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Question

cloning/migrating win7 os and drivers to ssd

Nov 30, 2011 12:50PM PST

Hello there. newbie to upgrading computers. i currently own an HP m9400f that had vista upgraded to win7 & its gpu upgraded to a radeon hd 6770 before my brother gave it to me.

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Ouch.
Nov 30, 2011 1:08PM PST

Well, Acronis is good and since it is a clone job you don't lose the original.

Just follow the directions.
Bob

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PS. Just last month a similar move.
Dec 1, 2011 4:47AM PST

Armed with the new drive and the maker's supplied Acronis the move was painless. Yes it took hours but it ran to completion and after the drive swap, the system came up.

AMAZING side note. Even the laptop's factory restore survived. Good stuff.
Bob

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You might want to check into something
Nov 30, 2011 7:37PM PST

I'd been considering the possible merits of trying an SSD and using Acronis to clone my WD 10000 RPM drive to such. My Acronis version is 2010, BTW. Some reading I've done speaks of partition alignment issues that could occur which would result in disappointing performance and the recommendation is to do a clean install and let Win7 deal with the alignment. It may be that the newest Acronis version handles SSD drives better but I can't speak to that. Of course any new version will be touted as being far better than the previous. I like Acronis but will hold of migrating to SSD using a cloning method until I can understand some of the published pitfalls of doing so this way.