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Preparing SDD for HDD migration via cloning
I have order and will shortly take delivery of a new 256GB Crucial SSD
This will replace my laptop HDD and hopefully speed certain operations up considering. I have have an HP G6 Pavilion
From what I understand as I not going to be doing a fresh win install (and will instead be cloning) I will need to align the SDD??? I had planned to use Acronis.
If i do need to aligh the SDD then I believe I need to used the DISKPART utility however I am not exactly the steps required as I currently have 4 partitions on my existing HDD
Partition 1 System - Active - 200MB
Partition 2 C:\ 223 GB (only 80GB used)
Partition 3 HP_Tools 4GB
Partition 4 Recovery 20GB
All are marked as Primary partition. All are marked as NTFS except HP_Tools which is FAT32.
Do I create 4 partition then on the new SSD?
Also similar to the above do i mark the system partition as active?
Are these the instructions that I need to run?
Diskpart
List disk
Select disk n (where n is the number that was given for your SSD in List disk)
Clean
Create partition primary size=200 align=1024
Format fs=ntfs quick
Active (assuming you want to install an OS)
Create partition primary size=(256000-200-4000-20000) align=1024
Format fs=ntfs quick
Create partition primary size=4000 align=1024
Format fs=fat32 quick (can / should I change this to ntfs??)
Create partition primary size=20000 align=1024
Format fs=ntfs quick
Exit
Any help would be much appreciated.
Simon