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The Dy'on® Figure 8 Bridle features a traditional ring style, a raised, fancy-stitched Figure 8 noseband with sheepskin center and Dy'on's padded anatomic crown piece for the comfort of the horse. The noseband attaches to the crownpiece on both sides, so once it's adjusted, it's less likely to shift--especially important for a Figure 8 noseband. The bridle has a raised, padded fancy-stitched browband and solid brass hardware. Hook stud closures. Reins are sold separately.
A premium-quality bridle in every aspect, this Veritas Fancy Raised Bridle delivers Vesucci's impeccable craftsmanship, legendary comfort, style and performance. It's made of top quality American leather and features luxuriously soft padding and extra-fine stitching. Laced reins are included.
The Circuit Single Crown Grand Prix Hunter Bridle has a padded crownpiece that reduces pressure on the horse's poll. It's beautifully made of top-quality leather and styled with a raised, padded, fancy-stitched brow and a slotted style raised, padded, fancy-stitched nose measuring 1" wide with padding. Matching flat laced reins are included.
Made in the USA from American lather, this Tory Leather Quick Change English Training Headstall keeps up with your training needs. This quick-change bridle allows bits to be swapped out with a snap—ideal for riders with multiple horses and for those who change bits frequently.
Showmark Deluxe Classic Bridle is a durable bridle with an unpadded 1" noseband and 1/2" brow. A recessed crown design that allows the noseband hanger to hide in a discreet channel. Crown is also padded against the poll and contoured around the ears. Reins included.
The Micklem Competition Bridle* was designed for use in competition as a bitted bridle. It has a softly padded crownpiece, browband and noseband and offers a show ready look. Matching rubber reins are included.
From Vespucci's premier bridlework collection, this Veritas Dressage Bridle will please the most discerning rider. It's impeccably crafted from premium American leather with Vespucci's renowned commitment to detail, horse comfort, performance and style. Luxuriously soft padding and extra-fine stitching sets this dressage bridle apart from the rest.
Combining quality with a budget-friendly price, the Suffolk™ Fancy Snaffle Bridle is traditionally styled and finished with lovely stitching. It's crafted of rich brown leather and features a padded nose and brow for horse comfort. Matching laced reins are included.
The Dover Saddlery Everyday Single Crown Hunter Bridle offers a show ring look at an everyday price. 7/8" raised fancy-stitched noseband and brow that flatters the heads of most horses.
The Crown Premier Dressage Bridle with integrated, padded crown, padded brow and crank noseband with flash is made from carefully selected leather. Finished with hand-rubbed edges and stainless steel hardware, this dressage bridle includes web/rubber reins.
The Crown Premier Padded Bridle is designed to please both the dressage rider and dressage horse. This fully-padded flash bridle is has a cut-back crownpiece to alleviate discomfort at the ears. Extra-fine stitching, hand-finished edges and subtle piping set this affordable bridle apart from the rest in its class. Reins are included.
Dover's exclusive Crown Premier Figure 8 Bridle is designed for your horse's comfort and offered at an exceptional price. This traditional, ring-style figure 8 bridle has a single crownpiece with padding against the poll. Extra-fine stitching and hand-rubbed edges give it the look and feel of a bridle that's twice the price. Reins are included.
The Crown Padded Stitched Bridle is made with carefully selected hides. Perfect for both school or showing. Features a raised, fancy-stitched padded browband and noseband for a great look and comfort for your horse. Matching laced reins included.
With features usually found in bridles that cost twice as much, the Showmark Deluxe Hunter Bridle in premium, soft, Wickett & Craig American leather represents exceptional value and style. This traditionally-styled hunter bridle is ideal for the show ring with discreet padding and clean lines. Reins are included.
The Showmark Deluxe Jumper Bridle in premium, soft, Wicket & Craig American leather looks good from day one and keeps getting better with use. Designed to please the jumper, this elegant bridle has a padded, integrated crown and ring style figure-8 noseband with a sheepskin center. Flexigrip rubber reins are included.
The Suffolk™ Premier Dressage Bridle represents an exceptional value. Designed with a padded, single crownpiece, this affordable dressage bridle offers comfort for your horse as it eases poll pressure. Nose and brow are also nicely padded. Subtle piping adds a touch of extra style.
The Suffolk™ Premier Fancy-Stitched Bridle offers features usually found in more expensive bridles. Great for everyday use, this snaffle bridle looks good enough for the show ring with 12 stitches per inch and stainless steel hardware throughout. Matching laced reins included.
Ideal for jumpers, the thoughtfully-designed Vespucci Raised Figure-8 Bridle is well padded for comfort. The figure-8 center is padded, and leather paddles behind the side rings help protect against rubbing and pinching.
A traditionally-styled hunter bridle that's ideal for both schooling and showing! The Vespucci Fancy Raised Bridle has soft padding for horse comfort. This top-quality English leather bridle comes with matching laced reins.
Representing great value and a classic look, the Suffolk™ Dressage Bridle has a padded, raised flash caveson and brow. It's made of quality imported leather and comes with web reins.
With a new show-ready look, this Micklem Deluxe Competition Bridle offers all the quality and performance you love about the Micklem. It features a slightly raised, fancy-stitched brow, wider nose and matching rubber reins. Softer, more flexible leather in a slightly wider width ensures enhanced horse comfort.
The Rodrigo Classic Hunter Bridle has traditional styling that reminds us of the great hunter bridles of the past. This raised stitched hunter bridle has a wide noseband that is scaled appropriately to suit the bridle size of the horse.
The Warendorf Deluxe Dressage Bridle in Wickett & Craig American leather represents excellent quality, timeless style and great value. This deluxe dressage bridle with reins is classically styled with thoughtful comfort features for the horse. It's durable enough for schooling and elegant enough for show.
The choice of many of the world's top show jumpers, the popular Dy'on® Anatomic Bridle is instantly recognizable as a Dy'on because of the distinctive, slightly-contoured padded, fancy-stitched nose and brow. This bridle has a removable flash noseband and a padded single crown design that offers a clean look and a comfortable fit for your horse. In premium English leather, it has quality details throughout including solid brass hardware. Reins are sold separately.
The HDR Pro "Stress Free" Fancy-Stitched Padded Bridle with reins offers classic style and comfort for your horse. HDR's "stress free" crown reduces bulk and places soft padding against your horse's poll.
The Ovation™ Ultra Fancy-Stitched Wide Nose Bridle is ready for the show-ring! This bridle is crafted of Wickett & Craig American leather which is known for its rich color. It features a 1" wide raised fancy-stitched noseband popular in hunter and equitation rings. Soft padding inside the crownpiece provides comfort over your horse's poll.
The Suffolk Plain Snaffle Bridle with matching laced reins represents a great value in an everyday bridle. Offered at a budget-friendly price, this snaffle bridle stands up to daily use.
The Crown Premier Wide Nose Hunter Bridle in rich dark brown leather offers show ring style at a great price. Classically-styled, it has a single crown design, a slightly raised, fancy-stitched 1 1/4" noseband, matching, padded 5/8" browband and 1/2" cheeks with hook stud closures. It comes with flat laced reins.
Dr. Cook's Beta BitlessBridle™ offers all the benefits of a bitless bridle--plus exceptionally easy care. This synthetic bridle is made of Beta material with the strength and durability of nylon and the easy care of vinyl. Matching reins are sold separately.
The Micklem Diamante Competition Bridle delivers all the comfort of the Micklem Competition Bridle, along with a touch of bling. In softer leather with softer padding, this bridle offers enhanced horse comfort. A slightly wider noseband presents a great look.
