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    Reset my Crucial M4 to Factory Settings?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by CC268, Jan 8, 2012.

  1. CC268

    CC268 Notebook Evangelist

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    I am going to be doing a clean install of Windows 7 on my laptop soon and wanted to freshen up my SSD as well, I will make a backup of my SSD so I want to just reset it before I made all the optimizations and I don't mind deleting all the data on it either...how do I do this?
     
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  2. metril

    metril Notebook Deity

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    You need to use HDparm. There are a lot of guides out there to using HDparm to give the trim command. Also, you really don't have to do this. Windows 7 supports trim and will trim the driver when idle. Just leave the computer turned on for 1 night and it should be good as new.
     
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    jclausius Notebook Virtuoso

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    You'll want to look at something called "secure erase" (SE). There are many tools out there, and as metril stated, hdparm is one of them.

    Some related posts -

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...de-crucial-c300-crucial-m4-3.html#post8025555 (ignore title of thread and just read related post)

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...1243-erase-wipe-ssd-before-re-installing.html

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol.../579973-using-ssds-without-clean-install.html

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...e/576496-help-secure-erase-intel-320-ssd.html
     
    jclausius, Jan 9, 2012
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