Just got my SSD :D (Help needed)

Xein · 12 Apr 2011 at 11:49

I've not long received it and have installed it a long with a new mobo and ram, just wanting to know what I should do before installing windows?

I've seen a couple of other threads but just wanting some advice on what to do and whether its okay just to install windows straight away.

Thanks

|Thomas| · 12 Apr 2011 at 11:57

Check in the bios that your sata ports are set to AHCI mode, not IDE, before you start the windows install. Other than that you should be good to go

Philtor · 12 Apr 2011 at 11:57

This thread should cover what you need to know mate.

Xein · 12 Apr 2011 at 11:57

|Thomas| said:
Check in the bios that your sata ports are set to AHCI mode, not IDE, before you start the windows install. Other than that you should be good to go

Thanks

Will do that now

@Phil Thanks as well

dunnyuk · 12 Apr 2011 at 12:33

good tip thomas.

ewarwoowar · 12 Apr 2011 at 12:55

What I do on a fresh SSD install

1.Make sure AHCI is enabled. If you install on IDE/SATA then you can do a regedit then reboot and it installs the drivers.
2.Disable disk defrag
3.Disable pre/superfetch
4.Disable windows search.
5.Make my paging file a little smaller.
6.Delete and disable hibernate
7.Disable system restore
8.I sometimes move my TEMP files to my storage drive