Reinstall Windows 7 on an SSD

[prophet0001]

I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on reinstalling Windows onto an SSD. I have an Intel 520 240 gig drive and am not sure if I need to do something other than just reinstall the OS. Is there anything to be concerned about as it relates to how TRIM works? Will the drive properly handle a Quick format or should I do a Full format of the drive?

Thank you for any advice you can give. I don't entirely understand how TRIM (rather the architecture which requires TRIM) will respond to a simple rewrite of the boot sector and MFT.

Thank you again.

 

[tweakboy]

To install OS, you should disconnect all your drives and only keep the SSD connected so windows installs into it, rather then falling in one of your hard drives.

There is nothing you have to do. Trim simply works, Check with Crystal Disk Info and you will see all your SSD info.

When windows is up and running, do not your readyboost, and disabled superfetch in services. Thats it my friend. Enjoy ,, gl

 

[tweakboy]

TRIM is something that happens in the background you never notice it happening. It makes sure your SSD stays at peek speed to put it bluntly. gl

 

[prophet0001]

Sweet

Thank you very much for your help.

 

[tweakboy]

My pleasure anything else let me know.. BTW

With windows 8 ,,,, there is no more readyboost. but there is superfetch and is recommended to leave it on despite having SSD.

In 7 or vista your going to gain speed by disabling superfetch. Also make sure you DO NOT have a page file. Disable page file if you have 8GB of ram. gl

 

[WilliamM2]

You need to enable AHCI in the bios for trim to work. No need to disable superfetch, pagefile, or any other nonsense.

 

[kleinkinstein]

Here is the optimization how-to.

 

[Anteaus]

You need to enable AHCI in the bios for trim to work. No need to disable superfetch, pagefile, or any other nonsense.

Trim works just fine in IDE mode. The SSD will run faster with AHCI, but it isn't mandatory for trim to work.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2280173&highlight=

 

[MaxICH]

Also make sure you DO NOT have a page file. Disable page file if you have 8GB of ram. gl

Very BAD idea. Regardless of the amount of ram, Windows needs a pagefile in order to work properly.

 

[tweakboy]

You need to enable AHCI in the bios for trim to work. No need to disable superfetch, pagefile, or any other nonsense.

Your wrong. Ask any SSD user with enough RAM.

You disable page file,,,, and disable superfetch,,

but in windows 8 leave superfetch alone and once again no need for a page file, you need to first use 8GB of ram then page file kicks in and it kicks in before that only slowing things down acting as ram. Thank you GB

:whiste:

 

[Elixer]

Very BAD idea. Regardless of the amount of ram, Windows needs a pagefile in order to work properly.

Correct, Windows does need a pagefile for some things to work correctly, don't disable it, even if you have 1TB of RAM.
You can limit it to 1GB or so, and you will be fine.

 

[WilliamM2]

Your wrong. Ask any SSD user with enough RAM.

I've had SSD's and enough RAM for years now. There is no reason to disable the page file.

 

[Mfusick]

There's nothing special you need to do

 

[jihe]

Also make sure you DO NOT have a page file. Disable page file if you have 8GB of ram. gl

Do NOT disable your page file. A very bad idea in general, you may just have random problems with windows. Windows now managers your memory well anyway, no need to fiddle around with it.

 

[Charlie98]

Here is the optimization how-to.

:thumbsup: X 10000

 

[wpcoe]

Correct, Windows does need a pagefile for some things to work correctly, don't disable it, even if you have 1TB of RAM.
You can limit it to 1GB or so, and you will be fine.

With Win7 I found by experimentation that I could set the pagefile of 128MB on my boot drive. I set a second pagefile on a HDD for minimum size 128MB, maximum size 4GB, and with 8GB RAM and the second page file never grew beyond 128MB.

Win8 complained about a 128MB pagefile on the system drive and recommended a minimum of 400MB -- something about it needed 400MB for potential crash reports?

 

[beginner99]

IMHO the best approach is to set pagefile size very low for crappy applications that 100% require it. Win 7 alone is perfectly fine without one. Per default pagefile is very big I think same as amount of RAM and if you have 16 GB of RAM that will use up a lot of expensive SSD space for basically no reason.

 

[Mfusick]

Just plug it in and use it. Almost a the proposes tweaks are smoke and mirrors and cause more harm than good.

 

[kbp]

Just get the latest Intel toolbox and it will optimize everything it need to for any Intel SSD.