Recovery disc or Windows 7 disc?

My new laptop is arriving next Monday, it comes with a pre-installed win7 oem and the disc and office 2010 starter.
I just ordered a samsung 830 120gb SSD and plan to use it as the primary drive. Should I make recovery disc from the laptop and use that to install win7 on ssd or use the original disc to install?
Can I keep the office starter by using the recovery disc?

 

Either one will work - your recovery disk will reformat and install all the out-of-the-box items that came on the laptop. (so yes office starter will be there). So you'll likely be deleting a few apps/programs etc. Whereas the WIN7 install would be a clean slate/start.

 

i like clean install though...

then i'll install whatever programs / drivers, i thought as needed.. no need to install all that bloatwares

 

so if you use the recovery discs(made from the hdd) to install windows and other pre install programs on the ssd, that won't cause any miss alignment and would practically be as good as a fresh install(factory install)?

 

Factory install yes, clean install no.
Your new notebook should also have a recovery partition.

 

Factory install = garbage.

Clean install always recommended.

To give you an example; an HP with only the default factory install idles with ~109 processes and feels like a machine from late 2009/early 2010 (and that is with an i7 2630QM and 8GB RAM, btw).

With a clean install (39 processes running with drivers only) and 5 full productivity suites installed plus some additional utilities on the same machine, it idles with ~99 processes and feels like it is ready to take on 2012 and beyond. (An SSD upgrade doesn't hurt either. ).


While a clean install on a blank/unformatted HDD/SSD will ensure proper alignment 100% each time, depending on the actual restore process used to do the same thing, it is much more of a gamble, imo, and one I would NOT bet on the manufacturer getting it right.

Even with all the 'garbage' loaded on a clean install of Win7 (only difference is that only the newest/latest drivers/software were installed - not what was shipped with the system) a computer will still be noticeably faster and stable for much longer - even if the processes are identical in number to the factory image.

As long as you have access to all the latest/current/stable drivers for the O/S you want to install - a clean install is the only option for long term performance, stability/reliablity and longetivity (of the install).

Barring any hardware issues and any user/software issues, a Win7x64u install is usually a one time thing for most of the systems I've installed from 2009 - you may as well do it right, since you're probably going to only do it once.

Good luck.