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Windows 7 (and Vista apparently) automatically place the start and end of partitions on 1MiB boundaries. Windows XP places the start and end of partitions on cylinder boundaries. You can adjust the alignment of partitions with a Gparted LiveCD for free.

It's really easy to align (assuming it's a single partition drive). Use Diskpar.exe and set the offset to 1024 512byte sectors.

You should align a SSD for use under Windows XP. Since it's an Indilinx drive you should align it to fall on a 512k boundary.

I'm pretty sure the DRM is automatically updated from the blu-ray discs themselves. The firmware updates are for other things.

Did you align it?

I don't know... It would be slightly plausible. That seems absolutely beyond any shadow of a doubt stupid enough to be the brainchild of the sorts of idiot who work in gov't. Like somehow a pile of leaked "cables" are going to make an impact on Iran. :bstd:

The conclusion to my HD to SSD sage is here.

They're solid. I bought several of my last batch from them. I paid a little more though. :(

You can update the firmware via disc, internet, or USB.

Except that's more torque. :lol: HP and Torque are mathematically connected. (Torque x Engine RPM) / 5,252 = Horsepower. HP is a measure of power. 1HP = 745.7W 1HP is also 550 foot-pounds per second.

Windows 7 likes partitions. The 100MB you're stuck with if you let the installer partition the drive. I like to put the pagefile in it's own partition so it can't get fragmented (not really relevant with a SSD though). The 4th is just to have a partition you can put stuff in that's not the OS...

I don't know that I'd put anything I wanted on Dynamic Disks. Can any OS other than newer versions of Windows read 'em?

I ended up with a pile of posts in my other thread about this so I figured I would consolidate them here. I've been trying to clone a 320GB spinning HD (with Windows 7 installed on it) to a 120GB Intel SSD since last night. There is/was a large empty partition on the 320GB I was okay with...

I give up! Acronis is just a steaming pile of manure. I got the old 320GB HD to have 120030494720 bytes used by partitions. This is equal to the largest possible usage of the 120GB Intel SSD with 1MiB aligned partitions. The Intel 120GB SSD has a 120031511040 byte capacity. A direct...

It certainly should.

Gilbo, your rant is highly misplaced... Leaking a bunch of stuff that belongs on the gossip pages or in tabloids is a waste of time. Do those "cables" need to be kept secret? Probably not. Do I need to know what the morons in the state department think of other world leaders? Nope. Does a...

What's wrong with an antenna, a HDHomerun, and a PC? I don't see why I should pay Hulu or anyone else for what I can get with no monthly charge. OTA HD has better quality than any streaming option and you can remove / skip the commercials.

So, my current plan is to create an aligned empty partition after the partitions I want to keep on the 320GB spinning HD that will bring the utilization of the 320GB drive to the exact size of the 120GB Intel SSD. Then I will clone the entire 320GB drive and the restored image should fit...

I need to recant. True Image V11 is no more capable to do what I want than 2011 was. In neither can you restore a disk image and omit one of the partitions. You can restore each partition one at a time from an image which destroys their alignment (at least in V11). I thought I was out of the...

Well, I'm cloning a 320GB spinning HD to a 120GB Intel SSD (or at least trying to). V11 would be able to do exactly what I'm trying to do, but not 2011. :cursin: :idea: Time to uninstall 2011 and re-install V11.

I tried Acronis TI Home 2011. It's terrible! It doesn't even work correctly. You can't restore an image to a smaller disk without it automatically resizing all the partitions. If you do the restoration of individual partitions the amount of unallocated space after partitions doesn't update...

Is he offering you the new one or the old one?

I've got 8 SATA drives on both of my PERC6i cards, but I'm using RAID-6.

I'm sure those $5 16GB w/ free shipping OCZ Rally 2 flash drives from last Wed. will definitely help their going public cause. ;)

Ok, what's your definition of affordable? A Dell PERC5i does what I described and are readily available used & working for ~$100 (or less).

Yeah, that seems kinda stupid to leave that sort of backdoor open unless I'm missing something.

Not sure what controllers you've played with, but the better ones let you specify thresholds for utilization by different tasks and are still quite fast while rebuilding.

So FWIW, Acronis will restore a drive image with the same alignment that it originally had. So, if you have an aligned drive, make an image of it, and then restore it to another drive you'll still have an aligned drive.

Because the discs can download online content.

Apparently that wasn't quite correct. This 2.5" Seagate ST9750420AS is 9.5mm thick 750GB, and 7200RPM.

The price isn't very good considering the 2.5" 1GB 12.5mm thick Samsung was $99 a few days ago, but I guess if you want the largest 2.5" 9.5mm thick HD you don't have any other options.

Whatever... Wrinkles add character to clothing.

Funny you mention that. link

Ironing? Who does that?

I love the willing suspension of disbelief some people live under. Yes, of course... Clearly Israel and it's Arab neighbor states who have attacked it at least 6 times are on equal footing. Israel is constantly making threats to wipe it's neighbors off the map. Israel is constantly blaming...

But you've already conceded my point. You agree that there are at least some bad guys out there so the number of them is irrelevant.

That would explain why the bottom 40+% of wage earners don't pay federal income taxes and the top 5% of wage earners pay >60% of all federal income taxes right?

C'mon, we all know the gov't has no business trying to deceive anyone. Spying is bad. Counterintelligence is bad. Misinformation is bad. Everything should be done out in the open. :bstd: Frankly, I can't believe some of the clueless comments. There are actual bad guys and in the world and...

Spare me the Valerie Plame BS. Although it is funny how the people outraged by the supposed outing of Ms. Plame are the ones publishing the Wikileak info. The same people who were given the information early and said it was their journalistic duty to publish it.

Why would you still willingly use IE6?

Oh, I'm sure it's intentional too. But, it didn't used to be that way. :mad:

So, does anyone else have this problem... I want to see 100 items per page, and I want it to sort by "Lowest Price", but every time I change change the guided search it reverts to 20 items per page and sorting by "Featured Items". Even just changing from 20 items per page to 100 items per page...

That's because the The Department of Security Theater is more interested in doing the bidding of Hollywood and the music industry than they are in trying to protect the "Homeland". If Wikileaks had leaked some music instead of state secrets the site would be shut down, have lost all their...

Face it, Lunar needs a Mac. He seems like they'd be right up his alley.

I'm more fascinated at how a single person in the Army was able to get their hands on all this data because it was pretty much just sitting out in the open on some servers that way too many people had access too and he had a CD-RW. :bstd:

I bought a stack of $5 Blu-Ray's on Black Friday when I rolled in around 11am.

Happy Birthday JTR!

Not guaranteed, but highly likely since you'll be moving the DAC into a much less electrically noisy piece of equipment.

Alright, I was finally able to do what I wanted. I use Acronis and then a gparted LiveCD to resize the partition so there was 1MB of empty space in front of it. The partition resizing aligned the partition on a a 2MB boundary (4096 512Byte sectors) which is larger than it needed to be, but...

I've got 11.0.0.8101. I was able to finally get the OS to boot from the SSD RAID-1 I restored the TI image as a boot volume, copied over the 3 startup files, and edited the boot.ini. Of course the partition wasn't aligned though.