[Question] Reinstalling OS on SSD.

MickeyD1234 do i need to install all the drivers from dell? What i mean is there are two drivers for audio. Do i need to install both? And the same thing with others... There are two drivers too in some categories.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

The only driver i cant found... The driver from dell keeps failing.

 

For many dell drivers I see this happening - you get to the driver and there are two downloads with a poor description as to the difference. I can usually figure out which one I want but I've been doing this stuff for a lot of years - I would not expect an average user to understand the differences. You may also see drivers for different hardware dell used in your model. On the plus side, if you chose a wrong one it will not install so you go for the other one

Try deleting the device. It will then show as an unknown device. Install the dell driver and see what happens. It only applies to the HDD and parks the heads if it detects the machine has been dropped. Might be messed up by caching? If it still will not start then just disable the device and ignore

 

Didnt work...
Oh well might as well leave it alone


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Yeah nothing to be worried about. There might be some useful information when you open it but probably just 'driver failed to load'. Right click it and 'disable' so it's not going to even try to use it .

All still going fine?

 

Thanks.
Yes everything is great right now. I hope it stays that way
Still in the process of installing my stuff. Switching platform is a lot of work


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Great. It is a drag getting everything the way you want it - I really need to wipe mine down and start fresh but I've left it so long (and it still games just fine) I don't need all that stress and work right now .

If you install AlienRespawn you can create a snapshot emergency backup on a USB drive. On mine it detected that I had no factory restore partition and went ahead and created one (after I OK'd it)

http://alwdownload.alienrespawn.com/alwdownload-en.html

 

Thanks ill look into that

Oh and i just installed samsung magician software and says there that ahci mode is required for the best ssd performance. And also sata interface is not detected. Is that because of the raid and msata acceleration?



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Get rid of that stuff! It's what started you down the path to disaster IMO.

The best performance statement is spurious (lies) because the speed difference is not noticeable in real world use - it's a tiny overhead as most of it (RAID) is in hardware. They just want you to get better benchmark numbers.

 

LOL
Yeah i think thats what made my installation a disaster. Uninstalling now

 

Another nice option you get is that if at a later date you get a large SSD you can configure all the SSD to be a single large drive - very convenient

MSATA is still a SATA interface but with smaller space and cooling requirements (specific for SSD's) so any disk installed there can be used as normal as well as a cache.