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Yet another.. I fitted a 160GB intel SSD question thread.

Dinkas said:
If your drive has the latest firmware and is correctly aligned, then as suggested above, all you need is the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver and Intel SSD Toolbox. TRIM will be automatic, but there's no harm running the toolbox every week or two. Use the SSD and enjoy :)
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Thanks for the update. I am grateful. The latest firmware shown on the drive is 02HA.

a. Do I need to go to the next revision?
b. In general how does one know that it is aligned? Is there a tool or do I take it that my readings given above indicate it is?

Edited. Downloaded and ran the toolbox with this firmware, so it appears I do not need the next revision!
 
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Dinkas

Thanks again.....

Here is my info:

Intel
2CV102HA
pciide
40162 K-BAD <-----
149.05 GB

I presume this means there is a slight misalignment at 4K?

Perhaps firmware upgrade will fix this?

if not:

Create partition on another drive of same size as the SSD backup to it and then clone back:
a. Using Acronis?
b. Windows backup and restore?

Remember I used norton ghost last time because windows restore would not let me do it because the 160gb ssd was smaller than the 500gb, although there was only 42gb of data on it.

Work around? Perhaps if I use windows backup from SSD to partition on 500GB of say only 100gb then clone back to SSD of 160gb this should work?

I am not going to reinstall windows7 again because of the all the other program hassles.
 
Sorry pls forgive me for being rude but you said you used to be IT pro?!?!

I think you simply can't be bothered to reinstall win7, shame you paid that money and not getting full potential from the SSD

Reinstall win7, just do it. Its better than sex
 
@GunRunner, according to this it is possible to use Windows 7's built-in backup to create an image, and the Windows installation DVD to restore the image and auto-magically align the partition correctly.
 
wesley said:
Sorry pls forgive me for being rude but you said you used to be IT pro?!?!
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No I will not excuse you for being rude! This is a place where people come for help and also those people contribute back to the forum in other areas of their expertise.

Dinkas said:
@GunRunner, according to this it is possible to use Windows 7's built-in backup to create an image, and the Windows installation DVD to restore the image and auto-magically align the partition correctly.
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Thanks for this link. I was at the point yesterday when it would not let me restore because of disk size. I knew I should have stopped there, but as I have Norton Ghost and Acronis I chose the easy option because I have used Ghost many times before when I ran my own IT company back in 1993. Anyway thanks to others who also contributed.

Kind regards
 
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GunRunner said:
No I will not excuse you for being rude! This is a place where people come for help and also those people contribute back to the forum in other areas of their expertise
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i am very sorry for helping you by telling you the advice i could give you but you wont listen

the only proper way is reinstall. SSD is very different from hard drive. full stop.

if reinstall is IMPOSSIBLE for you then you'll have 2 options ;

1) return the SSD and get full refund as you will never get full potential from the SSD

or

2) put up with crappy write speed, my SSD cost nearly twice less and write about 80mb/s MORE than yours.

i am very sorry x x x x
 
wesley said:
i am very sorry for helping you by telling you the advice i could give you but you wont listen
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No you were not helping me, you told me you were being rude! How did you expect me to respond?

wesley said:
my SSD cost nearly twice less and write about 80mb/s MORE than yours.

i am very sorry x x x x
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So you can see my account and how much I paid?
 
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Sorry for butting in here but i just ran SSD benchmark any my info came up as...

Corsair
1.0
pciide
31 K - BAD
56.24 GB

Making the assumption that the alignment is BAD. How would one go about fixing this?
 
Semple said:
Sorry for butting in here but i just ran SSD benchmark any my info came up as...

Corsair
1.0
pciide
31 K - BAD
56.24 GB

Making the assumption that the alignment is BAD. How would one go about fixing this?
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What OS are you using? If Windows 7 then do what GunRunner did? I don't know if it's the most elegant solution, but obviously it works and is relatively failsafe.

If using XP or Vista then try reading this. Vista does automagically align partitions properly like Windows 7, however, I can't remember if it has as useful a backup and restore ability.

Regardless, you should image the drive before attempting any method of realignment (except for clean install of course!).
 
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