https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/two-questions-before-i-ghost-my-new-ssd/m-p/5300#M5162 <P>The SSD is not preformatted or partitioned.</P><P></P><P>My advise is do not ghost your drive onto the SSD. I have assisted far to many who have done this and, for some reason, something has not gone right resulting in sub-par performance. In the end, they all ended up completing a fresh install. <A href="http://www.myw7blog.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.myw7blog.blogspot.com</A> My Computer and Win7 Optimization Guide will assist with this while <A href="http://www.thessdreview.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.thessdreview.blogspot.com</A> The SSD Review will help with any number of other questions.</P><P></P><P>Good Luck</P><P></P><P>Les</P> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:11:16 GMT idata 2010-04-27T23:11:16Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/two-questions-before-i-ghost-my-new-ssd/m-p/5299#M5161 <P>Does SSD come preformated?</P><P></P><P>I want to ghost my windows 7 Ultimate and all programs and files. Has anybody had success with that?</P> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:52:40 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/two-questions-before-i-ghost-my-new-ssd/m-p/5299#M5161 idata 2010-04-27T22:52:40Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/two-questions-before-i-ghost-my-new-ssd/m-p/5300#M5162 <P>The SSD is not preformatted or partitioned.</P><P></P><P>My advise is do not ghost your drive onto the SSD. I have assisted far to many who have done this and, for some reason, something has not gone right resulting in sub-par performance. In the end, they all ended up completing a fresh install. <A href="http://www.myw7blog.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.myw7blog.blogspot.com</A> My Computer and Win7 Optimization Guide will assist with this while <A href="http://www.thessdreview.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.thessdreview.blogspot.com</A> The SSD Review will help with any number of other questions.</P><P></P><P>Good Luck</P><P></P><P>Les</P> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:11:16 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/two-questions-before-i-ghost-my-new-ssd/m-p/5300#M5162 idata 2010-04-27T23:11:16Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/two-questions-before-i-ghost-my-new-ssd/m-p/5301#M5163 <P>Surely there has been some out there that have had success?</P> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:02:21 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/two-questions-before-i-ghost-my-new-ssd/m-p/5301#M5163 idata 2010-04-28T13:02:21Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/two-questions-before-i-ghost-my-new-ssd/m-p/5302#M5164 <P>I have Windows XP and Ghost 2003. I Ghosted my system to my Intel SSD,no problems.</P> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:29:52 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/two-questions-before-i-ghost-my-new-ssd/m-p/5302#M5164 idata 2010-04-28T20:29:52Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/two-questions-before-i-ghost-my-new-ssd/m-p/5303#M5165 <P>I have successfully ghosted to an Intel SSD several times without issue -- both XP and Win 7.</P> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:54:50 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/two-questions-before-i-ghost-my-new-ssd/m-p/5303#M5165 idata 2010-04-29T03:54:50Z