A good and free and so far 100% reliable application is Easeus
TodoBackup with will clone drives, backup drives to an image, restore
from an image and even mount said image as another drive letter, very
flexible and did I say free...obviously no connection to the company,
just a user as I am of Ghost, Acronis VMware etc etc
The latest is version 2 where they removed the ability to clone server
operating systems... glad I kept my V1.1 hi hi
Yes you can use the above software to clone your drive to a SSD drive,
then change the boot order or remove the old HDD
I retained my hdd as drive D but also 'moved' the c:\users folder to
drive D as a junction point/hard symLink, so the operating system
(win7-64 in my case) doesn't know any difference, therefore all the temp
files, documents, music, pictures and other clutter which resides there
isn't using up valuable IO's on the SSD
This technique of moving Users is simple but has to be followed in a
logical manner and may be different depending on your drive letters,
disk numbers;
Reboot with Win7 / Vista DVD and enter "Repair your computer" mode
Select command prompt
Identify drives. For me C:\ was the
SSD with Windows 7 and D:\ was my HDD
Then move the users directory with:
C:\> move c:\Users c:\Users.bak
Use 'diskpart' to assign the mount
point
C:\> diskpart
list disk
select disk 2 (my HDD)
select partition 1 (main partition)
assign mount=c:\users
exit
From the command prompt, copy the
user files back:
C:\> robocopy /mir /xj c:\Users.bak c:\Users
Reboot and that should be it, but keep your original HDD handy just in
case..
There are other methods to move c:\users folder,
http://serverfault.com/questions/8187/whats-the-best-way-to-move-c-users
-to-d-users-under-vista-w7 is a good source of info
Regards
Steve G6HOQ
-----Original Message-----
From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz
[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Neal Campbell
(K3NC)
Sent: 25 March 2011 16:42
To: William H. Fite; Brian Lloyd
Cc: Flex Radio
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?
Absolutely agree, keep windows, system functions and your applications
on the SSD and move your data files to the hard drive. To do this, you
can right-click on your documents folder, select Properties and then
click on the Locations tab. There you can change the location of your
documents directory. Just rename the drive letter (from C: to D: for
instance) Press Enter three times and you have moved it! If you see a
folder for 'My Music'
or 'My Pictures'. etc. right click it and see if it has a location tab
in its properties list. If so, change it!
I use Acronis True Image's disk clone to move my boot disk and have had
95 percent success with it. Keep the old disk handy though (don't erase
it after the cloining process) for a while.
73
-----Original Message-----
From: William H. Fite
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:12 PM
To: Brian Lloyd
Cc: Flex Radio
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?
My approach is similar to Brian's. I have the OS and the page files (is
that still the right term under Win7?) on a small SSD and all the
"stuff" on a couple of conventional HDDs. There is nothing to be gained
by keeping your movies and music on SSD.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Brian Lloyd
<brian-wb6...@lloyd.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Alfred Green <n...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > Is there any significant advantage to going with a SSD for Flex
> > applications?
>
>
> There is no great advantage but, having said that, my radio computer
> uses an SSD. The main advantages are speed in booting, fast read
> access, less noise, and much lower power consumption which means less
> heat in the computer enclosure which allows me to run slower/quieter
> fans.
>
> Since I only need about 6GB of storage for the radio computer I went
> looking for a deal on smaller SSDs. I was able to find a 32GB SSD for
> $110.
> Nowadays
> you might expect to get 1TB for that price but I would just end up
> with 994GB of free space anyway.
>
> WRT the limited number of write cycles, if you have a disk that is
> much larger than your usage (5x in my case) I don't really have to
> worry too much about wearing it out. If your computer is on all the
> time as mine is (I run WSPR when not making QSOs) then a spinning disk
> is only going to have a useful lifetime of 2 years anyway. Yes, I know
> they last longer but at that point I swap them out to avoid failure.
> Cheap insurance. In that case I would expect SSD to have a longer life
> than spinning disks.
>
> --
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> Cameron Park, CA 95682
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