Dover's Warendorf Everyday Bridle represents excellent quality, timeless style and a great value. Well made, this dressage bridle has a padded, slightly raised brow and noseband with attached flash. Made of Wicket & Craig American Leather, it has a recessed crown design for comfort over your horse's poll. Reins included.
The Rambo® Micklem Original Multibridle can be used as a bitted bridle, a bit-free bridle, a lunge caveson and even as a halter. With a few small adjustments, it meets the needs of most riders and horses. Reins are not included.
Riders of large breed dressage horses will appreciate the Stübben Classical Dressage Bridle. With brow, crown, noseband and cheeks slightly wider than those of traditional bridles, it flatters larger breeds. Browband and noseband are padded. This dressage bridle comes with web reins.
The Passier® Jupiter Bridle with Recessed Noseband features a specially-designed, softly padded crank noseband with flash. It's cut back in the bit area to prevent interference with bit rings and to allow for clean rein aids. The browband is fashionably curved and embedded with a row of crystals. Web reins included.
The Circuit Grand Prix Classic Hunter Bridle offers a classic look complete with traditional crown design. This hunter bridle has a raised, padded, fancy-stitched 7/8" brow, traditional slotted style raised, padded, fancy-stitched nose and includes flat laced reins with stitch detail at fronts. In top-quality leather with extra-fine stitching and hook studs.
The Ovation® Ultra Raised Bridle makes your horse comfortable with its Comfort Crown, padded noseband and browband and discreet pad behind the noseband buckle. This bridle offers a traditional look with plain raised styling and subtle ivory stitching.
Timelessly simple in design, this Suffolk™ Premier Classic Dressage Bridle was created for those riders seeking an affordable dressage bridle with a standard caveson. It has a single crownpiece, raised and padded nose and matching brow. Web reins included.
The Passier® Special Bridle lets you enjoy the superior quality and unsurpassed workmanship of a Passier bridle--at a very special price. This traditionally-styled dressage bridle with reins has a plain, slightly raised brow and flash noseband with padding. A Dover exclusive dressage bridle!
The budget-friendly HDR Pro "Stress Free" Flash Bridle has plain, raised styling that stands the test of time. This padded flash bridle boasts HDR's stress free crown for your horse's comfort. Comes with rubber reins.
Simple and timeless, this Crown Plain Raised Bridle has extra-fine stitching and hand-finished edges. Made of hand-selected leather, this snaffle bridle includes matching laced reins.
The Showmark Hunt Bridle represents tradition at its finest. Made of Wicket & Craig American leather, this classically-styled bridle looks great from day one and keeps getting better with use. Perfect for the schooling ring, show ring and hunt field. Reins are included.
The Passier® Fortuna Bridle has hidden elastic on the crown to relieve pressure on sensitive areas. This traditionally-styled dressage bridle has a padded crank noseband with flash and a browband that's accented with Austrian crystals. Web reins with hand stops are included.
Ring-style Figure 8 bridle features plain raised padded brow and noseband with sheepskin lined center. Meticulous stitching and hand-finished edges. 1/2" cheeks (oversize 5/8"). Hook stud closures. Includes 5/8" x 54" rubber reins.
The Wellington Hunter Derby Bridle has a classic design with an elegant look. Made with the finest quality English leather and inspired by the classic show hunter bridles of the past, the Hunter Derby Bridle with reins combines traditional craftsmanship with modern enhancements.
Beautifully made in Germany, the Passier® Libra Weymouth Bridle is a classic double dressage bridle. A row of small Austrian crystals on the brow add sophisticated style. This full bridle has a padded crank noseband, an adjustable crown and includes two sets of plain reins with hand stops.
The Vespucci Traditional Wide Dressage bridle is designed to compliment dressage horses with larger heads. Made of premium English leather, this flash bridle has a wider, padded noseband and browband.
Carefully designed for your horse's comfort, the Vespucci Plain Raised Flash Bridle has padding on the single crownpiece, nose and brow--even on the buckle guard and the flash attachment. This high-quality flash bridle looks elegant in competition or in the schooling ring.
Our Wellington Saratoga Premier Bridle delivers excellent quality and outstanding comfort for your horse. Made in England of premium Sedgwick's leather, this fancy-stitched bridle features an integrated single crown with subtle, soft padding over the poll and contouring around the ears. Our subtle signature stitch pattern appears on cheeks and rein fronts for a finished, show ring look.
Ideal for jumpers, the thoughtfully-designed Vespucci Fancy-Stitched Raised Figure-8 Bridle is well padded for comfort. The figure-8 center is padded, and leather paddles behind the side rings help protect against rubbing and pinching.
The Suffolk Flash Bridle is a great everyday flash bridle at an incredible price! This bridle is durable enough for schooling and elegant enough for the show ring. Comes complete with matching web reins. Another affordable, quality bridle from Suffolk.
The Crown Premier Flash Bridle offers all the comfort and style you want for your competition horse, at a price point that makes you comfortable using it for daily schooling. In hand-selected, dark brown leather, this flash bridle features a padded single crown and a fancy-stitched, padded, raised brow and nose. It has 1/2" wide cheeks and comes with web reins.
Carefully designed for your horse's comfort, the Vespucci Fancy-Stitched Raised Flash Bridle has padding on the single crownpiece, nose and brow--even on the buckle guard and the flash attachment. This high-quality flash bridle with fancy stitching looks elegant in competition or in the schooling ring.
The Voyager Fancy-Stitched Hunter Bridle from Vespucci represents an amazing value. Well crafted as you'd expect from Vespucci, this bridle has matching laced reins and features a single padded crown, fancy- stitched, padded nose and brow and 1/2" cheeks.
The Stubben Dressage Bridle has a cut back single crown that helps alleviate pressure on the backs of your horse's ears and puts soft padding against his poll. The crank noseband and brow are both padded. Flexible rubber reins are included.
Attractive, traditional and well crafted, our Crown Clincher Bridle looks great on any horse. This flash bridle includes web/rubber reins and has a self-padded noseband.
An elegant style for the dressage arena, this Warendorf Deluxe Rolled Dressage Bridle is crafted from premium American leather. A rolled brow, cheeks, throatlatch, noseband hangers and rein fronts lend a refined look while a narrow, padded single crown complements the slender proportions of the rolled leather detailing.
Beautifully designed with a show-ready look, the Circuit Single Crown Figure 8 Bridle features a fully-padded crownpiece that reduces pressure on the horse's poll. This top-quality oakbark bridle has a raised, padded, fancy-stitched brow and a classic ring style figure 8 with flat straps and a genuine sheepskin lined center disc. Reins are included.
Beautifully made, the Showmark Padded Fancy-Stitched Bridle features a padded, contoured, recessed crown design that allows the noseband hanger to rest in a discreet channel. This bridle includes laced reins included.
The Showmark Padded Flash Bridle in premium Wickett & Craig leather has a softly padded recessed crown. This comfortable flash bridle with reins offers a great fit, long-wearing style and exceptional value.
The Rambo® Micklem Premium Competition Bridle* in super-soft, preconditioned English bridle leather is the top-of-the-line Micklem. It offers all the horse comfort and performance features you love in the original design, but in premium leather with show ring styling.
The Ovation™ Ultra Raised Padded Fancy-Stitched Bridle is show-ring ready the first time you put it on your horse. Made of rich Wickett & Craig American leather, this traditionally-styled, dark chocolate bridle is designed for both comfort and looks.
