https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/new-to-ssd-s/m-p/4718#M4580 <P>Hi William,</P><P></P><P>For an Intel SSD, you shouldn't have to do anything to make it work. You can connect to your system and set it up just like a new hard drive. Or you may image your appropriately sized HD to an SSD just like it were a HD, using a variety of tools including Ghost.</P><P></P><P>Does that help?</P> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:32:49 GMT idata 2010-03-15T18:32:49Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/new-to-ssd-s/m-p/4717#M4579 <P>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 <A href="http://drive.to" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">drive.to</A> 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?</P> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:48:18 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/new-to-ssd-s/m-p/4717#M4579 idata 2010-03-14T19:48:18Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/new-to-ssd-s/m-p/4718#M4580 <P>Hi William,</P><P></P><P>For an Intel SSD, you shouldn't have to do anything to make it work. You can connect to your system and set it up just like a new hard drive. Or you may image your appropriately sized HD to an SSD just like it were a HD, using a variety of tools including Ghost.</P><P></P><P>Does that help?</P> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:32:49 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/new-to-ssd-s/m-p/4718#M4580 idata 2010-03-15T18:32:49Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/new-to-ssd-s/m-p/4719#M4581 <P>I have read that you have to align the partition on the SSD because XP doesn't set the alignment correctly/.</P> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:12:34 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/new-to-ssd-s/m-p/4719#M4581 idata 2010-03-15T19:12:34Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/new-to-ssd-s/m-p/4720#M4582 <P>Your aligment concerns are apporpriate for non-Intel SSDs. But the X-25M and the X25M G2 do not require a correct alignment. The performance differences between "aligned" and "unaligned" will be negligible.</P> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:03:50 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/new-to-ssd-s/m-p/4720#M4582 idata 2010-03-16T02:03:50Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/new-to-ssd-s/m-p/4721#M4583 <P>Thank you for the information.</P> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:52:17 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/new-to-ssd-s/m-p/4721#M4583 idata 2010-03-16T17:52:17Z