In that case clone away. I cloned my old hhd and didnt have ahci enabled. Speed was good but when I read about it and enabled ahci the speed improvement was tremendous.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 21, 2012, at 4:37 PM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote: > New laptop. Bios is set to ahci mode already. Plan to leave it that way. > > On 1/21/2012 3:42 AM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: >> Don't clone. Start out fresh. Put the ssd to ahci mode to get full >> speed and benefits. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jan 21, 2012, at 10:49 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin"<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I got my Sammy 830 256GB (it comes with a game, Norton Ghost v15, and a >>> usb-to-sata thingie). >>> >>> I don't want to reinstall everything on my laptop. I want to clone the 320 >>> GB HDD and keep it has it is for a few weeks (to ensure the SSD won't >>> crash)...then I will use it as a backup for the SSD. >>> >>> Can you clone a HDD with a 284GB partition to an SSD with a much smaller >>> partition? I thought the new partition had to be the same size or >>> larger....
