Imaging Question From HD To SSD

[F1aw1ess]

I've got a quick question about how to tranfer the OS from my RAID Raptors to the SSD, It's Windows 7 x64 Ultimate.

I use Norton Ghost and always keep a fairly new image of the system should I need it, but I have been reading over these forums and some have said the partition gets offset (maybe wrong wording) with Acronis True Image, Impacting performance.

Am I likely to get any problems with Ghost?

I usually just chuck the recovery CD in the drive and boot from it, then choose my data drive where the image is stored and overwrite the C: drive. Once I've pulled the raptors I was going to format the new SSD as C: and transfer the image to it.

Am I likely to run into any problems?

Thanks again for your help

nb: This question is asked in an older thread but the heading didnt fit so recreated.

 

[ChileanLlama]

I doubt it will work if you're planning to use the SSD with your controller BIOS set to IDE or AHCI mode.

Your RAID0 install was setup with the RAID drivers, simply putting this installation onto your SSD will cause it to BSOD as it won't have the IDE/AHCI controllers installed.

You might be able to find a driver/registry tweak that would work, but I'd clean install.

 

[rpstewart]

It'll work as long as the SATA controller stays in RAID mode which on an Intel southbridge will run a non RAID drive in AHCI mode.

 

[F1aw1ess]

Glad I asked, If it BSOD's Ill just have to do a clean install.

Ill give it a try though if you dont think it'll do any damage to the disk and post back?