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    Question regarding setting up my new P150EM

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by shadowprophet99, Jul 12, 2012.

  1. shadowprophet99

    shadowprophet99 Notebook Guru

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    Question: When buying my P150EM, I'm planning on immediately replacing the installed hard drive with an SSD. I would, however, REALLY like to keep the windows installation, drivers, and everything else that comes the way it is... What is the best way to go about this? It seems most cloning software requires the new drive to be larger than the total size of the original drive...

    Thanks in advance!
     
    shadowprophet99, Jul 12, 2012
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    Darkshado Notebook Consultant

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    You could shrink the HDD partition in Windows first or do it from your cloning/imaging OS.

    I use a either Linux live CD (any modern distro with Gparted will do, free) or Acronis True Image ($) to do the actual cloning. (In fact Acronis can also handle the shrink for you)

    Oh yeah, since you're going to be installing on an SSD, make sure the partition is properly aligned.
     
    Darkshado, Jul 13, 2012
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    Support.3@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    Best thing to do is a fresh install on the SSD. HDD and SSD write to sectors differently so cloning isnt recommended.
     
    Support.3@XOTIC PC, Jul 13, 2012
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    Acronis True Image actually factors in the write to sectors from HDD to SSD and is capable of imaging without issues.
    It's the only one we found that could actually do it correctly.
     
    Heihachi_1337, Jul 13, 2012
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    hizzaah Notebook Virtuoso

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    Interesting.. That's good to know heihachi!

    Any reason OP is so opposed to doing a fresh install though?
     
    hizzaah, Jul 13, 2012
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    will he might be like me last time i tried fresh installing an os not based on linux (windows) i just got my desktop into an infinite bootloop and had to take it to repair shop so the guy there installs windows for me -.- (it was windows xp not 7 i heard 7 is fool-proof tough!)
     
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    Actually, my reasoning is because I got the monitor calibration, and was thinking about getting the OS Redline Boost. I know the monitor calibration is stored in a file that I can copy (or so i was made to understand), i just thought it would be a lot simpler if i didn't have to deal with it. I'm going to look into Acronis, thank you very much for that tip! Since posting this, I actually did find a partition program to shrink it so I could clone it, but I didn't know about the issues with the write sectors (though that does make sense).

    Thanks a lot, and any other thoughts feel free to chime in!
     
    shadowprophet99, Jul 16, 2012
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