On 03/29/2018 12:00 AM, mike wrote:

I have an older (thinkpad X200 Tablet) win10 pro laptop with a spinning
hard drive.
Can I just use linux to format the new SSD with
aligned partitions, plug it in and restore the Macrium Reflect backup
from the old drive?
It's a legacy BIOS if that matters.

The question boils down to how windows treats SSD's.
There are some operational parameter changes that
improve the life and performance of SSD's.Â* Yes? No?
Do those get enabled automagically with the swap?
Do I have to reinstall win10 to make it happen?
Something different?
Anything else I'm missing?

I just replaced the spinning rust in my ThinkPad T430 by an SSD, using
the Free version of MiniTool Partition Wizard, which has a "Migrate OS"
function. Worked fine.

Perce