Just learn how to Boot the Win Installation Disk and use MS Diskpart to prepare and Partition your SSD with Alignment Off-Set Commands and DOS Boot a 1.32 MB App named Ghost.exe.
Be warned that if you are changing out Multiple Hardware, such as a Main Board or transferring your OS to another Platform, you require a MS SYS-Prep image, irregardless of the Backup Utility you use.
In my opinion Acronis... [is] Bloated GUI CRAP - Just learn how to Boot the Win Installation Disk and use MS Diskpart to prepare and Partition your SSD with Alignment Off-Set Commands and DOS Boot a 1.32 MB App named Ghost.exe.
Be warned that if you are changing out Multiple Hardware, such as a Main Board or transferring your OS to another Platform, you require a MS SYS-Prep image, irregardless of the Backup Utility you use.
All backup programs can make images of your drive.Yes, but it works pretty well for we unwashed tech-savvy PC users. Additionally, it has a number of utilities that work well, and, of course, being able to make backup images of your drive.
I may just clone but wasn't sure if Acronis would do it that way either. I will be using True Image 2014 Home with the latest boot media.
My plan is to use Acronis True Image to backup and image of my HDD and then restore it to the new SSD. IN doing so, is Acronis smart enough to align the sectors and all of that correctly so I get top performance on my SSD?
do you plan to upgrade you present hard disk to SSD? if you like to do this, maybe there is no need for you to backup HDD first and then restore it to SSD.
actually, you can clone hard disk to SSD with AOMEI partition Assistant (free version) without reintalling. furthermore, this software allows you to align partition during clone when the destination disk is SSD.
more information:
http://www.disk-partition.com
Yes I already have Acronis. And on the account page portion of their website I can download the bootable Linux media and burn it to optical. So that is my plan.
Be warned that if you are changing out Multiple Hardware, such as a Main Board or transferring your OS to another Platform, you require a MS SYS-Prep image, irregardless of the Backup Utility you use.