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joanne



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 15 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I love SSD'S, mine made a massive difference to my aging Macbook Pro, you can make them the primary drive or have them as the secondary, just depends on what OS you are using, if you are doing a fresh install definitely make the primary drive.

Mine was bought from eBuyer, they have loads of deals

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 15 2:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm not doing a fresh install. It would be a secondary drive, unless that didn't make sense.

Windows 7

vegplot



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 15 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You'll get better (more noticeable) performance improvements if it's the main OS disk.

Nick



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 15 3:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Don't suppose I can just copy and paste the whole of C: can I?

joanne



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 15 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You might want to do something like this then https://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows

Nick



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 15 4:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thanks. Birthday is end of April. I shall be yelling for help shortly after, I imagine.

Nick



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 15 2:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

240gig drive plugged into a spare SATA slot on the mobo,has power. Can be seen in Device Manager, but not shown as a hard drive in My Computer.

I've created one large partition and ntfs formatted the ssd from a prompt, but it still cannot be seen as a usable drive.

I have multiple SATA sockets on the mobo, does it matter which I use?

dpack



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 15 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

and i was thinking LTDF

tahir



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 15 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nick wrote:
I have multiple SATA sockets on the mobo, does it matter which I use?


No.

You need Computer Management>Disk Management, it should appear there as an unallocated drive, you can partition it there.

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 15 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It had a partition, just needed to be called E:

I thought Windows did that automatically.

tahir



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 15 2:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nick wrote:
I thought Windows did that automatically.


Only for USB

Nick



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 15 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Blimey. How on earth does he fill 700gb of memory?

What on earth am I going to find...

Cathryn



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 15 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Does he know you're looking?

Nick



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 15 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

He does. He had some notice, but he doesn't appear worried.

Seems to have some movies and music I don't remember buying...


dpack



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 15 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


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