I'm in the process of swapping out an HDD boot drive for a new Crucial M4 SSD, and discovered that a 100MB partition I created for "system reserved" files got squeezed down to 79MB by the Acronis cloning software I used. The SSD booted just fine with the smaller partition, and my offset is set to the recommended 1024. Is there any reason I need to be worried about a system reserved partition that isn't exactly 100MB?
Thanks.
My Computer
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Windows 7 Home 64bitIntel Core i7-2600K16GB CORSAIR Vengeance DDR3 RAMMSI Twin Frozr II Radeon HD 6870
OS
Windows 7 Home 64bit
CPU
Intel Core i7-2600K
Motherboard
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO
Memory
16GB CORSAIR Vengeance DDR3 RAM
Graphics Card(s)
MSI Twin Frozr II Radeon HD 6870
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Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic
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ASUS VE276Q
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Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 SSD /
Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX
No reason to worry. There is plenty of free space on the little system partition. It may only get tight when you make a double boot.
I am amazed that the Acronis tool even allocated the little system partition. The Paragon migration tool eliminates it and moves the bootmgr to C:
The M4 looks good. Just today I installed an M4 on my new system. But I have not yet wired it up (maybe tomorrow). Once running, I will compare with your nums. The 4K nums seem to be a bit low. The Vertex2 on my laptop is faster. But those are only nums anyhow.
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Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8from 1.6GHz Duo to i7
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HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops