Intel X25 ordered - Windows 7 - Ghost

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Ok, I have taken a Ghost image of my current machanical drive. Is it ok just to transfer the image to the new SSD drive and wqill it work or do I have to install anything else?
 
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i consider that abuse of a beautiful new drive :D !!

im no expert on hard drives, but for a lovely new shiny SSD its gotta be a clean install, plug your current one in as a data drive and yank the data across, you really wanna keep the new SSD install to a minimum so doing a clean install will best aid you in that.
 
Ghost may not align the partitions correctly, 1024k offset with a 4096k cluster. It should be ok, but if not, it's no great loss in performance.

Also a clean install of Windows 7 should change settings (which it doesn't always do anyway - such as disable defrag, superfetch, prefetch, readyboot etc) when it detects an SSD. You'll no doubt have to do this manually if you use a Ghost image.
 
i thought it was just defrag, as windows detects its win7 and does the rest for you? make sure you do the firmware update as soon as your done to enable TRIM
 
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i thought it was just defrag, as windows detects its win7 and does the rest for you? make sure you do the firmware update as soon as your done to enable TRIM
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Nope it's the other way round, defrag is the only one it regularly disables. The others it generally doesn't. Do a search on the forum for the exact tweaks, there's a couple of threads in the last month or so with the details. TBH defrag is the main one, the others you can take or leave.
 
Are you sure? Did it show your SSD in the "select disks" list when creating a schedule?

Windows 7 won't stop the service and will still allow you to run a manual defrag on an SSD, but it won't normally setup or list SSDs for auto defragmenting.
 
Ok, I am having problems updating the firmware which is currently 045C8820

Downloaded the 110902HD88208850.ISO 2.76 MB (2,899,968 bytes) from the INTEL web site

Burn this to CDR using Nero

Restart the PC and boot to the newly created CD ROM. It starts loading and then stops, complaining about a bad or missing command.com /p

Command.com is on the disk
The config.sys line is SHELLHIGH=A:\command.com /P

So what gives, is it the wrong ISO image, has Nero cocked up, have I missed somit

UPDATE:

Managed to get the firmware to run but it said I alsready had the latest firmware but Crystal report TRIM is greyed out
 
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For the record, I used WD's Data Lifeguard Tools to 'clone' my HD to SSD, after I partitioned the SSD with a 32k offset. It was an XP system, so I turned off background indexing and defrag, and turned on AHCI. My highest AS SSD bench was 407 on an X25 Gen 1 drive. (That's a good bench).
 
Looks like you only have a gen1 50nm drive, which doesn't have any newer firmware than 8820, and thus doesn't support TRIM (probably won't ever)
 
So a bit of a **** up on my part :( Saying that I did not pay full retail

So I assume I need the Itel ToolBox when its re-released?
 
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