WinXP and SSD

[Mars999]

I have 3 Plextor M3 SSD drives that are formated under Win7, and I am going to be putting these drives into WinXP and need to know, when WinXP accesses these SSD's and writes to them, will it cause issues? Will it mess with the alignment that was set by Win7? How about drive life?

Thanks.

 

[postmortemIA]

it will be ok, NTFS is backwards compatible, so XP will read Win 7 partitions just fine. If plextor has software that does TRIM under Win XP, you can install that to optimize the drive.

 

[Gfxmaniac]

When installing XP just do quick format partiton that have been created under Win7.

 

[MicahC]

As long as you use one of the major formatting, XP will support it (I don't see why you would want anything else)

 

[Mars999]

Ok sound good, what about if I am just going to take my Steam account filled SSD and just drop that into my WinXP desktop... I don't think I need to format it for WinXP, but just hook it up and the file system should be ok correct for WinXP... Don't want to reinstall all the games.....

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Just watch out that your partition is aligned to 1MB if you will be reformatting it under WinXP. Otherwise, you'll get insane write amplification issues.

 

[Mars999]

Just watch out that your partition is aligned to 1MB if you will be reformatting it under WinXP. Otherwise, you'll get insane write amplification issues.

How do I check for that?

Thanks!

 

[taltamir]

when WinXP accesses these SSD's and writes to them, will it cause issues?

No

Will it mess with the alignment that was set by Win7?

No

How about drive life?

Will be reduced due to lack of TRIM.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

How do I check for that?

Fire up a command prompt, run diskpart.
At the diskpart prompt, do a list disk, select disk X, list partition.
You'll see the offset in one of the columns.

 

[Denithor]

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