Installing windows from scratch to a new SSD

I've just bought a new SSD for my Lenovo x220 and I'm wondering if installing from scratch windows 7 or windows 8, with an original copy of Microsoft.

Which is the correct procedure do do this without problems ?

I don't need to do any backup of my system (Windows 7).

thks

 

Here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/len...uide-clean-installing-windows-7-thinkpad.html

 

Thanks for the link.

However my situation seems to be less problematic.

I don't need to backup the current system.
I need only to do a fresh install (Windows 7 or 8 64 bit) on the new new ssd.

A further queation:
do You think that 120 gb could be not sufficient for a minimal dual boot system (win 7/8 + crunchlinux) ?

 

Windows 7 will take about 20-30gigs to install when I did W7x64 Ult sp1 install. So let say 30 gigs for each windows that leaves you 60 gigs for Linux dual boot that could take at least 3-15 gigs that will leave you know 45 gigs left not a whole lot of rooms should you start saving stuff to the drive. I think you will be better off getting at least 240 or close to 300 gig SSD if you going to dual boot so you get more capacity if you need it. The Linux install is my best guess since using Unbuntu in the past.

 

All I did was boot from the DVD windows install disk and on the format choose custom and deleted all partitions to remove any traces of previous install or partition formats. And then continue from there to make a new clean install of Windows.

 

Consider that... I don't need stuff on this ssd.

I have in mind to have a dual boot with some development application (netbeans, visual studio), editors and compilators other than jvm.
No more. No video, no games, no music.

All these potential stuff will be put on external resource.

 

Windows 7 Direct Download Links
Scroll down for the required version (U media refresh version only if available). You need the ISO version and you can use this tool to put it on a USB drive.
Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool

Do the rest of the things like you would do on a normal hard drive like partitioning and dual booting. If you have a Windows 8 copy, you could do the same. Use the USB tool and repeat the process. Depending on the software you are going to use in the linux section, keeping it to 20-30GB and leaving the rest to Windows should be good enough. I have seen no issues at all. You could always do a trial run with different partition sizes if you want. The OS installation is quick and you wouldn't feel frustrated.

 

Giving to windows (Maybe windows 8 64 bit) 60 gb and to linux 30 gb, keeping 30 gb of unallocated/free space could be an acceptable solution ?

 

Out of 120GB, you get about ~111Gb to play with. Keep about 80 GB for Windows 8 and the rest for Linux. I haven't seen any significant performance change on my SSD when I have left allocated space independent of the data drives. Just go with allotting all the space. My brother's ThinkPad X230 has two similar partitions and he hasn't complained about performance degradation and neither have I observed any for the past year. You should be good with such a setup.

P.S. Is that 2GB RAM that I see on your X220 in the signature? If so, you should upgrade it to at least 6GB or 8GB if possible with matching dimms.

 

+1 about RAM. It will eat your SSD just using paging file.
And don't forget to disable sleep mode if you don't use it.

 

Currently I've 6 gb of ram.


Could it be enough ?

 

You should be good as you are not running any virtual systems on your PC.

 

To keep the system affordable and "ready" is win7 still better than win8 ?

 

Windows 8 may be still buggy. Windows 8.1 is even worse. Just keep using Windows 7

In fact, I believe that all that feedback about Win8 being snappier than Win7 is a matter of proper settings of GUI. I use the Windows 7 which as already increased responsiveness of notifications different of some sort + disabled some services and other tweaks and I still don't get how faster Win8 can be... considering the fact that my sister uses Win8.

 

Try booting Windows 8 on an atom powered device vs Windows 7, you'll see a difference. Out of the box, Windows 8 is slightly faster, slightly being the key term here (not enough to make a meaningful difference on a decently powerful machine imo).

 

Considering mainly, stability, booting time and space occupance which is Your preference ?

 

Either on anything core 2 duo and up.

 

Just note that 8.1 =/= 8, but even if you get Windows 8, you'll get the update to Windows 8.1 in october.

 

I hate both Intel Atom and Windows 8 So I guess they were made for each other

 

Trying could be not sufficient.

I'm mainly interested into knows which of the two is more affordable on the long period and which one can kept as compact as possibile, even with frequent updates.