Dr. Cook's Leather Padded BitlessBridle™ is made of top-quality leather and features soft padding on the nose and brow. Developed by a veterinarian, this bitless bridle encourages kinder, more comfortable control, increased energy, more forward motion and improved balance and concentration. Matching reins are sold separately.
The Warendorf Deluxe Weymouth Bridle in Wickett & Craig American leather represents timeless style, quality and great value. This full dressage bridle with two sets of reins is classically styled with thoughtful comfort features for the horse.
In this Warendorf Deluxe Royalty Bridle, classic style meets trend-setting details. This single crown dressage bridle boasts a curved brow adorned with royal blue Austrian crystals. It's crafted from American leather and includes web rubber reins.
The Passier® Gemini Bridle features crank noseband and a browband accented with Austrian crystals. This premium quality dressage bridle with reins has traditional hook stud closures and stainless steel hardware throughout.
Our popular Crown Jawband Flash Bridle in quality leather features a softly padded, jawband flash caveson with a roller buckle. Web/rubber reins are included.
The Stubben Hunter Bridle Classic is made with the same long-lasting quality that Stubben is always associated with. Updated comfort features includes a cut-back, padded crown. Fancy-stitched nose and browband. Laced reins included.
The Dy'on® Classic Hunter Bridle is correctly styled for the American market--and it has all the attention to detail and premium workmanship for which Dy'on is known. This hunter bridle features Dy'on's anatomic single crown design for the comfort of the horse, and a padded, fancy-stitched browband and noseband. In premium English leather, it has stainless steel hardware and hook stud closures. Matching fancy-stitched reins, also with stainless steel hardware, are sold separately.
The Ovation® Comfort Crown Dressage Bridle in fine, hand-finished Italian leather ensures your horse's comfort with soft padding. Elegant and simple, this raised dressage bridle with flash has a single crown design for comfort at the poll. Rubberized web reins with leather hand stops are included.
The Horseware® Amigo® Deluxe Bridle has contoured, padded single crown design to minimize pressure on your horse's poll and eliminate discomfort behind your horse's ears. Both throatlatch and noseband are shaped and angled for comfort as well. This bridle is made from vegetable tanned leather with nickel-plated hardware. Includes rubber reins.
This Voyager Figure 8 Bridle by Vespucci combines the quality you expect from this bridle maker with an unexpected price. Handsome and classic, it has a padded single crownpiece for horse comfort, a plain, raised ring-style figure 8 nose and a matching padded brow. Rubber reins are included.
The Dy'on® Difference Bridle features an innovative crown that removes nearly all poll pressure and ensures comfort around the horse's ears. Crafted with Dy'on's renowned quality, this flash bridle is ideal for sensitive horses.
Pillow-soft padding on the Suffolk™ Premier Ultra Padded Dressage Bridle elevates this bridle to the topmost in comfort from the Suffolk collection. Full of extra features that defy its price, it boasts a contoured single crown, crank nose with flash and a variety of padding colors to suit all tastes.
Elegant rolled details make the Schockemohle Ashford Bridle stand out. It has rolled cheeks, throat and rein fronts along with a rolled browband enhanced with small silver clinchers. Single padded crown and 1" padded crank noseband with chin pad and flash. Throatlatch buckles on both sides for an optimal fit. Chrome-plated hardware and hook stud closures. Rolled front leather reins are included.
With all the quality and value that's made Crown bridlework so well received, this Crown Pony Bridle is scaled down beautifully for smaller heads. This pony bridle with reins is styled with a fancy-stitched nose and brow and a traditional crown. It's crafted from carefully chosen leather and sewn with extra-fine stitching for a great look.
The Nunn Finer Figure 8 Bridle is designed to last and is crafted in America. Long-wearing and stylish, this high-quality figure 8 bridle with buckle end cheeks has double reinforced ends, reinforced keepers and heavy-duty hardware. The padded ring style figure 8 comes with an interchangeable center with neoprene and sheepskin discs. It has a clincher brow and includes soft grip rubber reins.
This Voyager Raised Flash Dressage Bridle offers everything you love about Vespucci in a bridle you can feel great about using every day. Performance and quality are built into this great snaffle bridle, which includes leather reins. It has a raised, padded crank noseband with flash, raised brow and padded single crown.
For sparkle at an unbeatable price, you'll love the Suffolk™ Premier Bling Dressage Bridle. A padded single crownpiece provides horse comfort, while the crystal-embellished brow delivers an extra pop of style. This snaffle bridle has a padded flash noseband, 1/2" cheeks and includes grippy reins.
This Voyager Raised Dressage Bridle delivers Vespucci quality in a bridle that's perfect in every way for schooling. This great snaffle bridle with leather reins has a padded single crownpiece, classic raised styling, a padded crank noseband and matching brow.
The Vespucci Double Raised Dressage Bridle in premium English leather features an elegant double-raised brow, a padded crank noseband and a single padded crownpiece designed for horse comfort. Timelessly styled and crafted to last, this dressage bridle promises years of exceptional service.
The Dy'on Wide Nose Hunter Bridle is designed for your horse's comfort and finely crafted of premium English leather to maintain its distinctive look. Ideal for the hunter and equitation rings, this bridle features an anatomic single crown and padding on the fancy-stitched browband and noseband.
Showmark Deluxe Flash Bridle combines tradition with modern comfort features. A recessed crown design allows the noseband hanger to hide in a discreet channel. Crown is also padded against the poll and contoured around the ears.
The Ovation® Single Crown Weymouth delivers horse comfort and functionality at a great price. This affordable double bridle boasts Ovation's comfort crown. For a unique twist, the bradoon hanger is integrated into the crown, making this one of the only double bridles with a true single crown. It comes with two sets of reins and has a raised, padded nose and brow.
The Schockemohle Paris Bridle offers a classic look with a touch of style. This German-designed dressage bridle features a padded single crown, a 1 1/8" padded crank noseband with chin pad and a flash. The padded brow is enhanced with small, square crystals, and its slightly curved shape flatters all head types. The throatlatch adjusts on both sides for an optimal fit. Chrome-plated hardware, buckle ends. Web reins with hand stops are included.
The Warendorf Deluxe Refined Bridle is designed to flatter dressage horses with small or refined heads. This elegant dressage bridle has a narrow, padded single crown, 3/8" brow, slender 1/2" cheeks and small stainless steel buckles. The padded, slightly raised crank nose has a fully removable flash attachment for a clean look if a flash is not required.
For schooling or showing, this Ovation® Padded Fancy-Stitched Bridle is classically-styled in hand-finished leather. This snaffle bridle has a raised, padded, fancy-stitched brow and nose, a single crownpiece and includes matching laced reins.
The traditionally-styled Showmark Padded Fancy Pony Hunter Bridle is made of premium, soft Wicket & Craig American leather. This pony bridle with reins has a traditional crown and a padded, fancy-stitched brow and nose.
With piping options to express individual styles, this Warendorf Deluxe Piped Bridle pleases riders from the most conservative tastes to the most fashionably daring. This dressage bridle is made of American leather with contoured, padded single crown, a wide padded nose with removable flash, 5/8" cheeks and 7/8" brow. Reins are included.
The Showmark Fancy Raised Pony Hunter Bridle in premium, soft Wicket & Craig American leather represents timeless style and exceptional value. This pony bridle with reins has a traditional crown and a fancy-stitched brow and nose.
The Ovation® Fantasia Dressage Bridle is perfect for those who want to stand out! This glittery dressage bridle has a sparkly look to the crank noseband, cheeks and rein fronts. Crystals embellish the slightly curved brow and several strategic keepers. Ovation's single crown reduces poll pressure. Reins are included.
