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WilliamP

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I have built a new computer with 3 SATA HDD's. I have my system on one drive and a Ghost 2003 image on another drive. I am planning to covert my system drive.to a SSD. I am running Windows XP and I am not sure what I need to do. How do I prepair the SSD for install? Can I prepair the SSD, then Ghost the image from my Ghost drive to the SSD?
 
XP doesn't have native support for TRIM, so you need to rely on Intel's software, which isn't optimal. I recommend upgrading to Windows 7 if you want to use an SSD.
 
You can do it with Xp. Just download the intel utility and run the cleaner every month or so.
 
WilliamP said:
If you would like to send me a Windows 7 disk I will try it.
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Talking about piracy on these forums is frowned upon.

What people are trying to tell you is it is not worth your time to run Win XP on a SSD. If you are ponying up the cash for a SSD but Win7 while you are at it. If you aren't ready to purchase Win7 then you aren't ready for a SSD.
 
Nope you're not getting a copy from me. Why would I send u one?? If u want to buy one pm me and I'll get u some discount. As well as on tech stuff.
 
This is the situation. I built this computer before 7 was released. I knew I didn't want Vista so I bought XP. My son is building a computer and bought 3 SSD's. He had planned to Raid0 two of them. He was advised by Crucial to not do it. So he is giving me the Intel. He is keeping the 2 C300's
 
Craig234 said:
Speaking of new to SSD, anyone want to post a paragraph on how to use TRIM with an Intel 80GB G2 and Win 7 ultimate?
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Craig-

Given the above specs, trim is already on. Assuming you did a full install onto your SSD, and not an image.

If it will make you feel better, open up a command prompt as administrator and paste in the following command:

fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

If the result is '0' TRIM is enabled.

Enjoy your SSD...I just installed the same drive last week 🙂
 
blackangst1 said:
If it will make you feel better, open up a command prompt as administrator and paste in the following command:

fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

If the result is '0' TRIM is enabled.
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Are you sure about the result? I tried it on my computer (my new SSD will be here tomorrow 😀) and it returned 0.
 
HendrixFan said:
Talking about piracy on these forums is frowned upon.
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I thought he meant "if you want to buy me one as a gift". Heck, windows 7 explicitly has a "free trial" mode. you can install it without a key to get a 30 day free trial. Then either uninstall or buy it and just enter your serial key to continue using it.

XP is REALLY long in the tooth now, it has no built in gigEthernet drivers so its a pain to install, it has no DX10+ support, it doesn't TRIM, it doesn't correctly align partitions for SSDs OR the newest spindle drives (all 64MB cache WD drives, and later this year all new models from other companies) http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3691
It doesn't support USB3 and the list just goes on and on and on... the os is from 2002 for crying out loud. 8 years is a loooooong time to stick with an OS. And unlike vista, win7 was optimized for speed and beats windows XP and vista in speed tests across the board (xbit lab did a comparison... ~40 tests... XP won one test, win7 won every single other test). Although XP does take up a lot less HDD space to install, its not that much and the lack of performance is a pain (especially on multi core systems).
 
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