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Thanks, I will peruse that. :)
The Acronis thing you are talking about is "windows integration" isn't it? I should un-tick all three it seems to me.
Acronis True Image Home 2011: Windows Integration | Knowledge Base
Yes, I'm pretty sure that is it. It's been a long time so I don't recall many of the details, but that looks like it. And about the link. With an SSD I don't use the 'clean all' command. I either do a 'clean' command or a secure erase. either one will work. The rest of the tutorial works perfect. It is a great tutorial to give a good install.
I use Parted Magic. It has HDerase included with about a dozen other Linux utilities. That, Partition Wizzard and hiram's Boot utility and you can do anything to a computer. I have those and an Windows 7 all version Installation DVD on a 16GB USB drive.
Parted Magic is on my UBCD 5, I will check it out. I recently got Partition Wizard 5 too, someone here suggested it, I like it because it has a nice GUI and is user friendly.
Yes, and it will do a lot of things disk management can't do. I'm not sure, but UBCD and Hirams may be similar, but Hirams has just about everything imaginable on it. On boot, just load the mini XP and it has all the utilities you could want. Parted magic's HDErase has a very good tutorial on the OCZ forum, but you have to hot plug the SSD to unfreeze it. It takes about 10 seconds.