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I just ordered an Intel 320 (Boxing Day sale on newegg.ca) and I can't wait for that bad boy to arrive. I was worried about having to reinstall my OS, but after paging through the thread it looks like that won't be much of a concern.
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drat it. I got my SSD installed earlier, and Windows recognizes it, but I've hit a bit of a problem. My boot partition is a fragment of a 1 TB drive (about sixty gigs in size), and the stripped down copy of Acronis that came with the drive only copies entire drives. I looked into Clonezilla, but noticed that there seemed to only be partition to partition and drive to drive cloning options, and I'm hesitant about fiddling with that. Am I misreading that, or will I need to reinstall Windows completely on the SSD, or copy the other boot drive partitions to another hard drive temporarily?
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Dec 30, 2011 01:51
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DNova posted:Set up exactly equivalent (and properly aligned) partitions on the new SSD, then use Clonezilla to copy from partition to partition for all relevant partitions (should be 2 if you use Win7). Thanks a lot for the help. SSDs and partition alignments are completely new to me. I've poked around and discovered that there isn't a System Reserved partition on any of my drives, which apparently isn't unheard-of. Should I make sure to include one, manually? Similarly, the partition offset on my current Windows partition is 32,256, which seems atypical for a disk partitioned by Windows 7 from what I've read today. That isn't an issue, I hope? Since my setup seems kind of oddball, and I was intending to use the SSD as one large partition, I think I'm probably best served using dd to copy things over. I'm going to take a wild guess that I should burn a copy of Knoppix or the like to CD, and not use this Windows-equivalent I found on the 'net.
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Dec 30, 2011 04:26
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DNova posted:32,256 is bad. (It is not evenly divisible by 4,096). I don't really know what the deal is with fixing that. I ended up following this Lifehacker tutorial for shifting my partition offset. It's probably kludgy, but it worked. I ended up having to create a MBR on the SSD manually, since the Linux boot disc I made didn't have dd, and the Windows install disc I burned (legally-- I got the OS through MS's student promos, and the cheapasses at Digitalriver only gave me an ISO to play with) kept having trouble. Reassigning drive letters was another adventure, but I got through that too. Now to copy the little programs I run every boot over onto the new root drive. Thanks a lot again, DNova. I really appreciate it.
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Dec 30, 2011 21:18
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My Intel 320 120GB drive runs like lightning from my perspective, but apparently my benchmarks are about half of what they should be: I've got AHCI enabled in the OS and BIOS, and the drive is hooked up through a SATA 3 connector on the motherboard. The motherboard itself is a GA 770TA-UD3 with 4 GB of RAM and an AMD X3 435 processor, if those might have any bearing on things.
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