Warning to others migrating your OS to a SSD

Started 5 months ago | Discussion thread
Sean Nelson
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Re: Migrating from HDD to SSD is not recovery
In reply to Chris Noble, 5 months ago

Chris Noble wrote:

Recovery programs are designed to recover the state of the source drive back to itself. I am sure that some of them can be used sometimes to migrate disk contents to a different type of disk, but that is not their purpose so you are taking a risk.

I remember the old days when you had to gen a system to support specific disk types that had different track capacities, cylinders and heads.   Fortunately those days are long since gone.  The beauty of modern drives, no matter what kind of device they are, is that they now present themselves to the system as a simple numbered collection of logical blocks.   As long as the block size is correct and the target volume has at least as many blocks as the original volume had, there's no reason why a recovery program shouldn't be able to do a successful restore.

Aside from the block size, the biggest gotcha is partition alignment, but that won't stop it from working, it'll just give you very bad performance.   And if you're coming from a volume that was formatted under Vista or later it shouldn't be an issue.

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