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Following the article in the KB, I was able to clone the original hard drive of a Lenovo desktop to an SSD. However, today I read this article on Tom's Hardware suggesting that I may have not done the procedure correctly. That is, I don't recall checking any alignment option.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/28428 ... tall-clone

What should I check to see if I am getting the maximum performance from the SSD? If I've made a mistake, can it be corrected, or do I have to start from scratch?

You can look at the starting lba of the partitions to see if dividing them
by 2048 is even or has a remainder. The global option to enable is align
on 2048 sectors, then on restore you'd use the align to target option.

If it's not aligned, and you feel like you want to align it, you can either
redo it with the option enabled or use BIBM partition work with that option
enabled, slide without changing values (may need create a little free space
at the end of the partition depending on the layout) (if you then want to
align the end, you could resize without changing values).

"Mike" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

Following the article in the KB, I was able to clone the original hard drive
of a Lenovo desktop to an SSD. However, today I read this article on Tom's
Hardware suggesting that I may have not done the procedure correctly. That
is, I don't recall checking any alignment option.

[
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/28428 ... tall-clone
](http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/284280-32-windows-install-clone)

What should I check to see if I am getting the maximum performance from the
SSD? If I've made a mistake, can it be corrected, or do I have to start from
scratch?

Do I have to align each partition, one at a time? There are three: A boot partitions, Windows 7, and a recovery partition.

UPDATE: There was 2MB of free space at the end of the drive. I slid the recovery partition by 2MB. There was then 2MB of free space before that recovery partition. Then I did the same for the Windows 7 partition. Finally, I slid the boot partition. After I slid it, there were no areas of free space showing. Booted the drive, everything worked well, adn AS-SSD shows the drive as being aligned, so presumably all is well.