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Old 30th Jun 2014, 13:18
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Keef

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Actually, Disk 1 looks odd to me, too. It's reporting a drive size, then two partitions that add to more than the driv4e size.

Here's how mine appears in the same screen:



I suspect you do need the special software to "clone" the drive. I don't know what Crucial use - mine is an Intel which came with all the necessary on a CDROM. A phone call to Crucial might help.

There were two snags in changing to SSD that took me a while to fix:
1. The Intel software can only clone a boot partition that is the same size or smaller than the SSD. I had to move stuff off the previous boot drive and get it down to size.
2. The Intel drive "timed out" looking for the motherboard OS before the OS went looking for a boot drive. I made a "delay unit" that waited one second after power up of the PC before putting power on the SSD.

The other lesser problem is that some software (Apple's stuff is a prime offender) does an awful lot of "churning" of the boot drive (drive C). I was worried that would wear out the SSD prematurely, so did some "redirecting" of Apple and other stuff to a conventional drive partition.
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