Update from Intel's NAND Solutions Group - Toolbox issue

[Alan_F_Intel]

To 34nm (G2) Intel® X25-M Solid-State Drive consumers,

• Microsoft* alerted Intel to an issue with the Intel® SSD Optimizer tool and Intel is working on a fix to the issue. After the SSD Optimizer is run, the SSD Optimizer renders all previously set Windows* system restore points unusable. However, user data is not affected . The SSD Optimizer tool is part of the Intel® SSD Toolbox (ver 1.1).

• This applies only to users who meet all four criteria below:

• Use Windows*7 or Vista and

• Use the System Protection feature which sets system restore points (enabled by default in Windows*7 and Vista*) and

• Have installed 02HA firmware and

• Have used Intel SSD Optimizer (which was available from intel.com from 10/26 to 11/4).

• A workaround for this issue and additional details are available http://support.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/CS-031073.htm here . Intel will give regular updates on this issue. Please note this issue is not related to the Intel SSD firmware update process covered in a separate announcement (Intel® Solid-State Drive Firmware Update).

*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

Alan

NAND Solutions Group

Intel Corporation

[idata]

Hey, I have said that many times including in this thread and you never said I was correct!

[DZand]

@ ambizytl:

Don has answered your question very clearly. You don't need to run the SSD optimizer, if you are running Win7 (32bit or 64bit) in AHCI Mode and using the Win7 in-box MS AHCI driver.

How often shall he or anyone else from Intel repeat it?

[idata]

Are you kidding?! I did not ask a question about the firmware--I have posted many times you do not need to run the optimizer if using Windows 7 with Microsoft AHCI driver and BIOS set to AHCI. I also posted many times from Intel's white paper:

When using the latest Microsoft Windows* 7 operating system with Microsoft AHCI storage drivers the OS will contain native support to execute the Intel® SSD Optimizer on an Intel SSD without requiring any user interaction.

Microsoft Windows* 7 

Microsoft* AHCINative OS support (Intel® SSD Toolbox not required)

[idata]

ambizytl:

He missunderstood your post

It's great we have clarification from intel.

It's clear we dont need to run it in win7/MS AHCI, but I still have the question:

If we already had win7 installed, TRIM will only start working after the FW upgrade.

What about the files that were already deleted, before the TRIM update?

Should we run the optimizer once?

[MJohn29]

Thanks everyone for the help!

So I avoided installing the Intel MSM, but I did install the Chipset Installation Utility because I thought that was okay. In the process this obviously installed Intel's own storage driver (which IMSM must include as well) and over wrote the Microsoft storage driver.

My question now is ....is it safe to install the Microsoft storage driver and over write the Intel storage driver? How would I go about doing this?

Thanks again!