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In essence is there an easy way (Under windows 7) to give your computer a command // run a program // whatever to copy your system completely over to an SSD -- walk away for a couple of hours -- come back and turn your computer off -- set the boot to the SSD and you are back in business?
Or do you have to re-install windows onto the SSD then re-install all of your drivers and the programs you use -- then copy all of the data files (major pain in the neck) -- IE what you would have to do if virus infected.
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If you mean the entire drive there are plenty of cloning utilities. A good one is Marcium Reflect... I use both the free and paid versions and they work great.
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I just reloaded fresh onto my ssd.
It's nice to have a fresh system.
All my important things stayed on my old drives and have always been backed up, plus most things are going to stay on the old drive (even though I formatted it and then copied it all back without the OS). No reason to store unnecessary things on the ssd.
So really it's just a few programs to install again. Didn't take long at all.
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intel SSDs come with cloning software
ocz's i think require you to DL software from somewhere else
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i did what ticky did. it boots in 15secs. scary fast.
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I would probably set up drive mirroring in windows, let them synch, then remove the old drive and break the mirror.
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-Dyslexia- posted:
i did what ticky did. it boots in 15secs. scary fast.
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TickyAtack posted:
I just reloaded fresh onto my ssd.
It's nice to have a fresh system.
This. I would strongly suggest a fresh load!
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regulator_cracka posted:
I would strongly suggest a fresh load!
You would.
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I also had to do some things to free up space. My 60gb drive had like 20gb left after windows installed.
I turned off page file which freed up a whole 16gb, disabled hibernate and ie8.
All the sudden I had like 41gb free, which was after I installed maya.
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TickyAtack posted:
I also had to do some things to free up space. My 60gb drive had like 20gb left after windows installed.
I turned off page file which freed up a whole 16gb, disabled hibernate and ie8.
All the sudden I had like 41gb free, which was after I installed maya.
pagefile made that much diff?
did you see a performance hit after disabling it?
and ie8? how did disabling that free up so much space.
not challenging joo...just curious...
and to the op.. there are lots of clonig software progs out there.. Acronis, Norton Ghost are just for that.. but ya, there is nothing like a fresh clean install.
i know it can be a pita..but more often than not it is totally worth it.
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I was wondering why page file took so much too, pretty retarded. No difference in performance.
ie8 freed up like 1gb.
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Pagefile is about 4gb on average.
Hibernate uses another 4-6gb on average
So yes, getting rid of that crap helps.
Look online for some SSD Performance / Tweak guides.
http://www.tweaktown.com/guides/3116/tweaktown_s_solid_state_drive_optimization_guide/index.html
http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/optimization-guides/the-ssd-optimization-guide-2/
These are both older, google for some newer versions maybe.
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Page files are typically the same size as your total amount of RAM.
I'd recommend moving the page file to a secondary (larger) drive rather than disabling it completely, but if you're like Ticky and have 16GB (apparently) RAM, it's not a big deal.
Turning off hibernation is a big deal. It's 4-8GB.
Oh, and the page file? You have to disable it at the command line, or the file doesn't get deleted.
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