Upgrade from SATA II SSD to SATA III SSD - Easy?

rocketman · 4 Mar 2010 at 17:08

So I am tempted to upgrade my Crucial M225 256GB to a Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB. I own a copy of Acronis TI 2010, so would I be able to just clone the partition over, without reinstalling Windows 7 and my programs? :confused:

Many thanks in advance

Phunky Phish · 4 Mar 2010 at 17:22

In theory, yes!

rocketman · 4 Mar 2010 at 18:16

Has anyone actually done this? Really don't want the hassle of reinstalling

kevintaper · 4 Mar 2010 at 20:18

yup i would like to know that aswell cloning windows 7 of seagate 1tb 7200.11, on to a ssd??

Da[]San · 4 Mar 2010 at 21:23

Make sure when you clone the drive it includes the bootmgr
*windows sometimes installs this were you least expect it*

Made that mistake and spent hours trying to recover a non booting system.

rocketman · 4 Mar 2010 at 21:59

Da[]San;16090706 said:
Make sure when you clone the drive it includes the bootmgr
*windows sometimes installs this were you least expect it*

Made that mistake and spent hours trying to recover a non booting system.

Thanks for the advice Da[]San

Culinia · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:00

rocketman said:
Has anyone actually done this? Really don't want the hassle of reinstalling

I know what you mean.
Takes like a day to have everything set up just the way I like it with all programs/updates etc.

Da[]San · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:11

What you may find is that windows has a 200mb hidden partition, if that is the case make sure you image this too, this includes the WinRE windows recovery environment.

rocketman · 4 Mar 2010 at 23:45

Da[]San;16091092 said:
What you may find is that windows has a 200mb hidden partition, if that is the case make sure you image this too, this includes the WinRE windows recovery environment.

Yeah there is a unassigned partition on the drive. I'm just gonna do a complete drive image, as both drives are 256gb. This should be the easiest, most hassle-free way right? :confused:

Da[]San · 5 Mar 2010 at 01:10

Yes that should do it.

mrochester · 5 Mar 2010 at 15:53

I'm interested to know this too since I've just bought a C300!

rocketman · 9 Mar 2010 at 20:45

Well I've done it. Using Acronis, I did a straight clone of the drive, with no problems at all. However I do have one query, I have set the SATA mode in my BIOS to AHCI, the computer is using a Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller. Is the TRIM command being passed on to the drive, or is there any way of finding out?

jakspyder · 10 Mar 2010 at 04:05

that damn C300 makes my little old M225 look like junk

already tempted try and upgrade lol.

littlescrimbler · 10 Mar 2010 at 07:31

wow, some people have some serious £$£$£ to chuck around. Most envious!

jakspyder · 10 Mar 2010 at 11:56

nawh not serious cash, just give up food, heating, designer labels and any other nice things like that. its all over rated. bread for toast and tea bags for tea. save the rest of the money for pc parts

it works honest.