840 evo cloned but issues RE:over provisioning

I have recently purchased a 1tb evo....basically for the power draw, and performance...anyhow, I cloned data off my dell oem liteon 512 and everything is as it should be except the over provisioning

I had 3 partitions on the liteon (a dell utility sector, a recovery partition and then the main partition), I deleted the recovery partition (as I have DVD and USB backup of the win7) and left the dell utility section, but no matter how much I try I cannot create a proper OP/un allocated section at the end of the drive (as Samsung magician has done so on the 840pro)

After a lot of hassle (and thanks to mini tool partition) I was able to wrench some un-allocated space from the beginning of the drive, as that is the only place the program (samsung magician) will create the OP partition

My question is

Is this detrimental (the OP partition being in the beginning of the storage partition)
Is there a way that during the cloning process I could create an un allocated partition for samsungs prog to recognise. (The cloning or disk programs I have are easeus,mini tool part. And acronis )

Thank you....

PS I am only going to keep about 5% of the evo as OP, as my drive will prolly never see 100%utilization

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You may want to check that the drive is properly aligned.

Also; is this the mSATA EVO or the 2.5" model? If it is the mSATA version; you do not currently have a working TRIM command on that device.

5% OP'ing, when you want performance, does not compute.

Still recommend at least 25% more... 30% total, to ensure that the drive stays as healthy (via low WA) and as snappy as possible.

With regards to your partitions; 'now' is always a good time to nuke them all, do a clean install and set it up properly ('unallocated' at the beginning or the end doesn't matter; what matters is being able to use the O/S's built in tools to shrink/expand the partitions as you see fit. Having to rely on third party tools for basic, low level manipulations like this is just asking for trouble. If not now, then sometime in the not too distant future).

 

Properly aligned
The 2.5" variant of the 1tb evo
I just want the space,ergo the 5% OP minus the formatted capacity lost...although still @ 551/535 R/W
I already deleted the recovery portion AW made on me drive, the one partition left is the 48mb dell utilities section then the main drive, I want to leave that incase I need to run diagnostics or Dell starts to complain

When I run 7's disk mgmxt I was getting cannot start virtual disk, I guess I had it disabled and thus was unable to use the extend or shrink partition cmd thru computer mgmxt

 

Minitool Partition Wizard is an excellent, and free, utility for partition management.

John

 

I used Macrium reflect (free version) to clone my windows drive a few weeks ago. Went from a 256 GB Samsung to a 960 GB m500 and I have had no issues since. There should be two windows partitions, one system partitions (100mb on win 7 or 350mb on win 8) and the full windows partition. Macrium reflect will just clone the full drive or you can select partitions to include.

 

I am cloning a logical drive, it's meant to be a repository of sorts


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