With its understated crystal browband, the Warendorf Crystal Deluxe Dressage Bridle has all the comfort features and superior craftsmanship of the original Warendorf Deluxe bridle. Web rubber reins included. Excellent quality, timeless style and great value.
The limited edition Sterling Fancy-Stitched Bridle by Dover Saddlery offers classic raised styling in trend-setting rich charcoal leather. This distinctive bridle is fully padded and designed with a single crownpiece for horse comfort. Fancy-stitched raised front reins in our signature leather are included.
The Circuit Single Crown Flash Bridle has a look that defies its price. Great features of this classic flash bridle include Circuit's signature stitch detail on the crown and cheeks, a single padded crown for horse comfort, 7/8" padded brow and 1/2" cheeks. The 1" wide padded noseband has a roller buckle backed by a leather paddle to guard against pinching.
Stylishly detailed and comfortable for the horse, the Carl Hester Rolled Snaffle Bridle features a headpiece that reduces discomfort and pressure at the ears and poll. The padded crank noseband is wide over the nose, but narrower at the sides to avoid pinching and interference with the bit. This clever dressage bridle with patent leather accents includes reins.
The ultimate Micklem! The Rambo® Micklem Premium Diamante Competition Bridle* in super-soft, preconditioned English bridle leather is the top-tier choice of the line. A row of crystals on the brow adds fashionable twinkle while soft padding on the crown, brow and nose add to the horse's comfort.
The Nunn Finer Event Bridle is made to last! This best-selling snaffle bridle is proudly crafted in the USA and features a padded 1" caveson noseband with a roller buckle, 7/8" padded browband and 5/8" cheeks with double reinforced buckle ends. Nunn Finer's popular soft grip buckle front reins are included.
The Passier® Aries Bridle with web reins offers beautiful craftsmanship and timeless style. This premium dressage bridle has a padded crank noseband with flash and a raised, self-padded browband.
The Warendorf Pony Dressage Bridle in high-quality American leather has the elegance and versatility to go from schooling to competition. Perfectly proportioned for medium/large ponies, this dressage bridle has a slightly raised padded nose and brow. 48" web/rubber reins are included.
Made to fit and flatter the stock type Quarter Horse! This Ovation® Quarter Horse Fancy Raised Padded Bridle is sized for a wider jowl and broader forehead, but without a larger noseband. Styled for the show ring and padded for horse comfort.
Made to fit and flatter, this Ovation® Draft Cross Fancy Raised Padded Bridle offers classic style in proportions to suit the wide muzzle, large throatlatch and broad brow of the draft cross. Comes with matching reins.
The Carl Hester Rolled Weymouth combines a stylish look with performance and horse comfort. This double bridle features a contoured, wide, padded crown that reduces pressure at the ears and poll. The noseband is shaped to avoid interference with the bits. Rolled details and patent leather accents offer distinctive yet classic style. Includes two sets of reins.
A bridle designed for the stock type Quarter Horse! This Ovation® Quarter Horse Plain Raised Padded Bridle has a classic look that will never go out of fashion. It's made to accommodate a wider jowl and broader forehead, but without a larger noseband. Padded for horse comfort.
Designed to flatter the refined Arabian head, this Ovation® Arabian Fancy Raised Padded Bridle with matching reins is show ring ready. It's scaled down at the muzzle and throatlatch and gently padded for horse comfort.
Redesigned with hook stud closures, the beautiful Vespucci Double Raised Weymouth is streamlined and elegant in premium English leather. This double bridle merges top quality materials with skilled craftsmanship and a commitment to horse comfort with padding in critical areas. Two sets of reins are included.
This Ovation® Arabian Plain Raised Padded Bridle is created to flatter the elegant look of the refined Arabian head. Timelessly-styled and scaled down everywhere, it's gently padded for horse comfort and includes matching reins.
This Ovation® Draft Cross Plain Raised Padded Bridle is sized proportionately to allow for a wide muzzle, large throatlatch and broad brow of the draft cross. Padded for horse comfort, this bridle is perfect for show and well suited for daily riding.
Showmark Deluxe Flash Bridle with Clincher combines tradition with modern comfort features. It has a padded, solid brass clincher browband and a padded, contoured, recessed crown design that hides the noseband hanger in a discreet channel. Reins are included.


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KKR bolsters European lending plans
US alternative asset manager Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is ramping up its efforts in the European credit market and has begun talks with investors about raising a direct lending fund for mid-market companies in the region.
KKR executives have held a series of meetings with potential investors and advisers ahead of raising a dedicated European credit fund, according to four people familiar with the matter.
If raised, the credit fund could further spur the growth of Europe's institutional lending market. In recent years, private debt funds including BlueBay Asset Management and Intermediate Capital Group have raised European credit funds, while CVC Credit Partners, the lending arm of buyout giant CVC Capital Partners, recently started raising its first direct lending fund, of €400 million.
A spokeswoman for the firm declined to comment.
Executives at Avoca Capital, the Dublin-based credit manager acquired by KKR in October last year, are also involved in the plans, said two of the people. Another person familiar with the matter said Johannes Huth, KKR's Europe, Middle East and Africa head, had mentioned the fund in recent investor meetings.
KKR is targeting between €1.5 billion and €2 billion for the direct lending fund, according to two people.
In February, KKR completed the acquisition of Avoca, and said it would use the manager to expand in European credit. At the time, the firm's co-founders, Henry Kravis and George Roberts, said they believed European credit offered a "significant opportunity", and added that $2 billion had been deployed by the firm in the past two years. In the past, New York-listed KKR has financed lending to European companies using its balance sheet. KKR has already begun lending to European mid-market companies. In April, Jesús Olmos, who heads KKR's Spanish operations, told the Wall Street Journal that the firm was looking to issue loans of more than $100 million to small and medium Spanish companies.
KKR has signalled its intent to capitalise on the lack of bank lending in Europe and is keen to grow assets under management by building its European direct lending capability, the people said.
In April, Scott Nuttall, global head of capital and asset management at KKR, said in the group's quarter one earnings call: "We do see an opportunity in Europe for direct lending. So that would be one strategy I think now, with the combined capabilities, is something we are likely to prioritise in the near term."

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By Marlena Hartz: CNJ staff writer
Curry County officials, farmers and residents identified their top alternative water plans Wednesday evening during a public meeting organized by an Albuquerque based engineering and water resource consulting firm, Daniel B. Stephens & Associates, Inc.
Though only eight of the original 11 entities remain committed, the Ute Pipeline — a $300 million project which officials say would supply communities in eastern New Mexico with water from Ute Reservoir near Logan in Quay County — was among the most popular of water development plans. Attendants also strongly supported agricultural water conservation, metering agricultural water use, and water reuse.
The informal survey of water alternatives comes at the helm of a shrinking Ogallala Aquifer. The aquifer is projected to dwindle to less than 50 feet in depth in the next 15 years, according to Daniel B. Stephens associates. When it reaches 30 feet, the aquifer will no longer be considered a viable water resource, according to the firm.
Though wheat farmer Wesley Myers adamantly defends his ownership of the water below his property, he said farmers and ranchers are "just as concerned, if not more concerned, about the aquifer than anyone, because that's our livelihood." He said farmers and ranchers have firsthand knowledge of underground water levels.
But there no easy solutions to area water needs, Myers said.
The five counties which comprise Northeast New Mexico Water Region — Curry, Roosevelt, Quay, Harding, and Union — hired Daniel B. Stephens & Associates, Inc. to help develop a state requested water plan.
