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    Clean Windows Install on SSD or just moving OS from HDD?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by James D, Sep 21, 2011.

  1. James D

    James D Notebook Prophet

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    You see my question.
    Anybody knows what Windows really does when being installed on SSD?
     
    James D, Sep 21, 2011
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  2. J.P.@XoticPC

    J.P.@XoticPC Company Representative

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    You can do either. Doing a clean install will of course install Windows from scratch, and you'll need to install all your drivers again, etc.

    Or you can use a program that copies the contents of one hard drive to another. I personally use this guy: Miray Software - HDClone - Hard disk copy, hard disk backup, hard disk rescue!

    The free version is slow, but it works well.

    Does that help?
     
    J.P.@XoticPC, Sep 21, 2011
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  3. J&SinKTO

    J&SinKTO Notebook Deity

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    To Windows the SSD is simply a hard drive (altho a lot faster than a spinner). Most will recommend a clean install just to start right and get the alignment correct. Much more detail available in the SSD sub forum under hardware.
     
    J&SinKTO, Sep 21, 2011
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    Just save the important files and do a clean install.
     
    BlazeGaj, Sep 22, 2011
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  5. anseio

    anseio All ways are my ways.

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    @James D - you're getting excited, aren't you? Getting it all planned out. :D I hope the package doesn't take too long to arrive from where I am.
     
    anseio, Sep 22, 2011
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    I did a clean install when I received my SSD, I prefer do a format anyway once a year to make my OS faster, and fix small issues as well.

    I also read that is better to proceed with a clean install to align windows 7 for the SSD performance, don't know if its true to be honest, but it was mentioned in many guides for SSD tweaking.
     
    ExMM, Sep 22, 2011
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  7. James D

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    Hmmm. Interesting and that is good to know. + rep.

    Yeah Anseio, I am already planning what to do when it arrives.

    I will do clean install. I decided it because I have installed RamDisk and eBoostr which are hard software (RAMDisk) because it makes big changes to a system. So even if I uninstall all software I installed for getting bigger performance of my HDD I still believe that I will have not very optimized system.
     
    James D, Sep 22, 2011
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