SSD installation?

[Alexey2912]

Your picture does not reveal what is on D--maybe nothing?

What was your intent by having D on the SSD? What did you hope to accomplish?

You can easily do away with D and give that space to C, but we need to understand your motivations. Maybe you had a good reason for D, although I can't imagine what it would be if all data is on the 320 GB external.

What's on D?

You could get rid of System Reserved, but at this point there's no real point to doing that. As previously explained, the best time to avoid System Reserved is before you install Windows.

No intent, the pc tech who came to service the lap installed and created it.

There is none data, apps on D, it's empty.

At this stage as posted earlier can I merge C and D, will I gain some benefits and hopefully no disk errors after merging?

Does any windows service needs tweaking for SSD?

How do I check for Trim?

Thanks.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Your picture does not reveal what is on D--maybe nothing?

What was your intent by having D on the SSD? What did you hope to accomplish?

You can easily do away with D and give that space to C, but we need to understand your motivations. Maybe you had a good reason for D, although I can't imagine what it would be if all data is on the 320 GB external.

What's on D?

You could get rid of System Reserved, but at this point there's no real point to doing that. As previously explained, the best time to avoid System Reserved is before you install Windows.

No intent, the pc tech who came to service the lap installed and created it.

There is none data, apps on D, it's empty.

At this stage as posted earlier can I merge C and D, will I gain some benefits and hopefully no disk errors after merging?

Does any windows service needs tweaking for SSD?

How do I check for Trim?

Thanks.

TRIM Support for SSD - Check and Enable or Disable

how to check trim tutorial above.

Leave Windows services alone.

Confirm defragmentation is turned off for the SSD.

Confirm alignment is OK.

If nothing is on D, you can delete it in Windows Disk Management. After that deletion, you can then extend C to take up the rest of the drive. This is NOT a merge. Delete D, then extend C.

 

[Alexey2912]

Hi,
Yea Net frame work 4.5.2.. seems to be Important
I have 1 program that needs this weird type of frame work "CorelDraw x6" mostly for it's internet content of which I don't even use but a lot of programs are using .net to deliver internet content.

A couple of the Optional you show might take care of the yellow flag you were referring to
But out of the Optional updates I would load these in green,
View attachment 359142

Of course Skype and Silverlight is completely up to you,
Don't bother Hiding Silverlight it just shows back up so hiding it really accomplishes nothing
The only company/ s that uses Silverlight is M$ for it's help videos and I believe Netflix to stream content.

Skype is self explanatory you either use it or not of which I don't so I don't load anything Skype related personally.

I thought this was a good example of how to install without the 100mb system reserved partition during install,
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/369563-ssd-installation-3.html#post3063972

Yea I agree the D partition doesn't make much sense to me either I do limit space on C but I leave the remainder as Unallocated so I can increase C if necessary later.
View attachment 359144

Thanks again installed the 4 optional updates that you marked, O2 Micro was the Base Device, so now no more see the usb icon.

 

[Alexey2912]

Your picture does not reveal what is on D--maybe nothing?

What was your intent by having D on the SSD? What did you hope to accomplish?

You can easily do away with D and give that space to C, but we need to understand your motivations. Maybe you had a good reason for D, although I can't imagine what it would be if all data is on the 320 GB external.

What's on D?

You could get rid of System Reserved, but at this point there's no real point to doing that. As previously explained, the best time to avoid System Reserved is before you install Windows.

No intent, the pc tech who came to service the lap installed and created it.

There is none data, apps on D, it's empty.

At this stage as posted earlier can I merge C and D, will I gain some benefits and hopefully no disk errors after merging?

Does any windows service needs tweaking for SSD?

How do I check for Trim?

Thanks.

TRIM Support for SSD - Check and Enable or Disable

how to check trim tutorial above.

Leave Windows services alone.

Confirm defragmentation is turned off for the SSD.

Confirm alignment is OK.

If nothing is on D, you can delete it in Windows Disk Management. After that deletion, you can then extend C to take up the rest of the drive. This is NOT a merge. Delete D, then extend C.

Shall check for trim.

Defrag is turned off.

How do I confirm alignment?

After deleting D, is it simple to extend C and should CHDSK be run later?

Thanks.

 

[Alexey2912]

Is this fine for Trim?


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\XPS>fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
DisableDeleteNotify = 0

C:\Users\XPS>

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Re alignment: did you read post 43?

Yes, it's simple to extend C.

