Windows 7: How to Clone a Windows 7 Partition to a new Hard Drive?

Are you sure it is an alignment problem. When you do a fresh install of Windows 7, the installer does align the partitions. See in the VERIFICATION section of my tutorial how to check the alignment. If you have a 100MB system partition, only that has to be aligned, the rest follows.

If there is an alignment problem, you can apply this fix: SSD - Fix Misalignment

This is what I get. From my understanding it is good

Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 58 GB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Primary 99 GB 58 GB

I ran the windows experience but it seems to still show my ssd partitions in windows defragger.

Perfect.

ditto.
In Disk Defragmenter > Configure schedule > select disks
Your SSD partitions should not appear. Then you are ok.

chobo,

All programs should be installed to your C drive, regardless of work or personal. Just simply forget that designation.

From the disk management, you are presently booting from your SSD which contains the C drive.

Do not worry about alignment. Win 7 has correctly aligned the partitions on your SSD.

Do not worry about defrag. You can defrag an SSD. I do NOT recommend such, but you can do it.

Did you read the tutorial to which I linked which explained relocating your profile folders? On my system, I've relocated Documents, Music, Videos and Pictures to my D which is also a partition on my SSD.

Partitions, fractionalized like you have done on your hard drive is a hang over from the XP days.

There is a Performance Issue when tranferring Image from SSD to Disk too.

I had finished an all new-install on a new Thinkpad T410s with an SSD drive. But the screen resolution on this notebook was too high for my eyes so I gave it to my wife. I moved the SSD image to another Thinkpad with a standared SATA drive and the disk performance was terrible. Using a stop watch, the computer took twice a long to boot and twice as long to load any program compared to this or any other Thinkpads with standard SATA or IDE disks.

Sorry can your re-link to that tutorial. So what your saying is you have one profile for both partitions?

See post #33