Drive Imaging with an SSD?

[SirRob]

I am looking to image my new hard drive, but it is an SSD. I have read many times that SSD's cannot or should not be imaged. Is this true?

 

[zuffy]

False. I have done it many times. If you are worrying about disk alignment, that problem can easily be solved. What I do is use Acronis True Image 2010 and backup the drive to an image. Then, I would create the correct disk alignment for the SSD. Boot from Acronis disk and select recovery. Instead of recovering the whole disk from the image, select just the C drive and point it to the SSD partition you created. Make it active partition and you are set.

 

[SirRob]

I see. Thanks!

Just for clarification, I will be creating the image from my current SSD and will restore the image to the same SSD later.

 

[zuffy]

That will not be an issue. What you backup is what you are going to get when you recover.

 

[jkroeder]

they can be imaged just fine. But I've seen posts by OCZ forum moderators advising against it and recommending full reinstalls instead so that TRIM can work properly. Now whether it's true in practice, I'm not sure.

 

[COPOHawk]

I have a hard time seeing where the OCZ forum mods are coming from. If you create an image of an SSD that is properly "aligned" and then go to restore the exact entire image...how is there a problem?

I use Ghost and it works just fine in Win 7 with my Intel G2 80GB...

 

[Brian Stirling]

Then, I would create the correct disk alignment for the SSD.

How do you create the correct disk alignment for the SSD?


Brian

 

[darkequitus]

How do you create the correct disk alignment for the SSD?


Brian

Use Windows 7 Disk Management from the control panel. IF you delete the partition from the SSD then create a new one, it will be aligned to 1024K.

Or use disk part.

1. Type CMD from start menu and right click to run as administrator.
Type the following:
diskpart
list disk
select disk X (X=the number pointing to SSD)
clean
create partition primary align=1024
active
format fs=ntfs quick
exit