No, I wouldn't run checkdisk.

I would run an SSD benchmark to confirm my SSD was performing as expected.

It will also confirm alignment as previously mentioned in this thread post 27.

Get the AS SSD benchmark here:

Download AS SSD Benchmark - MajorGeeks

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Is this fine for Trim?


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\XPS>fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
DisableDeleteNotify = 0

C:\Users\XPS>

yes.

 

[Alexey2912]

Is this fine for Trim?


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\XPS>fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
DisableDeleteNotify = 0

C:\Users\XPS>

yes.

Thanks for confirming.

 

[Alexey2912]

Re alignment: did you read post 43?

Yes, it's simple to extend C.

No, I wouldn't run checkdisk.

I would run an SSD benchmark to confirm my SSD was performing as expected.

It will also confirm alignment as previously mentioned in this thread post 27.

Get the AS SSD benchmark here:

Download AS SSD Benchmark - MajorGeeks

I read post 43, and posted the results of diskpart, offset was 1024.

 

[GokAy]

From some of the reading back when I first installed my SSD, I heard the command line might not show whether TRIM is actually performed.

Use Trimcheck to verify TRIM:
Information - https://github.com/CyberShadow/trimcheck
Download - Index of /trimcheck

"Place this program file on the same drive you'd like to test TRIM on, and run it. Administrator privileges and at least 64MB free disk space will be required."

You will have to run the exe twice, second time a couple of minutes after the first time. Been some time since I ran it, should have the instructions built in.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Re alignment: did you read post 43?

Yes, it's simple to extend C.

No, I wouldn't run checkdisk.

I would run an SSD benchmark to confirm my SSD was performing as expected.

It will also confirm alignment as previously mentioned in this thread post 27.

Get the AS SSD benchmark here:

Download AS SSD Benchmark - MajorGeeks

I read post 43, and posted the results of diskpart, offset was 1024.

Then I'm unclear why you ask about alignment in post 64.

 

[Alexey2912]

From some of the reading back when I first installed my SSD, I heard the command line might not show whether TRIM is actually performed.

Use Trimcheck to verify TRIM:
Information - https://github.com/CyberShadow/trimcheck
Download - Index of /trimcheck

"Place this program file on the same drive you'd like to test TRIM on, and run it. Administrator privileges and at least 64MB free disk space will be required."

Thanks for replying.

Which file of these?

Index of /trimcheck

Icon Name Last modified Size Description
[DIR] Parent Directory -
[TXT] about.txt 18-Feb-2013 10:05 234 About this program
[DIR] old/ 16-Aug-2014 23:11 - Obsolete older versions
[ ] trimcheck-0.7.exe 16-Aug-2014 23:08 929K trimcheck v0.7 Windows binary
TrimCheck provides an easy way to test whether TRIM works on your SSD.
This program was written by Vladimir Panteleev.

You can find more information on the program's GitHub project page:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/trimcheck

 

[GokAy]

Trimcheck-0.7.exe is the latest

 

[ignatzatsonic]

From some of the reading back when I first installed my SSD, I heard the command line might not show whether TRIM is actually performed.

Use Trimcheck to verify TRIM:
Information - https://github.com/CyberShadow/trimcheck
Download - Index of /trimcheck

"Place this program file on the same drive you'd like to test TRIM on, and run it. Administrator privileges and at least 64MB free disk space will be required."

Thanks for replying.

Which file of these?

Index of /trimcheck

Icon Name Last modified Size Description
[DIR] Parent Directory -
[TXT] about.txt 18-Feb-2013 10:05 234 About this program
[DIR] old/ 16-Aug-2014 23:11 - Obsolete older versions
[ ] trimcheck-0.7.exe 16-Aug-2014 23:08 929K trimcheck v0.7 Windows binary
TrimCheck provides an easy way to test whether TRIM works on your SSD.
This program was written by Vladimir Panteleev.

You can find more information on the program's GitHub project page:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/trimcheck

trimcheck-0.7.exe

 

[Alexey2912]

Trimcheck-0.7.exe is the latest

Thanks for confirming.

 

[ThrashZone]

Did you split up the ssd into 2 partitions ? (not including the SR partition) Why ?

Could you please post a shot of Disk Management ?

Reason for split was that I hardly use 35 GB for W7 and all apps, does it make a difference in performance, can they be merged?

Here is a screen shot of Disk management.

Thanks.