"Our objective is to provide information and obtain public input on water project plans," said Daniel B. Stephens associate Janet Wolfe.
The firm will present the region's most popular water plans to a regional steering committee Nov. 17, according to Daniel B. Stephens hydrologist and project assistant manager Amy Ewing.
Ewing said the top 10 alternatives will be developed in-depth by the company, Ewing said.
Wednesday's meeting was the first of four public meetings the firm will host in northeast counties.


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I'm not sure where to put this, but she is still a newborn, so I figured here would be best.
She is 1 month old today...and has been incredibly cranky the past two days. I think this is due to 2 things. 1) she has not pooped since Monday. She has peed very well throughout the day, but no poop. Previously, she was pooping 2-6 times per day. Her doctor said it's normal to poop just every 1-3 days, but it's seems odd to go from so much to nothing. 2) she hasn't wanted to take naps the past two days. I'll get her to sleep, but she'll wake up like 30 minutes or an hour later. So I'm sure she's tired!! Yesterday she was really hungry. Feeding every hour-2 hours all day and night. Normally she's been doing every 2-4 hours. She's been spitting up a lot of her food after eating it too. She does that sometimes, but not EVERY feeding, like she's been doing the past day or so.


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July 3, 2012 —
Whenever the subject of schools comes up today, bullying is apt to be of intense concern, especially for parents of young children who are the targets of some mean kids.
Public interest is so intense that a full-length feature film called "Bully" is in theaters around the country. (Locally, the film is showing only in New York City.)
Originally, the rating on the film was "R," which means that children could not view it without being accompanied by a parent. But due to the intense interest, the producers of the film edited much of the footage so that it could receive a rating of "PG-13."
Recently, The River Reporter interviewed the district superintendent of the Wayne Highlands School District, Greg Frigoletto, along with three of his staff: middle school principal Maralyn Nalesnik, middle school assistant principal Gerard Burns Jr. and high school assistant principal Diane Scarfalloto.
The four educators began by clarifying exactly what bullying is. "Bullying is a pattern of antisocial behaviors shown to other students over time," Frigoletto said. "We have to be clear that it is not a single act of aggression toward another student. There must be a series of unacceptable behaviors. It's then that we can do something about it."
Many of the public today think that every act by one student against the other is bullying. Education has to be the first step in the process of correcting these behaviors. "There has to be a persistent, repetitive response by school officials, from the classroom teacher on up to the top administration," Burns said.
"Our school system has a school-wide policy on bullying from the elementary schools, to the middle school and the high school," Frigoletto said. "Consistency of response and immediacy are extremely important."
Students need to appreciate how destructive bulling can be and not be hesitant to report such behavior to the school authorities. If the atmosphere in the school is right, students will feel right about reporting serious bullying, they said.
While most instances of bullying are adequately handled by the schools, there can be instances where extreme examples of this behavior can be handed over to the police and the district attorney. "We've had to do this in the past and will be ready to do it again if it warrants it," Frigoletto said.
In the coming months, the county district attorney, Janine Edwards, who just took office in January, intends to work closely with the schools in developing a memo of understanding (MOU). "This will clarify the role of the DA as well as the state police, the Honesdale Borough Police and the Department of Probation," he said.
In the elementary schools where healthy instruction should begin, the school has initiated a program called School-wide Effective Behavior Support (SWEBS), which aims at positive responses rather than negative responses toward bullying incidents.
"The purpose is to build a climate of cooperation and acceptance that rewards good behaviors rather than punish unacceptable behaviors," said Nalesnik, who was once the elementary school principal. "The emphasis is on rewarding good behaviors. In SWEBS, students' good behaviors get positive points. A number of times in the year those students with positive points get a reward, like time to go outside and play a game like kick ball or some such. The students who don't have the points don't get the reward. Slowly, it starts to sink in."
"The majority of problems in high school is with the girls," Scarfalloto said. "It's not only girls, of course, but girls are hurt by words more than boys." Unlike in a former age, bullying has been made easy by modern technology, like cell phones, iPads and social media like Facebook and Twitter. "Cyberbullying is a serious problem today," Frigoletto said. "With social media, hurtful communications can proliferate since it is carried out anonymously. It encourages even good kids to do it.
"Until it becomes a school problem, we can't do much about cyberbullying," he said. As for help for parents, the district held a workshop on bullying and cyberbullying for parents, only to find that there were more educators in attendance than parents. "The parents who came got a lot out of it," Frigoletto said.
"We don't recommend parents allowing students to have free use of electronic equipment," Scarfalloto said. "Families should have a clear policy like the school does in the use of these things. A problem with social media like Facebook, a picture of a student or a remark about a student is sent to hundreds of others, even thousands of others without the original sender knowing it," she said.
The school has made in-service training available for teachers and administrators and would like to reach more parents in this regard.
"It can't be repeated enough: what is absolutely important is for the school to build a climate of acceptance and tolerance where students will not accept bullying behaviors and feel safe in talking to school staff about it," Nalesnik said.


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Watching Gourmet Grow
In the three years since Cooking Light began giving these awards, the number of small-batch food producers has grown deliriously, and so has the quality of their products.
The pickling craze of 2010 simmered down, leaving room for a burst of intricate preserves, as well as a noisy party of superb small-batch liquor and beer. Most of these items can be ordered online. Shipping can be expensive, so we favored products that deliver a uniquely regional experience or make special gifts.
We did not focus on low-fat foods: When the quality is this high, you can enjoy a little less and truly savor.


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A modern hotel near Zurich Airport
The first class Mövenpick Hotel Zurich-Airport in Glattbrugg is completely renovated, has 333 spacious bedrooms and is well known for its large variety of restaurants. The hotel is also an ideal venue to hold your meetings and conferences for up to 400 delegates, with state-of-the-art facilities. Learn more in our hotel brochure.
The hotel operates a regular free airport shuttle, which runs every 15 minutes during the main flight arrival and departure times and therefore provides an ideal base for business travellers and visitors wishing to explore Zurich and its surroundings.
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Our chic, modern collection of hotel rooms and suites are all spacious, comfortable and elegantly styled, whilst being located just 5 minutes away from Zürich Airport. All hotel rooms offer carpet or wooden flooring, along with a range of modern amenities.
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The Mövenpick Hotel Restaurant provides an array of international specialities as well as all time Mövenpick classics. The menu changes regularly with fresh ideas from the kitchen.
"le chalet" restaurant offers a variety of Swiss cuisine suitable for diners who prefer to sample typical regional dishes with a strong culinary history. Its dining menu is guaranteed to suit even the most fastidious of palettes, and meals are all served within the most elegant of surroundings.
The other restaurant within our Zurich premises is the Chinese Restaurant Dim Sum, which boasts many popular Cantonese dishes. Delightful menu choices feature roast pork, tasty beef, fresh fish, all served with a variety of side options such as noodles, spring rolls, peppers and dumplings.
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- 3 restaurants, bar and summer terrace
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- Modern Swiss cuisine
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- Large Breakfast Buffet
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event area with 13 stylish rooms can accommodate up to 400 people.
Our meeting rooms offer a flexible set-up and are equipped with the latest audio-visual and Internet technology.
Our Meetings & Events specialists are highly trained in the art of personalisation and provide one-stop, start-to-finish solutions for any event. From creative culinary ideas to the imaginative use of space, the Mövenpick Hotel Zurich-Airport is the ideal event choice.
