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I have the 'newest' Intel X25-M Intel 80GB Gen 2 SSD. I updated to the latest Intel SSD firmware and running the drive in AHCI mode. I did NOT install the Intel chipset drivers for my mobo and using the default Win 7 storage drivers. I installed Windows 7 64-Bit yesterday, and I don't have that warm fuzzy feeling about it. I'm not 100% sure the drive is being picked up because:
-Win 7 install time took longer than others I've heard (but maybe I'm just being impatient on this.) It took about 8 minutes once you exclude BIOS boot screens, etc.
-Windows Defragmenter can be run on the drive as it let me start the process for the C drive. I thought this was disabled by default (I don't see it in Task scheduler though) and I would not even be able to manually run this?
FYI, these are the BIOS settings I have on my Gigabyte -EX58-UD3R:
-SATA RAID/AHCI MODE (set to disabled as I will not be doing any RAID)
-ONBOARD SATA/IDE DEVICE (set to Enabled)
-ONBOARD SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode (set to AHCI)
1. Can you guys think of anything I can/should check? Are there default options in Win 7 that are enable/disable when it detects an SSD as the primary drive?
2. I believe that while checking defrag, it started on the drive (I stopped it before it hit 1%). Will this harm TRIM functionality, or anything else?
Thanks guys!!
-Win 7 install time took longer than others I've heard (but maybe I'm just being impatient on this.) It took about 8 minutes once you exclude BIOS boot screens, etc.
-Windows Defragmenter can be run on the drive as it let me start the process for the C drive. I thought this was disabled by default (I don't see it in Task scheduler though) and I would not even be able to manually run this?
FYI, these are the BIOS settings I have on my Gigabyte -EX58-UD3R:
-SATA RAID/AHCI MODE (set to disabled as I will not be doing any RAID)
-ONBOARD SATA/IDE DEVICE (set to Enabled)
-ONBOARD SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode (set to AHCI)
1. Can you guys think of anything I can/should check? Are there default options in Win 7 that are enable/disable when it detects an SSD as the primary drive?
2. I believe that while checking defrag, it started on the drive (I stopped it before it hit 1%). Will this harm TRIM functionality, or anything else?
Thanks guys!!