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    Installing windows 7 on SSd issue

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by SpecialEffect, Mar 1, 2011.

  1. SpecialEffect

    SpecialEffect Notebook Guru

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    I'm installing windows 7 home premium onto my SSD and holy crap it's slow... It's doing the expanding window files and it's about 1% every 30 seconds... Also I'm using the disk that came with the alienware... Coul the disk be the issue?
     
    SpecialEffect, Mar 1, 2011
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    FrozenWaltDisney Notebook Consultant

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    Wait till expanding is done. I believe (correct me if I am wrong) expanding is unpacking the files to install, and is probably residing partially in your memory.

    When it says its installing, then it should be going on there.

    Also most SSDs write slower then read... so the real difference is seek times and load speeds, but not write.
     
    FrozenWaltDisney, Mar 1, 2011
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    TurbodTalon Notebook Virtuoso

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    That's the slowest part, and I have an extremely fast SSD. It does the same for me. You'd have to blame the read speed of the optical disk/drive. There's nothing else it could be.
     
    TurbodTalon, Mar 1, 2011
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    Torai Notebook Evangelist

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    I think it may be slower at the beginning than at the end of the process. In other words, it would take different amount of time for the same percentage at different point of progress. The whole installation would be 15-20 mins ( I just installed clean windows yesterday but didnt remember exactly)
    There's nothing you should worry about. :)
     
    Torai, Mar 1, 2011
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    This is absolutely true, and I can't believe i didn't think of it. When installing from a server image its much much faster
     
    FrozenWaltDisney, Mar 1, 2011
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    SpecialEffect, are you sure you have set your SSD in AHCI mode?, anyway with optical disk i experienced something alike, turned out to be a thing of the optical drive combined with an SSD. i am not really sure what it is but an installtion on a standard HDD does not take that long :(
     
    negyuh, Mar 2, 2011
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