Enabling trim

Doosh

Doosh

Doosh

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sorry for the daft question- but I should have a Crucial C300 64gb SSD land on the doormat tomorrow and would obviously like to take advantage of the trim function.

I wont be doing a clean install though, I'll just copy over from the current drive, so can I still enable trim afterwards or is it a one time only deal during a fresh install?

cheers
 
If you clone a HDD install onto an SSD the partition alignment will be incorrect causing a significant performance loss. As Azuse05 said, clean install.
 
Doosh said:
Ok, clean install it is.

Is trim automatically enabled when you select ACHI?
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AHCI disk controller mode + fresh installation of Windows 7 will set everything up automatically for you.

When you go through the Windows 7 setup, don't manually create a partition. Just select the disk and tell it to install on it.
 
I used a combination of both ...


1. created a acronis image of my current C drive
2. stuck in me new shiney ssd
3. booted pc with windows 7 disk, allowed it to partition drive and start the install of windows to the SSD, waited until first reboot.
4. then loaded acronis boot disk and loaded the image I created of my original onto the new c partition on the SSD
!WARNING! if you created the first image WITH the hidden boot partition ,ONLY restore the c drive NOT the hidden partition as well, that way the alignment will be correct.

Might to be the most elegant solution , but it is a lot faster than
having to re-install everything from scratch, I h ave about 30+ apps and would be a massive waste of time to have to re-install them again
 
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