There are a number of reasons why I wouldn't use this. Only Windows 7 or higher supports TRIM-enabled SSDs, which is the only way that you'll get decent performance from an SSD. Upon installation (not third-party migration) Windows 7 will recognize it's being installed to an SSD and change critical performance settings. It's from Paragon, and I won't use their products because they have failed miserably at recognizing and supporting drives and partitions which other software don't have problems with (proprietary partitions, RAID volumes, USB flash drives).

After a full install of Windows 7 to an SSD, you can move several of the "special" sub-folders to another drive to save room on the SSD at the expense of some performance. The Program Files folders are special protected folders on Vista and higher, cannot be moved (lest people whine, I don't count hacks, if any), and folders with the same name on other drives aren't protected (portable executables are never protected). The automatic per-user virtualization which Vista and higher do for poorly-written programs isn't a "user choice" and doesn't result in any performance penalty (unlike numerous other types of virtualization).

Fubar  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+81)

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Hello friends!

Just in case here's the registration link (though it will open from the program just fine):
http://www.paragon-software.com/registration/m2ssd

This time it's a single universal installation file, it will automatically install needed version (32- or 64-bit) to your PC.

kiwi  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+79)

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Sorry to have to say this guys, but if you want a long-lasting-bugfree installation on a new system you gonna have to roll up your sleeves and do a fresh install.

You can tell me whatever you want but there's nothing like a fresh install... I am not saying that all software developers sell snake oil but when it comes to OS migration one got to be realistic and face the facts!

Vote negative if you want but mine is a sincere recommendation matured by learning the hard way.

Mark  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+58)

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Hello Andy,

>> 1. What will happen to my existing Windows 7 OS in my laptop?
Win7 will be overwritten

>> 2. Will the laptop have both the OS installed?
No

>> 3. If the answer is Yes to question 2, how do I choose which OS to use?
To get dual boot system you need a product with more features: Paragon Partition Manager for example. It will allow you to partition laptop disk so that you can have two OSes there and it also has Boot Manager which will allow you to select which OS to boot.

kiwi  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+43)

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#3... Andy

With comments censored, this may already be answered before approval.

....If not, providing your SSD is large enough to hold both operating systems, you will need to partition the hard drive and choose to boot one or the other from the bios on boot.

....You can scroll up to other Paragon products and use their Partition Manager 11 Free edition to do this. But I warn you to back up everything before partitioning anything, which you can use Paragon's other product above, Backup & Recovery 2011 (Advanced) Free.

Hope that helps... Dave

PS: Yea, many of us have some questions now and then, that might seem dumb to others. But, I am thinking what goes around, comes around. ;)

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Dave  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+35)

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