Wiper Program Problem?

lettuce · 27 Aug 2009 at 18:14

I have just done a fresh install of Windows 7 on my new OCZ Agility SSD 120GD disk, i have only installed my nvidia drivers and AVG. i have download wiper 0525 (is this the latest version), i run the wiper.exe file and it asks me to press 'y' is i agree to the terms, upon pressing 'y' i get the following message

Wiper cant be run on drive a:\
Wiper cant be run on drive b:\

etc all the way to drive J:\

and then says,

"wiper cant be run on all drives in this system
to exit, press any key"

why isnt wiper running properly, i dont have to disconnect all my other harddrives do i in order to run wiper?

ChileanLlama · 27 Aug 2009 at 18:27

Are you running it on a RAID controller?

lettuce · 27 Aug 2009 at 18:31

Nah, i just figured it out, i need to run it as administrator.

Another question, i understand that windows 7 by default should disable:

Superfetch
Defragger

But i should also turn off:

windows search indexing service
drive indexing

In order to get the best performance out of the SDD, where can i find these options in Windows 7 to turn off?

ChileanLlama · 27 Aug 2009 at 18:37

Windows 7 will disable those programs running on SSD drives, but won't disable the services as they will be used if you also have traditional HDs.

You can turn off the indexing due to the raw speed of the SSD in searching, but you won't see much of a difference in performance.