SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

Ukiii said:

Bare Foot Kid,
Thank you for your reply. However I still didn't get an answer in regard to the following; can you have a look at this?

I intend to install Win 7 on a new SSD. My questions are:

1. If I follow your tutorial and create the partitions through diskpart, and create that 200MB reserved for system space, what letter is it going to have assigned by the Win installer?

Thank You BFK.

You don't assign a letter and Windows 7 will not assign a letter during the install, it will automatically leave the letter blank, that's the reason for naming it "System Reserved" in-case that's a prerequisite. That way it'll be "hidden" to the OS so things won't mistakenly get saved there.

My apologies, I meant to answer this and got sidetracked.

Ukiii said:

BFK,

Once again thank you for your help with it. Much appreciated.

Cheers,

My pleasure mate.

Case1 said:

I am trying to limit the number of things on my SSD drive, the OS and one other main program I use. Currently I have Mozilla and Chrome installed on my HDD. I have noticed that only IE will pull up a program called Gotomeeting correctly, Mozilla and Chrome will just hang the program and I have to close out of it. It has only been doing this since I installed the SSD drive...should I have Mozilla and Chrome installed on the SSD drive to get Gotomeeting to work correctly or does that even have anything to do with why Gotomeeting will not work correctly on these two browsers? I have a 64 bit OS.

Casey

Don't know about Gotomeeting but, I would recommend to put Mozilla and Chrome on your SSD.

Most apps will run better on the SSD, just keep all personnal data and files saved on your HDD.

Case1 said:

Hi Ted, should I have my browsers on the SSD or reg HD or doe sit matter?

Thanks,

Casey

All program files should be on the SSD - for faster access. Else you defeat the purpose of the SSD which is fast access. The same goes for ALL other OS files. And do not disable Superfetch. It provides the fastest access of all.

PS: Ted, I hope you don't mind. Looked like you were "out of town".

Hello Casey.



If you haven't disabled Superfetch then it's on; 2 things though, disable hibernate if you don't use it and set the maximum disk usage for system restore to about 2GB; that's a good start. How big is the SSD?



Hello Wolfgang, thanks I appreciate the help.

Your specs say Intel 40GB, they don't make a 60GB...yet