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

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  1. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #51

    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
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  2. Posts : 42
    Windos 7 Pro 32 bit, Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
    Thread Starter
       #52

    whs said:
    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
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  3. Posts : 42
    Windos 7 Pro 32 bit, Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
    Thread Starter
       #53

    I ran the windows experience but it seems to still show my ssd partitions in windows defragger.
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  4. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #54

    chobo2 said:
    whs said:
    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
    Perfect.
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  5. mjf
    Posts : 5,969
    Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1
       #55

    ditto.
    In Disk Defragmenter > Configure schedule > select disks
    Your SSD partitions should not appear. Then you are ok.
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  6. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
       #56

    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.
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  7. Posts : 22
    Windows 7 Pro
       #57

    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.
    Last edited by swbca; 22 Apr 2012 at 22:53. Reason: spelling
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  8. Posts : 42
    Windos 7 Pro 32 bit, Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
    Thread Starter
       #58

    karlsnooks said:
    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.
    Sorry can your re-link to that tutorial. So what your saying is you have one profile for both partitions?
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  9. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
       #59

    See post #33
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