Vista on SSD from HDD image?

[johnno]

Hello,

I have a pc from 2006, amd x2 6000+, gts450 and 3gb ram. It still gets quite a bit of gaming use with my kids. I have a spare OCZ Agility 3 60GB SSD. The machine currently has Vista 32 on a 50GB partition. I know I could just take a image of that partition and put it on the SSD, but would there be any issues? Would it be worth it? Would there be any alignment issues and how would I overcome those?

Thanks for any help. I've had a quick Google about and not found the answers that convince me to do it!

Cheers

 

[Elixer]

No real issues, just make a dummy 1MB partiton, (for alignment) then the rest of the space for another partition, and you can restore your image to that partition.

Done this many times.

 

[tweakboy]

Hello,

I have a pc from 2006, amd x2 6000+, gts450 and 3gb ram. It still gets quite a bit of gaming use with my kids. I have a spare OCZ Agility 3 60GB SSD. The machine currently has Vista 32 on a 50GB partition. I know I could just take a image of that partition and put it on the SSD, but would there be any issues? Would it be worth it? Would there be any alignment issues and how would I overcome those?

Thanks for any help. I've had a quick Google about and not found the answers that convince me to do it!

Cheers

No issues. Go for it

 

[johnno]

Thanks for the reply

 

[johnno]

I just formatted it in Windows and when creating a new partition the minimum size is 8mb. How do I do 1mb

 

[Sheep221]

I just formatted it in Windows and when creating a new partition the minimum size is 8mb. How do I do 1mb

do 8 megs than, vista will be fine on SSD

 

[Elixer]

I don't use windows to format things. I usually use a boot ISO, Gparted

 

[Bill Brasky]

No real issues, just make a dummy 1MB partiton, (for alignment) then the rest of the space for another partition, and you can restore your image to that partition.

Done this many times.

Can someone briefly explain why this works? I don't understand why a small dummy partition suddenly makes alignment work. hmm...

 

[Elixer]

Can someone briefly explain why this works? I don't understand why a small dummy partition suddenly makes alignment work. hmm...

It has to do with the offset the data starts at.
1024 (or multiples of it) is needed to correctly align the partition.
If you don't do this, then you get redundant read/writes, which isn't good for a SSD, and can really fubar your performance.