TRIM update hosed my Windows 7 install

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Just did the firmware update and it hosed my Windows 7 installation. The updater showed a successful firware update. Initially the computer booted just fine, but once I was within Windows it installed some drivers and asked for a reboot. That's when the trouble started. Now the drive won't boot Windows 7 anymore. I don't know if it's a Dell problem or Intel problem. The Dell BIOS claims a SMART error. I have a Dell XPS 8000.

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Wrong? I was replying to nogi and asked him the question based on what he said:

Oct 28, 2009 9:13 PM /message/71754# 71754 in response to: /message/71754# 71754 nogi /message/71755# 71755 Re: TRIM update hosed my Windows 7 install

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So Acronis TI 2010 does not preserve the correct alignment?

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Maybe he doesn't have ATI 2010 and would have to buy it. But, why should he buy it when Windows 7 has a full image backup built in?

[idata]

"Wrong! Acronis 2010 DOES restore partitions with correct alignment."

How do you know? nogi said:

"I cloned a perfectly aligned Vertex to my G2 and it was not aligned after the cloning process. But cloning the same drive to itself, you would think that it would retain it.

I used Acronis TrueImage 2010."

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I believe that one must twitch his nose just right in executing the restore, Ambizytl. I just looked for the log to remind myself how I did it, but cannot find it. I believe that the log may not be recorded in the case of an Acronis recovery CD-based drive restore to the drive that hosts the Acronis logs.

Anyway, what I remember doing is a full drive image restore. The restore screen had three checkmark blocks, one for each of two partitions backed up during a full drive image backup using Acronis TI 2010 and one checkmark block to restore the MBR and partition table. I checked off all three blocks and then restored ("recovered" in Acronis parlance).

I remember reading somewhere on the Acronis support site that (for TI 2009 at least) the partition boundary is only maintained if the restore is performed a certain way. (E.g., one could restore each partition separately and then restore the MBR separately and get different results.) I honestly could not remember which was the correct way and guessed at restoring the entire drive image at once including MBR/partition table; and it worked. That is, it maintained the 2048-sector partition offset. (I just now fired up Partition Wizard and looked at the SSD drive properties to re-confirm. It informs that the "first physical sector [of the first partition] is 2048)."

Regards,

Bruce

[idata]

Ok, but what is wrong with the backup in Windows 7 to do a full image?

Your Acronis way seems a bit touchy, and maybe that is why nogi had a problem.