BonzaiDuck
Lifer
BACKGROUND : I successfully cloned my boot HDD to an 840-Pro a few days ago. I then discovered that the workstation's boot drive was no longer being "successfully" backed up on my WHS 2011 server. I began troubleshooting this, even as Samsung Magician had made some "changes" right under my nose.
With choices in Magician, it is easy to totally disable Windows Backup -- locally. The problem with the WHS backup seems related to the size of the "System Reserved" volume.
When I made the clone, I used proportional resizing, so the System Reserved volume decreased from 120MB to 60MB. At the same time, letting Magician over-provision the SSD took nearly 48GB away from useable space -- although "Disk Management" shows that space as "unallocated."
I think I can reduce over-provisioning to maybe 30GB, and compensate even more by shrinking the "C:" volume.
However, I'm clueless as to whether I can increase the System Reserved volume size, if the process ("Computer Management->Disk Management") doesn't "move" the "C:" volume in the process -- shifting it by enough to expand the System Reserved."
I can't make mistakes with this and cost myself more time. I DO have the HDD from which I cloned the SSD simple partition.
Any thoughts? Can I do this? Best steps to follow? I'd think the first thing to do would be to change the over-partitioning. the next step would be to shrink the "C:" volume slightly. But the third step -- I'm not sure that it can be done.
UPDATE: Like Hannibal Lector tells the little Chinese boy in the "Hannibal" sequel: "My mother always taught me to try new things . . . "
Wow, Man! Both Acronis Disk Director Update 2 and Samsung Magician have brains!!
ACRONIS: Resize/Move main C: primary volume; leave unallocated space between System Reserved and C:; resize System Reserved; reboot; VOILA!
MAGICIAN: Choose "Custom" overprovisioning and tweak the percentage. DONE!
Flippin' . . . . A-MAY-ZING!!
With choices in Magician, it is easy to totally disable Windows Backup -- locally. The problem with the WHS backup seems related to the size of the "System Reserved" volume.
When I made the clone, I used proportional resizing, so the System Reserved volume decreased from 120MB to 60MB. At the same time, letting Magician over-provision the SSD took nearly 48GB away from useable space -- although "Disk Management" shows that space as "unallocated."
I think I can reduce over-provisioning to maybe 30GB, and compensate even more by shrinking the "C:" volume.
However, I'm clueless as to whether I can increase the System Reserved volume size, if the process ("Computer Management->Disk Management") doesn't "move" the "C:" volume in the process -- shifting it by enough to expand the System Reserved."
I can't make mistakes with this and cost myself more time. I DO have the HDD from which I cloned the SSD simple partition.
Any thoughts? Can I do this? Best steps to follow? I'd think the first thing to do would be to change the over-partitioning. the next step would be to shrink the "C:" volume slightly. But the third step -- I'm not sure that it can be done.
UPDATE: Like Hannibal Lector tells the little Chinese boy in the "Hannibal" sequel: "My mother always taught me to try new things . . . "
Wow, Man! Both Acronis Disk Director Update 2 and Samsung Magician have brains!!
ACRONIS: Resize/Move main C: primary volume; leave unallocated space between System Reserved and C:; resize System Reserved; reboot; VOILA!
MAGICIAN: Choose "Custom" overprovisioning and tweak the percentage. DONE!
Flippin' . . . . A-MAY-ZING!!
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