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You're most welcome Omazic. :)
Personally (as everyone is painfully aware) I just clone to a second drive in the machine - 128GB M4 to a Seagate 500GB 6Gbs too easy
This and several others have been very educational to me. However I have a situation that some of you have already laughed at, and I have searched and searched and can't find the answer.
I have a 250Gig OCZ SSD Sata 11 with Windows 7 Ultimate on it I also already have a 500 Gig Seagate SSD that I would like to use for storage.
The problem is I read how to use Diskpart and align he SSD for the OS, but I can find nothing on how to use and configure a SSD for storage. The OS SSD was configured as the Primary Drive but how a I to set up the second SSD and configure it for storage? I need some step by step instructions here!
I know I am not posting this where it should be, but perhaps an adminstrator will repost it for me.
Please help!
Lost,
harmie
Harmie,harmie said:
You would basically just treat a SSD the same way you would a HDD, except that you do not defrag a SSD. :)
Since this is a separate physical SSD, it's free space cannot be added to your other SSD. Instead, all you will need to do is to indeed create a new simple volume from the unallocated space on the SSD that will format it and give it a drive letter. The tutorial below can give you more details on how to in Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc).
Afterwards, you will be able to save what you like to the new SSD. While installing some programs, they may give you the option to select where to install them at. If so, you could select the new SSD. The new SSD would be good to keep backups on as well.
Now I understand more than I ever hoped just reading this. I hope the like you provided will tell me what folder and backups I can use it for. One other question is on the Intel Rapid Storage Technology. I was trying to understand the Info it provides, and reading other Seven Forms post, I was under the impression that I could put Apps, the Users, Program folders and ect onto a seperate HHD, and could not understand why I can't do the same on a SSD. I will follow this link and try to learn something. That is the thing about computers. Right when you think you are getting pretty good, everything changes, the OS and the Computers and now the storage!
Many Thanks!
harmie
Now I have my system running at something fairly good I decided to follow Leo's tut on transferring the User and TEMP files to my HDD form the SSD but nothing is happening and I am obviously doing something wrong and I cannot quite see what. The tut is using XP so my right click on Computer comes up slightly different.
I highlight the path I want to transfer and specify the E: drive as per Leo but a check afterwards shows nothing in the HDD. Can someone give me a pointer please?
Hi guys first of all thanks for creating this awesome guide now i will like to contribute that i read that for us people running W7 using sata III controller will be more beneficial have indexing turn off than on:)
Ok so I'm a rookie to the SSD world, but if I buy a new laptop and swap out the factory hard drive for a SSD should I be following these steps? I would be doing a clean install to start fresh so with that in mind, during the instillation process is this where the SSD tutorial comes into play?
Last edited by Berkey; 20 Dec 2012 at 21:08.