Software to move and align partition for SSD?

I have an installation of WinXP on a laptop HDD and want to replace it with an SSD. Is there software or a backup program which can re-align the partition to the proper 2K boundary?

 

Image for windows can do it easily.

Panagiotis

 

Cool, I own IFW/IFL. What options do I use to back up from the HDD and restore to an SSD aligned properly? This laptop has two partitions.

 

You should enable the option "Align at 2KiB".

Panagiotis

 

ShadowProtect has an option to edit the partition settings before creating it and I have used it when reinstalling the image of my OS to my SSD

 

Turns out I actually need it at the 4096 byte boundary, which IFL does not do automatically.

 

Use diskpart to create the partitions http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766465(WS.10).aspx (look at the "Create Partition Primary" Command)

and after that use IFW to restore the images.

Panagiotis

 

Will this work on Windows 7 64bit in a RAID array with just one partition on the system drive?

 

Of course.

Panagiotis

 

Thanks for the info. I ended up using Diskpart and restored with ShadowProtect which I already have.

Silver

 

Paragon Alignment Tool see this post

 

Nice! Of course, after I do it the hard way.