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- Professional and individual conference service
- Natural daylight
- State-of-the-art audio visual equipment


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I am thrilled to be on the Riley Blake Design Team. And, to tell you the truth, I'm also a little intimidated to be on the team with such talented women. I've only been sewing for a couple of years and I'm still learning. I have a black table in my kitchen that gets used about 1,809,483 times a day. We eat on it. We do homework on it. I catch my kids painting their nails on it. It pretty … [Read more...]
Laminated Scalloped Tablecloth Tutorial (sewing project)!!
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How-To Geek
How To Migrate Windows 7 to a Solid State Drive
If the thought of reinstalling Windows and all your favorite apps has kept you from upgrading to a Solid State Drive (SSD), we're here to help. Read on as we show you how to migrate Windows 7 to a speedy new SSD without reinstalling everything.
Why Migrate and What Do I Need?
A casual Google search will reveal that geeks across the web are deeply divided about whether or not you should copy an existing installation or start with a fresh installation of Windows. There's very little conclusive evidence that cloning your existing HDD onto an SSD causes any issues and certainly not enough evidence for you to kill an entire day (or even a weekend or longer) installing everything from scratch and tweaking all your applications and settings.
Your time is valuable, far too valuable to waste redoing all your work chasing a phantom increase in performance. At the How-To Geek office we've been using the a cloned SSD for some time with no ill effect (and none of the headaches that come with wiping your system and starting from scratch). Migrating is an enormous time saver.
So what do you need to get started with our guide? You'll need a few things, all of which are free (save for SSD which, alas, you still won't find for less than a dollar a GB). Here are the things you'll need:
A backup of your data. We can't stress this one enough. It's completely foolish to start messing around with your HDD without a backup of all your important data. Before proceeding you need to backup your data, preferably to a location that will not be connected to the computer you're working on (a network drive, a USB drive you can unplug, etc.). Back your files up to a virtual hard drive, backup to Windows Home Server, or even get backup tips from fellow readers. While you're at it make sure you're backing up the right files from your Windows installation. Whatever you do, though, make sure your files are backed up!
A copy of Defraggler and CCleaner. We're going to do a little tidying before we clone.
A copy of Clonezilla or EaseUS Parition Manager. Read through the guide to determine which is the best fit for you.
An SSD installed in your computer case. We're not going to cover physically installing your drive; however, we have a great guide to installing a new HDD that you can use to get up to speed before continuing.
A Windows 7 system repair disk. This is a just-in-case tool. On the off chance that you're Master Boot Record gets corrupted, you'll be able to pop in the Windows 7 repair disk and fix it in a matter of minutes. Read how to create one here. Don't forget to print off a copy of our guide to repairing the bootloader so you're ready to fix it if you need to. No really. Do it. Burn that CD and print that article—having it on hand will save you the hassle of finding another computer to create the boot CD on if you need it.
Cleaning House Before the Clone
Before we start the cloning process there are several key cleaning steps we need to go through to prepare our hard drive for the migration. We've already said it, but we'll say it again. Backup your data before proceeding.
Par back your files. If you have a packed 200GB HDD and a new 120GB SSD, there's no physical way to fit all that data onto the new drive. You need to do some trimming. Copy big media files to a secondary drive, archive large projects just sitting around in your My Documents folder, look to see if there are any large applications you're no longer using (games are notorious space hogs, uninstall games you're no longer interested in). If you're feeling ambitious, now would be a good time to set up symbolic links to move your My Documents folder to a secondary drive.
SSDs operate better with extra space (their wear-leveling algorithms can operate at peak efficiency with space to spare) so aim to trim your HDD contents back to about 80% of your future SDD's capacity—if you have a 120GB SSD, try to trim your HDD contents back to 90GBs or so).
Run CCleaner. After you've removed files, uninstalled apps you no longer use, and otherwise swept out data that was wasting precious disk space, it's time to run CCleaner. For the unfamiliar CCleaner is a system cleaning tool that deletes all manner of unneeded files (recycling bin files, old temp files, cache files, etc.) that clutter up your system. It's not unusual, on a heavily used system, for CCleaner to find 5GB+ to clean out.
Run Defraggler. Once you've deleted as much as possible (both manually and with CCleaner) it's time to finish tidying the disk. Defraggler, another free app from the same company that produces CCleaner, is a powerful disk defragmentation tool. We're going to give Windows one last defragmentation for the road. Once you switch to using an SSD defragmenting will be a thing of the past. None the less, we want to clone a drive with as little fragmentation as possible. Fire up Defraggler and defragment your primary disk.
Update Your Firmware
SSDs are, technologically, the new kid on the block. Several of the earliest generation SSDs had various bugs and issues which were only banished with significant firmware updates. Each drive company has their own technique for updating firmware—some require you to reboot with a special CD to flash the firmware and some allow you to flash the firmware from within Windows if the drive is not the primary OS drive. OCZ, the manufacturer of the drive we used for this tutorial, has one of the aforementioned in-Windows tools (seen in the screenshot above). Visit the the website of your drive manufacturer to read more about your drive and how to update the firmware. Now is the absolute best time to update the firmware as there is zero risk of data loss (the drive is completely bare).
Aligning The Sectors on Your SSD
At this point you should have your data backed up and you should have your files backed up, the crud cleaned out by CCleaner, and the disk defragmented by Defraggler. Now it's time to perform the most arcane part of the whole process. Traditional hard disk drives have platters inside (physical disks that spin). These hard disk platters are divided into sectors. There are no platters (or even moving parts) inside a Solid State Drive but Windows continues to use the sector-based organization, regardless.
If you install Windows 7 directly onto an SSD (instead of cloning, as we're doing) the installation program makes sure that everything is aligned properly and that the outmoded sector-based system works fine on the SSD. If you clone onto an SSD from a HDD, however, there is a very high probability that the alignment will be off. What this means, in practical terms, is that you will radically increase your SSD read/writes and decrease performance because of the poor alignment. You'll be wearing out and slowing down the drive, all over something as tiny as data misalignment.
Many early adopters cloned their disks and then, post cloning, found out that the alignment of their drives were off. Once you've gone to all the trouble of copying your data, the only good way to fix the alignment is to use the GParted Live CD to do so. We're going to make life way easier and cut down on the hassle and number of reboots necessary by setting up the partitions and alignment before we clone.
Before you continue, you need to be sure you have your SSD properly installed in your computer. If so, it's time to fire up DISKPART. To properly use DISKPART, we need to open up a command prompt in Windows 7 with elevated privileges. To do so navigate to All Programs –> Accessories and right click on Command Prompt; select Run as administrator (alternately you can type cmd in the run box and press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER).
Once the prompt is open type in the following commands, in the following order. Read the commands and the accompanying notation very carefully or you will erase the wrong disk.
List disk
Select disk n (where n is your SSD's number as provided by the previous command)
Create partition primary align=1024
Now your SSD is ready to rock; it's properly set up and aligned.
Cloning Your SSD
There are two easy and free techniques you can use to clone your SSD drive. When it doubt, use the second technique.
My primary partition is smaller than my SSD. If your SSD drive is bigger than the operating system partition you're cloning (i.e. you've got a 120GB SDD and you're going to clone a smaller partition onto from your current OS disk) then Clonezilla is a great open-source choice. Rather than rehash how to use Clonezilla, we'd recommend you check out our very detailed guide to using it here. Read the whole guide but pay special attention to the Local Device to Local Device cloning; that's the technique you want to use to clone your HDD partition to your SSD partition. It's as easy as rebooting with the Live CD, clicking a few items, and then waiting for a couple minutes while everything copies. No fuss.
