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chobo,
My last post related to alignment was directed at a dissenter. Please forgive any confusion.
Define for me, perhaps by example, what you mean by "work partition' and "personal partition".
As a warm-up for consequential recommendations,
take a look at:
User Folders - Change Default Location
I'm not a big music, video or pic collector. My SSD (128 GB) is divided into 3 partitions (the third is new and for experimental purposes). There is what I call a System partition with Win 7 and all programs. There is a Data partition. To this Data partition, I've placed the majority of my user folders.
I would prefer if we talked about 'imaging' in this context. 'Cloning' has a special meaning that does not apply here.
You can image the C partition by itself with Windows imaging provided it contains the bootmgr and no system files reside on other partitions. If, however, your bootmgr resides on a seperate active 100MB partition, that will automatically be imaged too. That makes sense because after a restore you need that partition too.
Some 3d party imaging programs align partitions automatically (if you do it right). Here is the Macrium example: Reflect_v5 (look under Advanced Topics). And I believe that Paragon can do that too. Not sure about Windows imaging. Karlsnooks may know.
Good point. and Yes, as explained in the article for which I provided a link, Windows 7 correctly handles alignment.