb.
Will Windows activation be necessary?

This newest version of Acronis is running much better as well.

Thank you

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John,
If you have an external disk for your backups, your best bet is to do a full disk backup of your existing 500GB drive to your external drive with ATIH 2012, and then install only the SSD into your system. Use your Recovery disk or USB stick, and then restore your full disk image to the SSD. You can then install the old drive and reformat/repartition it as necessary for future use.
As an alternative, you can install the new SSD into your system on the primary SATA port, and move your 500GB drive to your secondary SATA port, then boot your system to the Recovery disk or USB stick, and perform a clone from the old drive to the new drive. Be sure to pay attention to the drive letters assigned while in the Recovery environment, as they will be different then in Windows. If you clone your new drive to your old drive by mistake, you will end up with two blank drives. Be sure to remove the old drive before booting the system. It can be added back later after verifing everything works, and then can be repartitioned, reformatted, etc. for future use.

John,
You didn't mention how much space you are using on your exisiting drive, or the capacity of your new SSD. I was assuming in my post that you had enough room on the SSD to restore the entire full disk backup to the SSD.

James:

I am using 55 gb on a 500 gb wd black drive

I plan to go onto a 120 GB SSD.

You should be able to be successful with that setup. Hope it goes smoothly for you.

John,
Definitely go down the path of doing a disk and partition backup, this will ensure you have proper disk alignment on the SSD, a critical performance enabler.

- Use Windows disk management to verify that the active partition is on the system disk,

- Print a screen shot of the disk management console for future reference,

- Uninstall any program you don't want on the SSD (eg: games, ). You can leave content and move it later out of the SSD.

- 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 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.

Reboot on your new SSD. Then, if you want to use your old disk, put it back in the computer, reboot. Delete whatever you want, etc.
You have some tweaks to optimize your SSD:
- disable automatic defragmentation of that disk
- disable superfetch service for Vista and Windows 7, disable prefetch service for XP
- leave the page file on the SSD
- in indexing options, disable indexing of the SSD content (not a big deal)
- verify that TRIM is activated http://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/14/verify-that-trim-is-enabled-in-windows…

Thanks Pat, for your much more insightful post.

I was able to complete the task successfully via clone method to the new SSD

Intel Toolbox show all is well.

I installed the new SSD drive, checked for it in disc management etc first, made sure Acronis had it in its system

I had the computer shut down on clone completion, removed the "old" hd and then restarted and system booted immediately to the new SSD
,did the tweaks.

Run msinfo32.exe, go to components, storage, disks. Verify that the offset of each partition is divisible by 4096.

Run msinfo32.exe, go to components, storage, disks. Verify that the offset of each partition is divisible by 4096.

I went to partition starting offset item..and divided ...yes I get a whole number NOT a decimal

Perfect. Your disk is aligned. Enjoy!

Thanks for the help.
I wanted to see if the newest version of TI 2012 from July a few days ago would do the clone successfully.
It did.