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Yesterday was a mess of trouble for me. I wanted to use a benign test utility on my boot drive. The boot drive is the accelerated HDD component in an ISRT configuration. It seemed obvious that I needed to "unhinge" the HDD from caching, which is a pretty routine operation I've performed many times. But I was in a hurry; didn't wait for the IRST software to confirm finishing what it was doing -- didn't re-initialize the caching SSD.
At boot-up, the HDD failed to boot. It was a 600GB WD VelociRaptor. I won't go through the anxieties I went through, but all is well now. However, the WD VR drive has temporarily been replaced by a 1TB Samsung F3. This is a waste of good disk space, and the F3 serves better as a backup disk for my server.
I'm on the verge of ditching the ISRT arrangement. It had worked fine for the last three years with the same two components. I have now rescued the VR -- which apparently never completed the transition from "RAID" to "non-RAID." This we very easily fixed by another Win 7 machine, and the drive is again serviceable.
So leaving the VR out of the equation, I want to clone the Samsung boot drive to a 500GB Samsung 840 Pro. It's been sitting here . . . waiting to be used . . . for a bit too long.
I have a bootable media Disk Director 11 installation which had served me well since early 2012. I need to know if this will work properly to replace my current HDD boot drive with a Samsung 840 -- that is -- if the cloning operation will leave me satisfied and without further trouble.
At boot-up, the HDD failed to boot. It was a 600GB WD VelociRaptor. I won't go through the anxieties I went through, but all is well now. However, the WD VR drive has temporarily been replaced by a 1TB Samsung F3. This is a waste of good disk space, and the F3 serves better as a backup disk for my server.
I'm on the verge of ditching the ISRT arrangement. It had worked fine for the last three years with the same two components. I have now rescued the VR -- which apparently never completed the transition from "RAID" to "non-RAID." This we very easily fixed by another Win 7 machine, and the drive is again serviceable.
So leaving the VR out of the equation, I want to clone the Samsung boot drive to a 500GB Samsung 840 Pro. It's been sitting here . . . waiting to be used . . . for a bit too long.
I have a bootable media Disk Director 11 installation which had served me well since early 2012. I need to know if this will work properly to replace my current HDD boot drive with a Samsung 840 -- that is -- if the cloning operation will leave me satisfied and without further trouble.