Free Imaging Utility to Maintain Aligment - From SSD to SSD?

I have a Kingston 64GB SSD in my netbook and want to replace it with an Intel 80GB SSD. I really don't want to go through the hassle again of doing a full install again, as it's a pretty clean install and only did it a little while ago.

I tried doing an Acronis (2008?) drive image clone but the offset was 31KB.

Is there a free cloning utility that will maintain or allow you to set the alignment offset?

 

You could try this and see if it works any better. It is Intel's software written by Acronis. People have complained that it did not detect intel drives, but the user had a raid set up. if it works let us know.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/windows-os-software/523527-new-intel-ssd-cloning-tool-software.html

 

Thank you, +1, seems to have done the trick! Offset 1,024,576!

 

For future reference, if you're using Windows 7, I can verify that it's Backup and Restore utility maintains the exact alignment you had when you make a system image.

 

That's good info too. I just wanted to do a disk to disk clone.

Just for the record, this utility gives you three options when doing a disk clone:
(1) "as-is" - maintain exact same partition sizes, etc.
(2) "proportional" - adjust partition sizes proportional with the size of drive so it fills the whole drive
(3) "manual" - where you can manually adjust partition sizes.

Of course there the two Windows partitions, first one "system reserved", which is the one to be aligned and the one after it is the Windows partition.

 

You can do a disk to disk clone with it. But AFAIK it will only backup system critical partitions.