This SSD is slick! Tiny thing, too.
I just hate to take my system down to install it.
Do you guys use and trust Windows Easy Transfer?
Greg Sevart wrote:
It'd waste a lot of time copying empty sectors, but there should be no harm
in doing so. One benefit is that it will maintain partition alignment, which
AFAIK Ghost doesn't do, and Acronis requires special steps (use volume mode
in two steps instead of disk mode)--unless you also put these into
sector-by-sector mode. Alignment isn't important on single or mirrored
magnetic drives, but is fairly important when working with any striped RAID
or SSD. Supposedly Acronis is working on changing the out-of-date 63-sector
offset default, but who knows when that'll be implemented.
You can install RTM over the RC, but you have to modify a file and re-burn
the disc (or use a USB drive) to do so.
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/04/07/delivering-a-quality-upgrade-exp
erience.aspx
-----Original Message-----
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of JRS
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 10:47 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] SSD Time.............
Well, the program still goes thru the HD's controller, so hopefully should
be fine...
Mine came out great, it was a dual boot system before and the new drive came
out just the same, with everything working as it should, just a
lot faster.. :)
--
JRS
stei...@pacbell.net
Facts do not cease to exist just
because they are ignored.
----- Original Message ----
From: Bryan Seitz <se...@bsd-unix.net>
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Mon, December 28, 2009 8:15:37 AM
Subject: Re: [H] SSD Time.............
Might not be a great idea from magnetic to SSD, but not sure.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:00:02AM -0800, JRS wrote:
I used this freeware sector by sector copy program...............
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/
I found out the hard way when I tried to copy mine that the Symantec
Ghost I
had would not work, nor would the various versions I had on some Bart and
Win PE
disks and such.. For some reason the source drive (my VelociRaptor) was
grayed
out and could not be selected.
This easeUS freebie worked great, even when I was using an external USB
drive
to copy too.
It's a small 35 meg ISO that builds a boot CD, and has a nice easy GUI
to
use...
