09-09-2023, 10:35 AM
I have hunted the Net for a CIC HDD image to no avail, any links are always dead. There are some great DIY's for changing a HDD to SSD on the web, but I kind of disagree with how they actually make the image.
The easy way is to use Acronis True Image and do a Bit by Bit back/copy. When copied / restored back to SSD you will still end up with an 80GB drive. The music partition on the drive will need expanding to make full use of the new SSD.
I have never had any success in doing this, but then all my music is read from a 250GB flash drive in the glove box.
The benefit for me was faster start times and faster map loading.
The HDD in the CIC is an automotive drive with special firmware making them very resilient to failure. But they are getting older so changing to SSD is a great idea. Just keep the original spinning rust HDD safe as a backup.
The easy way is to use Acronis True Image and do a Bit by Bit back/copy. When copied / restored back to SSD you will still end up with an 80GB drive. The music partition on the drive will need expanding to make full use of the new SSD.
I have never had any success in doing this, but then all my music is read from a 250GB flash drive in the glove box.
The benefit for me was faster start times and faster map loading.
The HDD in the CIC is an automotive drive with special firmware making them very resilient to failure. But they are getting older so changing to SSD is a great idea. Just keep the original spinning rust HDD safe as a backup.
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