Macrium Reflect

Does IFW have it?

 

I am trying to find those properties now, but can't seem to find it.
How do I get there?

 

Yes.

 

Thanks!

 

Thanks Whatever imaging program I use I do only offline backups so I use to remove the application after creating bootable media. I have this habit when I started using acronis. I used to create a system restore point before installing acronis , install it and create rescue media, uninstall acronis and then revert back to earlier system state using system restore

 

I do something similar, but I install in shadow mode using Shadow Defender. So, I don´t need to uninstall, the program "dissappears" when I reboot.

 

Thanks for the help. I created the WinPE bootable USB thumb drive, booted with SSD connected via USB and successfully cloned the HDD to SSD. After I swapped the HDD for the SSD it booted succesfully and installed a driver and needed to reboot. After I refreshed the WEI score, I confirmed through CMD that TRIM was succesfully enabled
Even though my notebook only supports SATA-300, the speed improvement is very nice

 

Cloning works well.
I am just a bit concerned by TheRollbackFrog's comments about alignment when cloning from hard drive to SSD.

I don't even know how to find this screen in Macrium Reflect that froggy linked to in a previous post.

 

There's this tool to help and it works.

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/partition-alignment/index.html

 

If you restore to unpartitioned space it shouldn't be a problem. You can also create partitions using Windows 7/8 install CD and then restore to those partitions. They will be aligned. You can also check alignment after restore and reinstall if you don't get partitions aligned.

 

Thanks.

I used to know how to check the alignment, but I can't remember now.



And thanks MarcP.

 

Stigg,

This answer is for IFW, not Macrium.

Start IFW, Backup, select the partition (highlight it), Information.
You will see two LBA numbers. Start and End. Divide the first by 2048. If the result is an integer then the partition is 2048 sector aligned.

 

Hi Brian.
This is what I have. Which ones do I divide by?

 

206848/2048= 101 which is an integer. So all OK.

Let's say you had 206859 then you would be "in trouble".

 

I see.
It has to be a whole number.

 

My mathematically inclined brain...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer

 

I think there is a way to do without any third party tools.
I am fairly sure I have done it in the past.

 

Checking SSD Partition Alignment

To check the alignment of your SSD's partition, it is quite simple.

In windows 7/8/8.1, run msinfo32 by typing it into the search box on your start menu and hitting enter.

Click on: components => storage => disks

Look for your SSD and check the partition starting offset.

It needs to be divisible by 4096 (i.e. return a whole number when you divide by this) otherwise the alignment is not correct.



Source

 

Good find.

 

Whirlpool is a very good and informative site and a great forum.

 

Here is also a nice calculator with instructions how to get data: http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/157

 

If you have cloned a cylinder aligned partition to an SSD (we saw this frequently with Ghost 2003) and it is still cylinder aligned. Or used Partition Magic to create the OS partition...

Use a 2048 sector aligned aware partitioning app
Resize the partition 3 MB smaller
Slide the partition 2 MB
Resize the partition so there is no following free space

The slide is time consuming, depending on the amount of data in the partition. Some partitioning apps slide unused sectors too and these are very slow. GParted used to do this but I haven't tested it lately.

Edit .... I just tested the latest GParted. It still slides unused sectors. For an empty 150 GB partition, GParted was going to take over 3 hours. BIBM took 5 seconds.

 

Cool. Thanks.

 

I found something interesting about this today.
Check number 2. I don't know if this is the problem with Reflect failing to purge as I have only just found it, but it is still interesting.
http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50089.aspx

 

Macrium Reflect Professional v5.2.6551 released.

What's new? 5.2.6551:

• Cancel confirmation on Clone and Restore

A confirmation dialog has been added to prevent accidental cancelling of Clone and Restore operations.

• Volume label added to the USB drop down when building rescue media

To aide detection of the correct USB media when building a bootable USB stick the Volume label of the drive has been added to the selection box.

Bug Fixes:

• UEFI boot problem when shrinking a GPT partition.

Some customers have reported that when restoring and shrinking a UEFI booting system that the message "0x0000225 \winload.efi is missing". This has been resolved.
If this issue affects you then please create fresh Windows PE rescue media after updating.

• Windows 8.1 Event error for ReflectService.exe

The event "The description for Event ID 2 from source ReflectService cannot be found" was incorrectly posted to the Windows Event log in Windows 8.1. This has been resolved