Hi,
I can't tell from your disk management image how much space is free out of the C drives almost 70gb,
Ideally you would see as I have is a little more than 50% listed as free,
Then just leave the rest as unallocated for now,
Cheers.

 

[Alexey2912]

From some of the reading back when I first installed my SSD, I heard the command line might not show whether TRIM is actually performed.

Use Trimcheck to verify TRIM:
Information - https://github.com/CyberShadow/trimcheck
Download - Index of /trimcheck

"Place this program file on the same drive you'd like to test TRIM on, and run it. Administrator privileges and at least 64MB free disk space will be required."

You will have to run the exe twice, second time a couple of minutes after the first time. Been some time since I ran it, should have the instructions built in.

Cant copy the cmd results.

Here is the attached file.

Care to have an expert look.

Thanks,

Ops wont get attached?

 

[Alexey2912]

Did you split up the ssd into 2 partitions ? (not including the SR partition) Why ?

Could you please post a shot of Disk Management ?

Reason for split was that I hardly use 35 GB for W7 and all apps, does it make a difference in performance, can they be merged?

Here is a screen shot of Disk management.

Thanks.

Hi,
I can't tell from your disk management image how much space is free out of the C drives almost 70gb,
Ideally you would see as I have is a little more than 50% listed as free,
Then just leave the rest as unallocated for now,
Cheers.

Hello again,

Of the 70 GB of C, 21.1 GB is been used.

What should be done?

Thanks.

 

[Alexey2912]

Re alignment: did you read post 43?

Yes, it's simple to extend C.

No, I wouldn't run checkdisk.

I would run an SSD benchmark to confirm my SSD was performing as expected.

It will also confirm alignment as previously mentioned in this thread post 27.

Get the AS SSD benchmark here:

Download AS SSD Benchmark - MajorGeeks

I read post 43, and posted the results of diskpart, offset was 1024.

Then I'm unclear why you ask about alignment in post 64.

I had no idea that was linked to alignment.

 

[Alexey2912]

TRIM check v0.7 - Written by Vladimir Panteleev
https://github.com/CyberShadow/trimcheck

USAGE: Place this program file on the same drive
you'd like to test TRIM on, and run it.

Press Enter to test drive C:...

Querying C:\ disk space and sector size information...
C:\ has 512 bytes per sector, and 8 sectors per cluster.
12751948 out of 18324479 clusters are free.
Generating random target data block (16384 bytes)...
First 16 bytes: 74 7E 98 FF 23 20 63 F9 8B 80 E6 F3 24 36 CB DE...
Creating C:\Users\XPS\Downloads\trimcheck.bin...
Querying file final paths...
DOS : \\?\C:\Users\XPS\Downloads\trimcheck.bin
GUID : \\?\Volume{916f8f4f-f890-11e4-8f13-806e6f6e6963}\Users\XPS\Downloads\tr
imcheck.bin
NT : \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Users\XPS\Downloads\trimcheck.bin
NONE : \Users\XPS\Downloads\trimcheck.bin
Writing padding (33554432 bytes)...
Writing data (16384 bytes)...
Writing padding (33554432 bytes)...
Flushing file...
Checking file size...
Data is located at Virtual Cluster Numbers 8192-8195 within file.
Querying file physical location...
trimcheck.bin has 8 extents:
Extent 0: Virtual clusters 0-255 are located at LCN 1406049
Extent 1: Virtual clusters 256-802 are located at LCN 3897755
Extent 2: Virtual clusters 803-1796 are located at LCN 4108467
Extent 3: Virtual clusters 1797-3945 are located at LCN 10357836
Extent 4: Virtual clusters 3946-8368 are located at LCN 4795588
(this is the extent containing our data)
Extent 5: Virtual clusters 8369-12147 are located at LCN 6157847
Extent 6: Virtual clusters 12148-15290 are located at LCN 4161197
Extent 7: Virtual clusters 15291-17343 are located at LCN 9312781
Closing file.
Saving continuation data to C:\Users\XPS\Downloads\trimcheck-cont.json...
Flushing buffers on \\.\C:...
Opening \\.\C:...
Flushing buffers...
Deleting file...
Flushing buffers on \\.\C:...
Opening \\.\C:...
Flushing buffers...

Test file created and deleted, and continuation data saved.
Do what needs to be done to activate the SSD's TRIM functionality,
and run this program again.
Usually, you just need to wait a bit (around 20 seconds).
Sometimes, a reboot is necessary.

Press Enter to exit...


Got it, 1st time run.