clone win 7
Hi, I made inquiries here yesterday about cloning by usb, and must again say thank you. I have 1 more question and then ill go away. Im going from a 1TB to a2TB windows 7 boot drive. Because this was a brand new w7 install on the hard drive, I have a 100mb boot partition. I am going to use manual partition size when cloning, so do I leave the old boot partition exactly the same size as it was (100MB) or should it be any different. I apologize if this is a microsoft question but Ill ask it here anyway?
Hi, and thanks again for the reply. Yes I will leave the 100MB partition as is, but what is "1 MB OFFSET" When I look at disk management in windows there is 2 partitions on the physical drive
100MB "SYSTEM" & a 931gb "BOOT" partition. What is the offset????
Sorry if this is stupid question?
The offset is a small space between the beginning ot the disk and the beginning of the first partition. You can check this offset by launching msinfo32.exe, components, hardware, disks. At the end of each paragraph for each partition, you will see the offset.
With an offset of 1MB you disk is aligned. Not that important for regular spin disks, but important for RAID arrays and very important for SSDs.
When you clone manually, you will see the offset to the left, ie before, the system reserved partition, when ATI will display the disk layout.
The offset is a small space between the beginning ot the disk and the beginning of the first partition. You can check this offset by launching msinfo32.exe, components, hardware, disks. At the end of each paragraph for each partition, you will see the offset.
With an offset of 1MB you disk is aligned. Not that important for regular spin disks, but important for RAID arrays and very important for SSDs.
When you clone manually, you will see the offset to the left, ie before, the system reserved partition, when ATI will display the disk layout.
The offset is a small space between the beginning ot the disk and the beginning of the first partition. You can check this offset by launching msinfo32.exe, components, hardware, disks. At the end of each paragraph for each partition, you will see the offset.
With an offset of 1MB you disk is aligned. Not that important for regular spin disks, but important for RAID arrays and very important for SSDs.
When you clone manually, you will see the offset to the left, ie before, the system reserved partition, when ATI will display the disk layout.
Yes I see it, and its the same on my newly installed bigger D drive, which I simply formatted and copied some stuff from the old smaller D drive. So I guess its a automatic function of partitioning, as all I did to make the disc active was to allow the largest partition for the disc and format it???
If you have data on the disk you want to clone *to*, this data will be lost. To avoid this, use a disk and partition backup of each partition of your older disk, and restore each partition on the new disk. Just make sure that the system reserved partition is marked primary, active when you restore it.
Restore each partition, restore the MBR+track0 *only* if your destination disk does *not* contain any other partition than the ones you have restored.
Yes, offset veryyyyyyyyy important on ssd's. If they are not PERFECT, you can wear out your drive faster and make it perform half the speed it can. But even half speed is faster than platters.