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Can I use TI 2013 to move my windows 7 installation to a SSD?

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Hi! I'm going to buy an SSD and want to transfer my current Windows 7 installation from a hardrive to the new SSD.

Will it work and will the data get aligned properly for the ssd?

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This depends on how you go about moving data to the SSD drive.

If you clone, then the SSD will have the same sector offset as your current drive, so you would need to realign your current drive before cloning. I would go the other route, make a complete disk image of the drive and restore that to the new SSD having formatted the SSD first this will force the restore to keep the new sector offset. In either case make sure you don't have the two drives connected at the same time when you reboot.

Thanks for the reply. So I will do it like this?

1. Format the new SSD in Windows 7

2. Make an image of the harddrive partion using TI.

3. Disconnect the cable to the harddrive where windows 7 is installed.

4. Restoring the image to the new SSD using TI.

JB,

#2 - make a complete disk image - a partition image won't necessarily contain the MBR or Active marker.

Make sure your recovery CD will boot your PC and can see your drives.

Thank you very much. Could I also do this with an older version of acronis? Right know I have Acronis trueimage 2010.

I'm not sure if 2010 would keep the new sector offset, I have a feeling that must have build 7046 or later.

With 2010, you can't precisely select 1MB as the offset for the first partition. Prepartionning with diskpart is the only way. Aside from that, to restore to an SSD, follow this procedure:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/34509#comment-106890

I used a SSD migration tool provided with the Intel SSD I bought. The migration worked and I can boot windows from the new disk but how do I check if it's properly aligned?

Use msinfo32.exe
Look at components, hardware, disks
Search for your system disk. It will list each partition towards the end of the paragraph. For each partition you will see an offset number expressed in bytes. If this number is divisible by 4096 for each partition, your SSD is aligned.

Look at the end of this post to tweak your system for your SSD http://forum.acronis.com/forum/34509#comment-106890