My primary partition is bigger than my SSD. If your SSD drive is smaller than the operating system partition you're cloning, Clonezilla won't play nice (it, very strictly, will only go from bigger to smaller and has no tools for shaving down a too-large partition). In this case, since we're already working in Windows, we can use EaseUS Partition Master, a free and simple to use cloning tool—you can use this application whether you fit into either the former or latter partition situation we just outlined, by the way. Partition Master will resize partitions as necessary, the only requirement is that you have a small enough volume of data to fit onto the new SSD. So, for example, you can clone a 200GB partition with 80GB of data onto a 120GB SSD with no problem; Partition Magic will dynamically resize the partition during the cloning process.
To get started run the application and highlight your current OS disk. Select Copy partition from the left-hand navigation panel. This will launch the Partition wizard which will in turn prompt you to select which disk you want to copy your OS disk to. Select your SSD. Double check your selection before pressing Next. Click through until the end of the wizard until you reach the Finish button. Back in the main window click the Apply button in the upper left corner. Your computer will reboot and the cloning process will take place.
Once the cloning process has completed, boot down your machine and unplug your original HDD (the source of the clone). Reboot your computer (this is the point where you may need to use the Windows recovery CD if the Master Boot Record has been corrupted). On some motherboards you may need to plug the new primary drive into the exact same SATA port the old primary drive was on—we didn't, but you may.
Booting Back Into Windows and Tweaking Your SSD
Once you are back into Windows, running off your brand new SSD of course, it's time to go through and toggle a variety of settings. When you do a fresh Windows 7 to SSD installation Windows toggles these settings for you. Ideally Windows 7 should detect the SSD and make the proper changes but we're not going to take any chances when it only takes a few minutes to check. You can re-run the "Windows Experience" program to toggle some of the settings but doing so takes just about as many clicks as checking those settings yourself.
Make sure TRIM is turned on. TRIM is a special set of commands that help SSDs effectively manage empty space on the disk (if you're curious you can read more here). Open up the command prompt and type in the following command:
fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify
This lengthy command has a very simple output, either a 0 or a 1. If you get a 1, TRIM is not enabled. If you get a 0, TRIM is enabled. If you need to enable it type the following command:
fsutil behavior set DisableNotify 0
Turn off defragmentation. There is no need to defragment an SSD and doing so on a regular basis will radically shorten the life of your drive. Open the start menu and, in the run box, type dfrgui to open the Disk Defragmenter. Click on the Schedule button and then uncheck Run on a schedule (recommended). Your days of running a defragmenter are over.
Turn off indexing. Driving indexing is a relic of the HDD age. SDD drives are so lightening fast you don't need a file index to help offset drive lag. You're wasting time and disk read/writes by leaving it on. Go to My Computer, right click on your new SSD drive, and uncheck Allow files on this drive to have contexts indexed… to turn off the indexing. This will, annoyingly, probably take a little while. Windows is going to scan the entire drive and toggle the file permissions on all the files. We got a cup of coffee while we waited.
A word on other SSD tweaks and tricks. Be cautious about tweaking beyond these simple fixes. Many SSD guides suggest increasing performance by turning off the Superfetch (dubious evidence that this tweak improves performance at all) or disabling the page file (decreases writes to the SSD but at a steep cost; if you run out of RAM the applications that need that RAM will crash). The tweaks we've suggested here will definitely increase performance and with no negative side effects. Proceed with caution deploying tweaks you find in other guides and in discussion forum posts. That said…
Congratulations! You've cloned your disk, saved yourself hours of reinstalling Windows and customizing your apps, and you're ready to enjoy a faster and quieter system disk.
Comments (27)
What..? No mention of changing to AHCI mode, one of the most important things about using an SSD?
You lose so much performance being in IDE, it's absurd.. Depending on the SSD and type of data being transferred, it can be as much as half the possible speed if running in IDE.
Also, where's the mention of turning off superfetch?
AHCI should be on… why would you still use IDE in this day and age?
I had my HDD's on AHCI… as you should.
BTW, its smarter and easier to just do a fresh install. It feels great xD
After reading this, I decided that if I can ever upgrade to an SSD I'm just gonna do a fresh install. But thanks…
This assumes you have a computer with an empty hard drive bay. What if you have a laptop with only one harddrive slot?
wow…perfect timing for this. i just got my SSD in the mail today :D
I had problems switching to AHCI with my HDs.
Running Gigabyte 880GA.
I could never get Windows 7 to finish loading.
Any ideas?
I personally feel that a fresh install is better. I keep my data separate from the OS and I keep all my program installation files in one place. Some people however,don't even have their windows install disk, so I can see why they would want to simply clone.
Some cloning tools will not respect the alignment of your SSD so aligning it before cloning may be futile. Can you confirm that the two mentioned here will not require you to realign the SSD after cloning?
Consider a tool designed for this purpose. Use Paragon Migrate OS to SSD to perform a sector level copy of a HDD to an SSD. It's alignment aware, and also allows for excluding any files or folders you wish to exclude from the migration, great when migrating to a smaller SSD. If alignment is the only need look at PAT, there's also a PAT free scan version available for download at paragon-downloads.
If I can upgrade to an SSD, I will definitely do an fresh install of Windows and applications..
In that way, I am sure my system is really clean and fast.
I did not like my original HDD of 1 Tera @5400RPM. I decided to go to an SSD (256 Go). I purchased an external USB 3.0 enclosure for 2.5″ drives with my SSD hard drive. Using Acronis, I cloned my OS from laptop HDD to the SSD. The next step was just switching HDDs following ASUS instructions. Suddenly I was back in business. Total time 30 minutes plus Cloning time which was done when I was doing something else. I liked it so much I did the same on my older laptop to improve significantly speed and performance. But what is AHCI mode?? any pointers to check if it is selectable or available on my laptop?
My computer has 2 hard drives in a RAID 0 configuration. If I replace these drives with 2 SSD's will this procedure work?
Yes, you can make a RAID with SSD's, but some features will be then disabled. Google for more info.
Personally I would recommend using only one SSD.
I've done this more than a few times, but I used Acronis True Image Home 2011 and 2012 with the Power Pack Accessory. The Power Pack allows you to restore to Unlike Equipment and the Migration from a Bigger Drive to a Smaller Drive goes very smoothly. I did set AHCI mode in my BIOS in advance.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager 11 includes the Migrate OS to SSD functionality, and includes Paragon's Adaptive Restore support for cases where dissimilar hardware is present, or when changing IDE/AHCI modes. Adaptive restore is included with Hard Disk Manager by default, at no additional cost.
+1 for Paragon's "Migrate OS to SSD"… works beautifully!
You have to edit some keys in the registry when going from IDE to AHCI. Google it :)
Rez – The article mentioned Superfetch, but actually recommended not turning it off.
Thaks for the article, as I was thinking of replacing my HDD with an SDD.
@Xsever: If you mean you were running in IDE mode and switched to ACHI after you had installed Windows, you need to change the registry aswell.
Set to IDE, boot normally, backup registry, modify (follow instructions on MS link above), reboot, BIOS – AHCI, Windows, enjoy
Does this work if I am running a custom bootloader (TrueCrypt)?
Wow. This article makes things way harder than they need be. I'm not sure if the folks at The Geek are aware of this, but Windows 7 is fully SSD aware. Fully. That means that awareness extends to the Windows 7 backup and restore utility and its built in disk image function. You can try and verify for yourself, but I promise that this is a true thing. What this means is that if you are migrating an existing Windows 7 installation from a standard hard disk to an SSD, you do NOT need Clonezilla or EaseUS Partition Manager, and you do NOT need to use diskpart to align the partitions. Really.
