ssd clone

[Crag_Hack]

Hello I am thinking about upgrading from an OCZ Vertex 2 to a Samsung 830 or Plextor M3 Pro. Can I do a clone of the data from the old to the new? Will I suffer any performance impairments if so? I currently have AHCI enabled in the BIOS and did a fresh install on my Vertex 2 when I bought it. Windows 7 installed. Anything else to know? Thanks for the help!

 

[palladium]

I'm pretty sure Samsung's Magician software can do that for you (provided you get the Samsung drive ofc). It will be slower than a fresh install, but you save time and effort reinstalling everything.

 

[Hellhammer]

Plextor M3 Pro also comes with a cloning utility. And yes, you can clone, shouldn't be any issues.

 

[ronbo613]

I am thinking about upgrading from an OCZ Vertex 2 to a Samsung 830

Just did it using Win7 Imaging Utility. If you have Win7, you're good to go. It took a little longer than I thought it would, though. Clonezilla works too.

 

[Crag_Hack]

Thanks for all the info. I'm gonna be using the tried and trusted Clonezilla. I vaguely remembering not to clone from and HDD to an SSD due to Windows not being installed with TRIM support or something like that - don't remember it was a while ago. I also remember a reg edit that you can do after cloning from HDD to SSD to solve this problem. That's the only concern I have - that after cloning I will get less performance than if I do a fresh install.

 

[Crag_Hack]

Can anybody back those things up? Will my performance be the same with a clone as opposed to a fresh install?

 

[ronbo613]

Will my performance be the same with a clone as opposed to a fresh install?

A clone is exactly what you have now. A fresh install eliminates any corrupted programming and crap accumulated over time.

 

[lakedude]

Just did this. Had to resize the partition to get it to fit the SSD and then clone it over. Tried W7 tools and Drive Image but had no luck.

GParted did the shrink and clone so easy. Only issue was SSD needed a quick bootloader fix. GParted is completely free and so are many Linux distros that include GParted. I run Puppy/FatDog-64. The entire disto is under 200MB and it is amazing. Boots from CD/DVD and loads completely to RAM so it responds very fast. Only takes a little while to download and burn.

Check out FatDog:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/iso/

 

[Crag_Hack]

Does Gparted have cloning capability?

 

[lakedude]

Does Gparted have cloning capability?

Yes, it is so simple you miss it.

You simply "copy" a partition and then "paste" it!

Watch the first 70 seconds of this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BEZJmKqxYs

 

[hhhd1]

discovered the cloning capability of gparted by accident a while back, pretty awesome, saved me allot hassle fixing a friend's computer.

 

[ronbo613]

Yes, it is so simple you miss it.

You simply "copy" a partition and then "paste" it!

Used it for the first time today to clone a partition from a larger drive to a smaller SSD, something Clonezilla will not do. Had to do a little bootloader repair and make the new partition active with DISKPART, but it worked.