Imaging to a SSD

[TechSupp]

Due to image a new PC shortly but it will be first one I have done with an SSD. Are there any gotchas to look out for. Will be using Clonzilla to do it and its a W7 image.

[southhamster]

Not come across any problems on cc4 or standard. My only concern is whether not setting aside part of the drive for provisioning will be a problem in thr future. I suspect not with decent ssd,'s

[AJWhite1970]

We've cloned 400 pc's from hdd's to ssd's using ghost without any issues thus far. Only issue was the odd hdd that needed defragging before imaging as ghost reported insufficient disk space on the ssd slave...

[timbo343]

We tried clonezilla from HDD to SSD and couldnt get it to work :S but using ghost worked a treat

[Geoff]

Maxed out my network when imaging to an SSD.

[psycho98]

What version of ghost are you using and where woul I get a copy

[Geoff]

I'm using SCCM.

[newpersn]

I think you would be best of re-imaging from fresh. WDS/MDT/SCCM.

[kennysarmy]

Disable defrag.

 

Disable prefetch and superfetch

 

Make sure TRIM is enabled.

[AJWhite1970]

These are my rough notes post cloning to an SSD

 

Diable Defrag Scheduled Task

schtasks /Change /TN \Microsoft\Windows\Defrag\ScheduledDefrag /DISABLE

 

Disable Prefetch

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session\Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

DWORD PrefetchParameters = "0".

 

Disable SuperFetch

services.msc

Change SuperFetch to disabled

 

Check TRIM is enabled (0=yes)

fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

 

I've also seen arguments to disable disk indexing and even paging files if RAM is greater than 4Gb but I haven't tried either to see if it makes a difference

 

Andrew

Edited May 15, 2015 by AJWhite1970
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[zag]

Also sometimes in the bios you need to change the SATA interface to AHCI.

 

Other than that, you will find things a lot quicker to do!

[TechMonkey]

Also bear in mind UEFI vs BIOS. I had fun and games with the last new PC I ahd to build where it kept failing and it was something to do with UEFI I am sure. I ran out of time to properly diagnose in the end and turned off UEFI in the settings.

 

IF you use SCCM you need to make sure you have the proper queries and steps to check for UEFI and then build using UEFI specific commands. Nothing to arduous but if you use an old Sequence it may be missing or if you custom built a sequence it will be missing.

[TechSupp]

We tried clonezilla from HDD to SSD and couldnt get it to work :S but using ghost worked a treat

 

What issue did you have? Always used Clonezilla and not got anything else set up and no time to set anything up either as its commibg next week.

[TechSupp]

Well, tried and failed with Clonezilla as suggested but had to try as that what my image was done with. Its to do with alignment of sectors on SSD's apparently. Looks like its time to change our imaging system. Currently keep a virtual PC as my master and create images from that which has worked well so far. Anyone know of a simpletons guide to setting up the image server on Windows server 2008 R2 (got a spare server to use) as people seem to have said thats OK with setting the sectors etc of SSD's or suggest any other one. Tried a Fog server once before but just didnt really get on with it which is why I ended up with Clonezilla.

[newpersn]

Wds is easy to use.

 

Once the wds side is set up. In port the network driver to wds. Make the boot image (boot.wmi from windows 7 disc.)

 

Make the image. Sysprep and capture the image.

 

I'll post up some notes tomorrow.