On 19 Aug 2014 at 20:01, cdb wrote:
> As an MVP for Acronis, may I suggest the following, assuming the SSD is t=
o=20
> be an internal drive.
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> Two things, well three actually, but I'll start with 'cloning'.=20
>=20
> 1. If the OS drive is the one to be cloned, it is advisable to boot from=
=20
> the recovery environment (USB/CD), this way you are either in a Linux or =
a=20
> Windows PE environment, from here there is only one reboot which is the=20
> reboot at the end of the clone procedure.

Excellent, thanks for the info, this helped me get it working. I made a boo=
t disk=20
using Acronis (didn't know it could do this, or that I'd have to), booted f=
rom it and=20
launched Acronis, then cloned internal HDD to external USB/SSD successfully=
.... as=20
you say this avoided the problems of OS locking the drive, no restart requi=
red, no=20
hangups etc.

Pulled out the HDD, dropped in the SSD, booted fine. On very next restart t=
he BIOS=20
could't detect the drive and refused to boot, but powered system down and r=
etried...=20
fine since then. Ran the Adata SSD tools utility and configured the OS and=
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"trimmed" the drive. Mission accomplished... boots very fast now, and largi=
sh=20
applications launch quicker.

Might do the same with my aging desktop PC... good time to replace my spinn=
ing=20
HDD that's is probably due to expire, plus the speedup should keep it useab=
le for a=20
year or two more.



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