Pics of stuff we bought in November!

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This should be fun once I find my Windows 7 disc.
 
Clone over using Acronis 12. I did just that on the same SSD^ and it's perfect.
 
mrk said:
Clone over using Acronis 12. I did just that on the same SSD^ and it's perfect.
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Searched Google and found a thread by you about it :D
My drive with Windows on is currently 326/500GB, how would I go about cloning that to a 120GB drive? Just keeping Windows.
 
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Use Space Sniffer to note down what exactly is using so much space and then do some jiggery pokery. Turning off System Restore, Hibernation and forcing the Pagefile to a fixed smaller size will saved many GB of space as well and is advised for SSD usage.

The sensible and ideal solution is to never keep personal documents and media on the OS drive, always keep it on another drive just for data storage. Windows 7 is super easy when it comes to mapping the media/doc folders to another location so if you have another HDD kicking around then do that first. That will free up a lot of space.

Secondly, if you have large games then bung them on another drive as well, while some games load faster off an SSD the difference isn't that huge compared to the absolutely massive difference in OS and software software performance within Windows and booting up. You can use Symlinks in STEAM to move installed games to another drive and STEAM will see them via symlinks easily :)

Keep the OS drive managed and maintain it regularly and your OS should never need a "fresh" install because it will always be fresh ;)
 
Sim, 2 things, sarcasm passes you like a wafty fart and you don't know about the post edit button :p


Skyfall said:
Errr, I think you'll find I have the PSD:

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Huh, I don't know if you're trolling me :p But why is Quicktime set to open your PSDs?

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mrk said:
Use Space Sniffer to note down what exactly is using so much space and then do some jiggery pokery. Turning off System Restore, Hibernation and forcing the Pagefile to a fixed smaller size will saved many GB of space as well and is advised for SSD usage.

The sensible and ideal solution is to never keep personal documents and media on the OS drive, always keep it on another drive just for data storage. Windows 7 is super easy when it comes to mapping the media/doc folders to another location so if you have another HDD kicking around then do that first. That will free up a lot of space.

Secondly, if you have large games then bung them on another drive as well, while some games load faster off an SSD the difference isn't that huge compared to the absolutely massive difference in OS and software software performance within Windows and booting up. You can use Symlinks in STEAM to move installed games to another drive and STEAM will see them via symlinks easily :)

Keep the OS drive managed and maintain it regularly and your OS should never need a "fresh" install because it will always be fresh ;)
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Ah Space Sniffer is brilliant :D

Deleted all Steam games I don't play and saved about 100GB. Moved all movies to a different drive. Nearly enough space to clone :)
I'm going to keep CSS and BF3 on the SSD, faster level loading is what I want.

I normally keep a new Windows install really fresh, then after a month or so I stop caring.

Thanks for the help :)
 
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