karndog Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Hi, I am trying to resize the partition of my old 74gb Raptor so i can clone the contents onto my new X32 SSD using Partition Magic. When i choose the option to resize it asks me how much "Free Space Before" i want to leave (in megabytes) My question is what would be the appropriate value to enter here? Can i leave it at 0? I read somewhere while googling the issue, that it is recommended to leave 1MB free space before the partition as any other value can affect performance, though i beleive this was on the ******** forum Thanks Ben. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 11, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 11, 2009 How much space is used on the current drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karndog Posted September 11, 2009 Author Share Posted September 11, 2009 25.9 GB used Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 11, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 11, 2009 Then I would make the drive size 30-31 Gig Max and make it the full size of the drive when you image it to the SSD. I would also suggest you trim as much of that off of the SSD for best performance normally you would want to leave about 30% or more of the SSD Free for best performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karndog Posted September 11, 2009 Author Share Posted September 11, 2009 Ok Thank you for the prompt reply :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 11, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 11, 2009 NP Please let us know how you make out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karndog Posted September 11, 2009 Author Share Posted September 11, 2009 Ended up using Acronis because the trial version of Partition Magic wouldn't allow me to to go through with the resize process. Acronis was very painless, resized and cloned in one go and im now running off my new X32 :D very happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 14, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 14, 2009 Accronics is the way to go its better than any other software I have used recently for cloning and resizing partitions. Kudos to them great software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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