After reading this article I was filled with doubt about what I thought I knew, so I set about verifying that what I thought I knew was right. And here's what I thought I knew (and have verified to be so.)
A Windows 7 system image generated by the Windows 7 backup and restore utility from a Windows 7 installation on a standard hard disk is properly aligned automatically when that image is used to migrate/restore the Windows 7 OS to a solid state disc. How did I verify this? Well, I checked the Dell Latitude E6500 that sits on my desk which was set up in exactly this way. Partitions are aligned properly. Then I called a friend for whom I had just a few weeks ago migrated an existing Windows 7 installation from a Western Digital Scorpio Black 320 gig drive to a Samsung 470 SSD just a few weeks ago and had him check the partition offset. It was perfect. (1048576.) And then I checked half a dozen assorted other laptops and desktops I had migrated from spinning hard disks to SSDs using Win 7's own backup and restore generated system image and in each and every case the SSD was aligned properly.
If you have Win 7, you don't need Clonezilla or EaseUS or Acronis or Ghost. All you need is Win 7. Boot with the Wi n 7 OS DVD or a recovery disc and restore the system image to the new drive. That's it. Check for yourself.
The advice on things like defrag? Good advice, but you don't need Defraggler or any third party software for that either. Win 7's defrag consolidates free space. You can verify this by running Win 7's defrag from as an admin from the command prompt. (CMD–>run as administrator) Run defrag /c /u /v
Yes, clear all the temp files. Disable hibernation. Reduce the swap file (but don't turn it off completely.) Run Win 7's defrag from the command prompt. Shrink the partition (if needed to make it fit on the new SSD.) Generate a system image on an external USB or eSATA (if your system supports booting with eSATA) drive. Install your SSD and restore the system image. That's it.
Sorry for the spelling and grammatical errors in the comment above. It's late and I typed all that on the fly without proofreading before submitting the comment.
One more thing…
Anyone wanting to verify the partition offset for their disk can certainly fire up diskpart and go through the steps to get to the info they are looking for, or they can skip a step or two and use one of these methods:
At the command line, type (or copy and paste) the following (and hit enter): wmic partition get BlockSize, StartingOffset, Name, Index
Or just type MSINFO32 in the search box from the start menu, hit enter and when MSINFO32 runs, go to components–>storage–>disks and read down the list until you see "partition staring offset." If that offset is 1048576 on your SSD, you're golden.
Dollar for dollar, pound for pound, this upgrade is the most valuable I have ever done. For years, I was upgrading processors, motherboards, memory… still had a sucky, slow system. I built my Windows 7 on an SSD and all I can say is… WOW… I finally get the performance I have always dreamed of. From power on to login … about 20 seconds. From sleep to login… about five seconds. No more waiting for Microsoft to blink your disk drive lights while it troubles itself over bad sectors. If you're looking for speedy response from your system, it is WELL worth the investment.
@Roman Berry: For what it's worth, Roman, I actually set out to write the original version of this article using *only* the built-in Windows 7 cloning tools. They failed on two different drives/computers which led me to seek out alternatives. If they worked for you that's awesome. I was *really* disappointed they didn't work for me.
I wanted to do a clean install on my new SSD drive 2 weekends ago. I only had an upgrade Win7 disk. I ended up installing Win XP on it , then immediately installing a clean (Custom) installation of Win7 over this.
I ended up with an experience index of 6.3. Thats with sata 2 controllers and the OCZ Agility3 (same drive mentioned in this article.) . I have been installing most programs to the reformatted "old" drive and also use this "old" drive to store downloads , pix, etc. Speed sensitive proggies are of course on the SSD (games).
My question : Is there anything further, short of a new hardware , I need to do , at this point.
I have installed Windows 7 on my HDD over a year ago. I was having some troubles with my computer. I had a backup copy of the hdd. I installed the copy of being on 5 DVDs .Now i have a 200Gig of use of a 320Gigs of Hard drive. Is there a way without installing a clean OS copy, without using all of this backup space that is on that old HDD. I think i have a 80GB SDD here to install the Windows 7 onto.
@Jason Fitzpatrick: You were using Win 7 SP1? I know it seems like a silly question as I have no doubt that you were, but in the interests of trying to understand why it (Win 7's built in imaging and restore function) works for me in migrating and properly aligning an install from a standard hard drive to a solid state disc but not for you, I figured it was safer to ask than assume.


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Balls! I'm a big fan of his vocals. Of the various bands the new vocalist has been with, I've only heard The Faceless, and I didn't enjoy what I heard. It'll be interesting to see where they go with this.
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#162751 - 10/23/06 02:20 PM Grammar
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There was a wonderful article in the Washington Post this morning that gave me heart about the education level of the next generation:
Clauses and Commas Make a Comeback.
Thank goodness!
Of course, this is just for US schools. I'd be interested in knowing if grammar lessons vanished from other countries' schools as well.
#162752 - 10/24/06 11:46 AM Re: Grammar
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Loc: British Columbia, Canada
They did from Canada and while I was grateful at the time I regret it now.
#162753 - 10/24/06 05:18 PM Re: Grammar
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Maybe they just put grammar teaching on hold till they figured out what the rules really were.
#162754 - 10/30/06 01:11 AM Re: Grammar
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Posts: 2788
Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA
Thanks be to God. Now, if they would just restore the teaching of history in the Mother Country, that would be a sign that the world was not about to end.
#162755 - 10/30/06 05:36 AM Re: Grammar
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Now, if they would just restore the teaching of history in the Mother Country, that would be a sign that the world was not about to end.
Might could consider teaching it here, too.
Hint: Who won the War of 1812?
#162756 - 10/30/06 06:30 AM Re: Grammar
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Posts: 6511
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Maybe they just put grammar teaching on hold till they figured out what the rules really were.
Just observe any three-year-old.
#162757 - 11/01/06 06:57 AM Re: Grammar
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 5295
Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
As we are faithful followers of American novelties, the great sack of the grammar system took place here as well. Half way down the seventies.
Same thing, same complaints. University students unable to write a clear article and teachers not knowing the rules themselves.
We have a yearly national dictation contest on TV (the Grand Dictation of Dutch language) between Dutch and Flemisch- Belgian pariticipants which is practically always won by the Belgians. (who stayed more conservative in their education system)
Watchers of the program can join in at home.
I's fun to participate, not easy, very fast . All reading signs count.
It's about 30 lines long and the avarage failure rate on spellng and reading signs sits around 30. The big Winner mostly had one or two mistakes.
I hope we too will find a repair for two generations lost in grammar
#162758 - 11/01/06 02:13 PM Re: Grammar
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Might could consider teaching it here, too.
The teaching of history in the US of A has fallen prey to a kind of political correctness which so warps the process that perhaps it is better left untaught.
#162759 - 11/01/06 09:54 PM Re: Grammar
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Well said, Father Steve. Sad, but well said.
#162760 - 11/03/06 09:07 PM Re: Grammar
Registered: 10/30/06
Posts: 293
Loc: Orlando
University students unable to write a clear article and teachers not knowing the rules themselves.
On a similiar note: I have a son in college.
His written assignments must be submitted in hardcopy and electronically.
I asked why and learned of a web resource the professors at his University use to detect plagurism. The electronic version is submitted to a site that automatically compares blocks of text to known sources.
Technology has taken away our need to learn to add, spell, form proper sentences.
But it is interesting that it also simplifies the detection of cheating!_________________________
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