Crunching on SSDs: What you need to know

[Biker]

Biker- does the attached pic indicate my drive is not aligned "31K-Bad" ? If so then the rest of my hard drives are bad as well !!!

Yes 31k BAD is the standard Windows XP offset which is not good for any SSD.

Drive Snapshot is a great tool and last time I checked it was free for the first month then it will restore only and not create new images for you.

If you first stick the SSD in another PC so it is not the boot drive then create an image with drive snapshot to another drive and then follow my alignment proceedure above you will have an aligned drive.

Now check the alignment with AS SSD to make sure it is correct.

If you are getting a Green then restore the snapshot image to it.

The great thing about drive snapshot is that when you restore an image it respects the partition offset you have already set up!