Formating SSD Question

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I recently got a SSD and I am wondering is there a different way of formatting it?

The way I do it is, when installing Windows 7 I delete the old partition and create a new one. Windows says it will make an extra partition for it's self (system partition I think) a 100mb one and one to install windows on, and that's it. Is this wrong?

Would it be better to just leave partitions alone and just format the windows parition and install from there? or is it worth deleting and letting windows make brand new partitions?

Is there anything one can do to brick the ssd during this process?
 
When starting the install of Windows 7, do not manually create any partitions. Tell it to install to the blank SSD. It will set everything else up for you.
 
As you just bought the SSD it is currently not formatted and will have no partition created. It is in it's RAW state. Just go ahead and create a new partition when you first install it. Like you said Windows 7 will create the extra 100MB one and then install it as you would a normal HDD. Windows 7 optimises itself for SSD's anyway, disables defrag etc.

Also feel free to manually create partitions if you wish too, it will do no harm what so ever to the SSD. I would personally leave it as one though and use other HDD's as the primary source for storage.
 
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