Cloning Win7 from HD to SSD. Align question.
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I need to transfer Windows 7 (120GB) and his 100 Mb boot partition to a new SSD.
I suppose that cloning the boot partition, the Windows partition (with Clonezilla), and restoring the boot with Win7 installation CD will do the trick.
The problem is that SSD are sensible to misaligned partitions, not only because of performance, but also from extra wearing on misaligned partitions.
I know that many new Linux distributions automatically manages SSD alignment correctly.
Do Clonezilla automatically align SSD partitions in 64 sector instead of 63? Or just clone the original HD partition (inappropriate for SSD)
Is necessary/possible to do something special to get correctly aligned partitions?
"Does Clonezilla automatically align SSD partitions in 64 sector instead of 63? " -> Actually Clonezilla will "clone" the source disk to the destination one. Therefore in your case, you have to deal with the partition table by yourself.
Steven.