Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M160G2R5 160Gb ?

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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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Did you get a full version (retail) of Windows 7 or are you doing an upgrade thing?

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Full version. Home premium from newegg. If I boot to Hatachi in the AHCI mode the raid array is available, the ssd is available. The Hatachi uses the Intel Sata controller with the raid driver. Since I have 2 Standard controllers I'm thinking I could use 1 with the msahci.sys and one with iaStor.sys. It's to bad you can't drag and drop the drives to the right controller. There is also raid controller cards, what's your thoughts?

Carl2

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My thoughts? Well, I don't fully understand what you are doing. Why would you need to delete a partition when installing a full version of Windows on the SSD?

You should install Windows 7 and use default AHCI driver and you won't have any problem with TRIM or multiple AHCI Controllers.

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When the SSD arrived it came with cloning software. I used the cloning software to place an image of the original HD to the SSD. The software at the same time made a copy of the MBR partition on the original HD and copied it on to the SSD. This placed a 10.5 Gb partition on the SSD with information about the Hatachi drive. It seemed to me when windows installs it looks at the disk, it shows the 2 partitions, the MBR partition and the OS partition. It will format the OS partition but will not do anything on the MBR because the disk needs the information. Possibly during the installation process it realizes the disk is ssd and the MBR is useless info.

Carl

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I believe the problem is you cloned your Windows 7 from a system that had the Intel AHCI controller and there is the problem. I believe you should uninstall that Intel AHCI controller.