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XPS 9000 - Cloning an HDD to an SSD
Before anyone tells me to Google it: Yes, I know how to actually clone hard drives, but there's one detail I'm a little fuzzy on:
In Macrium Reflect, it allows you to realign the partitions to Windows 7 defaults (1 MB). The hard drive that originally came with the XPS 9000 has 3 partitions: 1st) an OEM, 2nd) Recovery, and 3rd) OS Partition.
Macrium aligned the Recovery and OS Partitions to 1 MB boundaries, but not the OEM partition, which is the first partition on the hard drive. Is it ok to realign the OEM partition to a 1 MB boundary as well? Or will the BIOS not be able to boot Windows 7 correctly if the partition is realigned away from its default of 32,256 bytes?
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September 24th, 2016 02:00
Windows 7 should boot however you may lose the ability to factory restore. You should upgrade to the latest version of Dell Backup and Recovery and create a Recovery USB if you want to restore to factory settings later down the line.
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October 24th, 2016 02:00
Check the following guide and it describes more information of cloning hdd to ssd.
www.backup-utility.com/.../clone-hard-drive-to-ssd-4348.html