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Align the blocks to the start of the partition on a complete track in loose terms rather than just the first available place on the disk. SSD owners need to know the answer to this. SSD's that don't have proper partition alignment suffer performance penalties. It is a known issue the TI did not preserve the alignment. I have recovered some images from Vista and Windows Seven. The alignment was before and after the recovery.
But I don't know if that happens because TI preserves the alignment or just because is now the default value of TI. I've run several tests in a VM using TI build 5, to check how the offset is handled. The results are not what I expected, but they're better than previous versions.
My test drive had two partitions created with Vista. The first partition was 20GB and started at offset 1MB. If restoring to another drive, it may be best to create the partition as desired and then restore into it or restore the Entire Disk Image and then use Disk Management to resize it. For example: I cleared the drive all unallocated space and created a new 40GB partition using Vista. I then restored the 20GB partition into the 40GB partition using the default values.
The restored partition still had the offset. In those cases, going back and changing the size a little would let TI actually do the resize. My understanding is that Norton Ghost 15 supports all features of ssd.
I cannot even get my true image loaded on the ssd without a mbr 1 error. Technical support was not helpful and a best a joke. I've been an Acronis customer for many years and am extremely disapointed. I have many image file which are no longer of any use.
I have a computer that's dead and lost data. I cannot even get the MBR 1 error resolved. Have you considered downloading the iso file from your registration. After download, burn the iso to CD and then attempt to backup or restore prior versions. This may be a temporary option. Be aware of possible alignment conflicts when using the old backups--as per MudCrab's test data posted in 6 above. Grover's New Revised Guides 4. TI FAQ. Using 6. Help 8. Stop Scan for Backups 8A.
ATIH Video's 3. Create new disks-Guides. Mustang's New Guides Les Seiler's Backup Video. I have an Iso image and that's the way I usually restore a drive. I just bought 2 ssd's and was able to format and install an image, but all I get is a MBR 1 error. Someone else corrected this but I don't know how they did it. I just wish I knew how to fix the MBR problem. On this disk I have installed Windows 7 - 64 bit and some software.
What would be the best step by step procedure to achieve this without getting this "alignment problem"??? Hi Dag, with Win7 you will not get this problem, or with using Disk Director 11 which will be released in a blink! All HDD's have had the alignment problem sorted for a few years - everyone has been waiting for microsoft, yawwwwwwwn. Place that image on a USB-drive. Pop in the new SSD-drive. Attach the USB-drive with the full image backup file on it. Boot the computer and choose the USB-stick as the boot device.
Restore the image onto the SSD. Ah well ok, you won't be able to clone it and I will have to bow down to my peers because I have never done anything quite like it but it can be done Dag, Whether you can use the clone feature or not, try it and see.
Others have been sometime successful in cloning to a smaller drive so it's difficult to say it will or won't. Open Windows Disk Management graphical view and look at how your partitions are displayed and how many partitions you have. Be observant and take some notes.
Write down which one is active and which ones have drive letters. When you create your backup, you must make sure to that all the partitions are checkmarked so all can be included in the backup being used to restore your system to a new blank drive.
Note the example shown in first image below. If you backup only the unlabeled one, your new disk will not boot. Before you create your new backup, assign a name to your unlabeled drive. Note what MudCrab wrote in post 6. Your best chance of success is to restore the entire disk which means all the partitions will be restored.
Note also that you need to checkmark the "Recover Disk Signature" option which is shown at the bottom left of the screen where you select the SSD disk. Remember, you can simulate your procedures so you get the feel of what you are doing. It is practice up to the point where you must choose Proceed or Cancel. Click Cancel if only practicing.
I do not have Win7 nor an SSD so others more familiar with your settings will have to help further. Thanks GroverH! I notice that we might have different software, but I guess that does not change anything?? I am running Acronis True Image Home I am also running , b If you are talking about the appearance of the pic, look at this link. You can make your TI picture look like mine so you can see the alignment of the partitions and sectors.
I do not have Win7 installed. This is a pic from our grandson's laptop. I change the display of TI so it always shows this disk information. The info can help to prevent a wrong selection. Your restore steps of were ok except that you need to change the type of backup being created so your backup includes all partitions; plus the type of restore also needed to include all partitions plus enable the "recover disk signature" option.
Simulate doing the restore so you get the feel of the procedure. Just click cancel rather than proceed when you get to the end. I just wanted to shed some light on this subject.
First of all, to put it in a nutshell, SSD partition alignment is all about optimizing the performance of read and more importantly write operations for the page size of 4KB which is the default for SSD drives. The default Windows XP partition offset is 63 sectors which aligns the partition to the beginning of the second cylinder which puts the beginning of the partition right in the middle of an SSD page and because of that every time the operating system tries to write something to the drive, it eventually tries to write the data the minimal pages of 4KB to areas that span more sectors than required, thus resulting in some excessive overhead and thus reduction in productivity.
You can find more info on this topic on the Internet but all in all, it's all about aligning the physical data structure with the logical data pages SSDs use. This is less of a problem for the conventional HDD drives because users usually choose smaller allocation unit page sizes but it's still a hot topic for SQL database administrators who opt for bigger page size.
That's not much of an issue for Acronis Disk Director though because you can modify those offsets easily using the basic functionality of this program. I hope this will make things a bit clearer for everyone. This info is pretty much in tune with the tests MudCrab has run. You shouldn't have any problems if you are using the hard drives of the same size or may be restore backups to the same drive to restore some of the files or partitions - restoring the whole drive without resizing partitions will work ok for you.
Migrating to a drive of a different size may be a bit trickier - while we are implementing the full support for the SSD drives you should stick to creating partitions with the correct offsets prior to the restore and then restoring partitions one by one or may be even just mounting the partition to restore all the files via copy-paste.
There are situations in which this may become tricky but you are now armed with the knowledge of how it works. After looking thru the manual, seemed I needed to "copy" the drive, with a Offset and swap them - pretty straighforward or so I thought. From reading, it seems I cannot do a "clone" like I normally do using TI until this alignment problem is fixed later this year.
Can someone please explain with detailed steps, how when using Acronis TI with Acronis Director Home 11 together exactly how to move the data to the SSD, while fixing the alignment to and without triggering the "not geniuine" black screens as I have on my past 3 attempts? I had the same thing happen to me only no ssd involved. All the sudden after an ATI disk image restore Windows comes up as not genuine. The only difference was My Raid array became corrupted so I rebuilt the whole thing over on to it self.
I've been using ATI since 07 and upgraded every year. Maybe we both did something wrong or there is a issue with Win7 x It took a complete format and reload to correct the issue and I want to know exactly what went wrong so this doesn't happen again.
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