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Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M160G2R5 160Gb ?
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02-22-2010 04:45 PM
I have just put the SSD in the computer a Gateway FX6801, formatted the drive, and with the cloning software supplied with the SSD I transfered the Win7 installation from the original Hatachi hard drive to the SSD. The bios is set to AHIC, the computer boots from the SSD and everything works fine. The load time hasn't improved, 1 min 20 sec which I feel is long and the main reason I changed to SSD. The Win 7 performance for the drive is 5.9 which is the same as the original Hatachi drive. I'd posted this at another forum I am a member of and two replies I recieved were I should Install Win 7 rather than clone. The recovery software for the computer will only install on the original hard drive so I'd have to buy Win 7 and then try to install the drivers that want to install on the Hatachi drive. Also I am not sure what firmware the disk has, pretty sure I saw it some where in the computer but I can't find it again.
Carl2
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03-03-2010 02:17 PM
Well the MS win 7 and cable just came in the mail. Should be able to get to this this evening and tomorrow morning.
Carl
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03-04-2010 07:49 AM
I installed the SSD in the correct bay using the cable that came in, changed the port settings on the motherboard so the SSD is port 0, Hatachi is port 1, and the DVD is port 3, everything works ok. This morning I installed Win 7 from the disk that came in, frist I deleted the partition that was cloned to the disk, then installed. I have the Standard AHCI1.0 controllers listed twice, with the four drivers including msahci.sys twice. Ran the wie got a disk performance of 5.9, just ran again and got the 7.8. Looks good so far.
Carl2
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03-04-2010 11:19 AM
message revised and re-posted.
Message was edited by: ambizytl
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03-04-2010 11:23 AM
If you did a fresh install of Windows 7 on a "clean" SSD, not deleting a partition, you shouldn't get duplicate Standard AHCI 1.0 controllers. Why didn't you format the SSD and install Windows 7, instead of deleting a partition?
Why don't you use AS SSD benchmark tool to test and post the screenshot here?
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03-04-2010 01:01 PM
When I did a fresh install of win 7 with the gateway disk it would not remove the cloned version of the MBR from the Hatachi drive. I installed it and it ran. It deleated the MBR so I have about 11 GB lost. With the win 7 I recieved I removed the partition before the install recovering most of this. Looking at Computer management it has a partition- System Reserved, 100MB. Right now I am on a different computer, I'll try to get a screenshot.
Carl2
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