Installing Win7 64 on new SSD performance woes

[Domo]

I've just installed a new 80GB Intel 320 series SSD into my Toshiba Portege R500.
Checked in BIOS to make sure AHCI is selected.

So far it's taken 15 mins to get to 36% when expanding Windows files.

I've seen posts on here saying it installs much much quicker. Yes, my laptop is a couple of years old (maybe as old as 3) but this isn't consistent with what others are saying.

Any ideas?

 

[DragonQ]

Did you install Windows to the raw drive space or did you create a partition manually? If you did the latter, the partition won't be aligned, which'd reduce performance.

 

[Domo]

Did you install Windows to the raw drive space or did you create a partition manually? If you did the latter, the partition won't be aligned, which'd reduce performance.

Nope - didn't create a partition. It appears to have picked up speed - now at 84% since I posted.

 

[Domo]

It might be the transfer speed between optical drive and HDD? Plus it only has 2GB RAM installed.

 

[OLDPHART]

A partion should not make any difference, basicly you treat it as a normal HD just set your Bios to AHCI, my SSD was split 50/50 > OS/Games. l just used a small utility called SSD Tweak after my OS was set up, had no problems at all with it.

 

[Domo]

All seems OK - overall installation took about 30-35 mins in the end. Expanding files took ages so will put it down to file transfer rate