Cloning and Solid State question

N43SP33D · 21 Feb 2010 at 16:34

Hey guys,
I have 2 80GB Sata hard drives on a RAID 0 at the moment. I made a image of this using active boot disk after installing all my apps that i need etc. . . I am planning to buying a Solid State Drive from here, would i be able to put my cloned image onto this new disk? Or would it cause problems?

master811 · 21 Feb 2010 at 18:04

In theory yes, would be just like cloning any other drive. Which OS would you be using, Vista/7 should just pickup new drives pretty well (incl Raid).

N43SP33D · 21 Feb 2010 at 18:59

Its windows 7, i thought that because the original clone is from a Raid 0 it might have been written differently when cloned...and that when cloning onto a non raided SSD it might work different?

master811 · 21 Feb 2010 at 19:15

As far as I'm aware, that shouldn't make a difference. Windows still only 'sees' the Raid as one physical drive, so everything should just be as normal.

Having said that Win 7 doesn't really take too long to install (at least compared to XP) and should very quick on an SSD, so if you have time, may be worth doing it anyway.

N43SP33D · 21 Feb 2010 at 19:20

I have a nice clean image of it, i just wanted to be sure that i wont **** it up by cloning it. But your right, it will be nice to see how fast things install ;-)

DaGooN · 22 Feb 2010 at 21:32

when i cloned my win7 64 bit from my HDD to SSD, i had to Fix the alignment on the SSD. as AS SSD reoproted it as BAD

also had a issue with UDMA Mode.

all fixed now though. with a lil help posted here.

How-to-setup-aligned-partitions-using-USB

VortexA1 · 22 Feb 2010 at 23:39

Well on the Acronis forums according to them if you use Acronis;your alignment will be fine.