OK, got it, almost :)

 

My current HDD doesn't report to have 100MB partition, though I remember something from the W7 setup - Disk Director says there is only one partition, the main one.

 

To MOVE: I could just use the Clone function?

 

COPY MBR: how would I copy the MBR, not really sure about this one?

 

TRIM: fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0 should do it?

 

Hib, indexing and prefetch off - got it.

 

You should see a small system partition in the Acronis backup, and also in the Disk Manager.

I'm not sure how different ACI 2012 is from 2010, but in 2010 it would be something like this:

 

 

Notice only the System Reserved (Reservado para Sistema in spanish) partition is selected, then in the next screen you pick the destination partition, which should be the newly created 100MB partition and set to Primary & Active

 

TRIM: fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0 should do it?

 

Check again once the migration is complete, just in case

So, I checked... no, there is no 100MB partition. 100% missing. Yet all is working... quite weird.

 

 

Then I guess you only need to move the main partition and the MBR

So, to recap:

 

Backup my current parition + MBR.

Recover from that backup onto SSD, incl. MBR.

Enable TRIM. Disable that stuff...

 

That's it?

Backup my current parition + MBR.

 

yes

 

Recover from that backup onto SSD, incl. MBR.

 

You need to do this in two stages, because if you recover the entire disk image, it will transfer the format with it, and if it was not aligned, the resulting alignment will be messed up too.

So you need to format and partition the SSD in Win 7 beforehand as Win 7 will create the partition with the correct alignment.

Then you transfer each partition individually from the backup to the partition Win 7 just created in the SSD. You don't have a system partition so it's only the main one.

When all the partitions have been transfered one at a time, you move the MBR to the SSD.

Then you run the boot recovery if needed, and rename partitions as needed.

 

Check with AS-SSD the resulting partition is aligned, and check if TRIM is enabled with fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

I would anyway first create a partition on the SSD, and then recover the partition from the file onto the SSD. I wasn't thinking of letting Acronis create a partition.

But I can't just recover the files, that won't work. I need to restore the paritition with Acronis.

 

Last time I did the transfer from the 7200 disk to the WD, it all went bananas (I did have backups of everything, but still), so I hope I do it right this time.

I'm not talking about recovering individual files & folders Word Not Allowed. I'm saying avoid disk recovery and use partition recovery, one at a time.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh OK, now I got ya. I was thinking on the wrong side of the pond all the time. It was what I was thinking of doing.

So what should I get?

This is a bit TFTFM unfortunatley

Whatever your budget allows. Ssd for everything if you can afford.

 

 

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A recent WD Caviar black with high platter density or the latest Velociraptor will most likely do the job fine as a seperate FSX drive. If you want a lot more storage the 1TB Velociraptor will most likely work fine with both the OS and FSX on it. But I won't steer you away from getting a 256+GB SSD to put both the OS and FSX on if you have the money =)

A recent WD Caviar black with high platter density or the latest Velociraptor will most likely do the job fine as a seperate FSX drive. If you want a lot more storage the 1TB Velociraptor will most likely work fine with both the OS and FSX on it. But I won't steer you away from getting a 256+GB SSD to put both the OS and FSX on if you have the money =)

 

That will do me nicely, thanks heaps :)

Dannielle

OK, I got the M4 and installed it. Blazing fast. Incredible. But, here comes a but... I will have to return it

 

There are sometimes things called LIFE, and as it happens my bike died last week, it's already 17 years old, so it was allowed to die, but I wasn't expecting so sudden. I have to buy a new one now. I was planing for some time now to get a new one, just not NOW. And in one month we are doing biking tour, so I need one. And I decided if I am getting a new one, to get a decent one. Meaning 1500€ or about. If you are interested: link.

SSD right now just is NOT in the budget.

 

I will definitely get it some other time, alone for the boot time if nothing else. It went from couple of minutes until settling to about 1min or below. It's just amazing. I tried opening Photoshop and similar apps, and it's all like... right now. Here. Without delay. Love it. And so hard to part from it now...

A recent WD Caviar black with high platter density or the latest Velociraptor will most likely do the job fine as a seperate FSX drive. If you want a lot more storage the 1TB Velociraptor will most likely work fine with both the OS and FSX on it. But I won't steer you away from getting a 256+GB SSD to put both the OS and FSX on if you have the money =)

 

That's pretty much the setup I'm planning on getting, have FSX sit on a velociraptor while the OS and its programs will sit on a 128GB SSD. I will use the SSD for storage aswell until I run out of space, (but quite unlikely, my 500gb laptop dirve still have 340GB free after 2 years). where upon I will buy another drive for storage of files etc.