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Windows 7 - Moving to SSD

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +1300

Want to move your current disk image onto a SSD drive?

Quick, easy and free. Also aligns disk sectors :)

Tidy up your current HDD - delete / move any unneeded items to an archive disk
Shrink the C volume to under the size of the SSD (you do not need to shrink as small as possible, just shrink just under SSD size)
Run Windows Backup (win7 backup is very good, i.e. image backup) onto external USB Drive
Remove your current HDD and install SSD
Restore via Windows Backup — Boot install DVD, and choose Repair your computer, then select recover from windows backup image (use the image you backed up onto your USB drive).
Reboot, then expand the C volume to consume the full space of the SSD

Done.

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +1300

Run this elevated command to find out;

powercfg /requests

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +1200

This command will confirm if TRIM has been auto-enabled by windows 7

fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify

DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (Windows TRIM commands are disabled) DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled)

If you would like to force it on;

fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0