Question about paragon migration

[Corporate Thug]

So I've been doing my research and it appears that paragon comes highly recommended for moving an OS from a mechanical drive to an SSD.

I' about to purchase a 500gb Samsung 840. My boot drive is a 1tb Hitachi (no partitions) w/ about 375 gb of the space used.

Will paragon allow me to migrate from HDD to SDD or it is going to think that I'm trying to migrate 1tb onto a 500gb hdd (although only 375 gb is actually used)?

Thanks!

 

[Elixer]

I don't see why you would need this program.
You can just make a image of the drive, then dump it to the SSD.
Just make sure you make a dummy 1MB partition on the SSD (to align it), then you can just write the image to the SSD.

Most all good clone programs will allow you to what you ask, even the free ones.

 

[readymix]

samsung provides

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/MZ-7PD512BW

 

[Corporate Thug]

I don't see why you would need this program.
You can just make a image of the drive, then dump it to the SSD.
Just make sure you make a dummy 1MB partition on the SSD (to align it), then you can just write the image to the SSD.

Most all good clone programs will allow you to what you ask, even the free ones.

All you need to do is create a 1MB to align it? The reason I was leaning toward it is because I read the program aligns the SSD

 

[Elixer]

All you need to do is create a 1MB to align it? The reason I was leaning toward it is because I read the program aligns the SSD

It depends on the program, but yeah, that is how you do it manually with Gparted or whatever else.
[1 MB][X GB]
Most SSD aware clone programs are smart enough to start at the 1 MB offset, so you are aligned.

Check out the clone program that you will be using, like the one pointed out above, and you should be good to go.

 

[Corporate Thug]

As I suspected, ran into the size issue:



The migration tool is recognizing the whole size of the source drive, not just the data.

Anyway around this?

 

[TheELF]

Look if there is an sector by sector option that you can disable,since you are not changing any hardware though you could use any cloning software,as mentioned before.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Samsung's software is very basic so it doesn't permit sector cloning but I used Macrium Reflect and it worked flawlessly just in case anyone was curious.

 

[jhansman]

To answer the OP's question, yes, you can use it to migrate your rotational media to an SSD, so long as the amount of data does not exceed the capacity of the destination drive. I have done so twice now with no ill effects.

Product info: http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-OS-to-SSD/