Windows 7 X300 SSD drive recognition

I just upgraded my X300 OS to Windows 7 ultimate (fresh installation), however, I can not verify that Win7 has recognized the Samsung mccoe64g8mpp-0va drive as SSD (as it should). The system temp is higher than it should be and system defrag is not disabled by default. I have already installed all the drivers and patches that is available in the Lenovo site. Is there a way to verify that Win 7 see the drive as SSD and if not, is there a way to make it see the drive correctly? Any suggestion will be appreciated.

If I may, I have a slight different situation in that I have two HDD installed rather than a single HDD and a SSD. I cannot seem to install Vista on a dedicated 500GB HDD (replacing the Superdrive, it's now external) using Boot Camp. I create the partition (the whole drive) and it wants to reboot for installation. When I do this, I only get to the white Apple logo screen where it also flashes a file gif with a ? in the middle of it; back and forth without accomplishing anything. I even removed the OSX drive so that only the 2nd drive was visible, but upon option boot, the drive isnt' recognized. What am I missing?

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LENOVO U310, windows 7, SSD drive showing in bios but not in the disk management

Hi,
I recently installed windows 7.
But after installing I found out the the computer is not waking from sleep. When I enter the password and press enter the screen becomes blank. I have to again restart the system.
Doing some googling I found out that SSD drive does the caching when iRST is used.
So I tried to look for SSD in the Disk management, But I can see only 1 500 GB HHD. It doesn't show the SSD drive.
Even the Intel Rapid Storage technology is not detecting. It shows internal empty port 0.
But when I checked in the BIOS, in the system information i can see the SSD mentioned.
If any one of you have faced the same problem and/or know some work around then please help.
Thanks,
Sumit

Sounds one of the following problems:
1.) The drive is formatted MBR w/ win 8 features enabled / legacy disabled.
2.) A "dynamic" drive is present.

Ghosting of X300 SSD drive through Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5

I have downgraded my X300 from Vista to XP Pro SP2. Now I want to ghost it thorugh Symancte Ghost Soltuion Suite 2.5, what I did, I created an image and place it to our storage area. Now when I restore that image on another x300 and start that laptop, it is giving an error "Signature Faliure". I used ghost -ib switch also but it didn't work.
Is there any another way to create or restore image of SSD?

I have downgraded my X300 from Vista to XP Pro SP2. Now I want to ghost it thorugh Symancte Ghost Soltuion Suite 2.5, what I did, I created an image and place it to our storage area. Now when I restore that image on another x300 and start that laptop, it is giving an error "Signature Faliure". I used ghost -ib switch also but it didn't work.
Is there any another way to create or restore image of SSD?

Could anyone of you please who has a clean install of Windows 8.1 on the SSD drive look at some settings of certain services (below)?

Hi everyone,
could anyone of you please
who has a clean install of Windows
8.1 on the SSD drive look at some settings
of certain services (below)?
Thank you.
Prefetch and Superfetch. In registry located on way
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet\ Control\ SessionManager \MemoryManagement \PrefetchParameters.
I am interested in EnablePrefetcher and
EnableSuperfetch REG_DWORD value.
Just a number in parentheses.
ReadyBoot. In registry located on way HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet\Control \WMI\Autologger\ReadyBoot.
I am interested REG_DWORD value of
Start. Just a number in parentheses.
Run dfrgui command. Go to Change settings and have a look if SSD on which is the system installed is included in regular optimalization schedule.
Registry can be accessed running regedit command.

Hi,
Prefetch and Superfetch means that most commonly used files are stored to disk to be more quickly accessed later.
For Prefetch:
Disable Caching: 0
Cache Applications Only: 1
Cache Boot Files Only: 2
Cache Everything (default): 3
For SuperFetch:Disable Caching: 0
Cache Boot Processed Only: 1
Cache Applications Only: 2
Cache Everything (default): 3
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WMI\Autologger\ReadyBoot\Start value means:
disable: 0
enable: 1
For more information about clean installation of Windows 8.1 on SSD, I suggest you read below article:
Windows 8.1 SSD Settings, Etc.
http://www.tweakhound.com/2013/11/02/windows-8-1-ssd-settings-etc/
Please Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Karen Hu
TechNet Community Support

Is it okay to do a bare metal Linux Mint 17 install, or do I need to keep Windows 8 on my SSD drive?

I will be installing a new Samsung EVO SSD drive in a new T540p. I really don't use Windows anymore, so I'm wondering if I have to keep Windows 8 on this machine and set up a dual boot with the new Mint 17 on the new SSD - or - can I just install the Mint on the new bare metal SSD? Can I do this and still have UEFI too? I'd prefer that. It would just be Mint 17 on the UEFI SSD.
Or is this a crazy idea? My old computer is dual boot and I just don't use the Windows OS anymore. It's just uselessly using up my drive space.
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The T540p is a really nice machine. I have Windows 8.1 running on mine. The display is fantastic. I'm sure you will really enjoy yours.

H8-1240ef - installing Windows 7 on a ssd drive

Hi,
I have a HPE h8-1240ef with a 1 TB SATA III drive.
I would like to add a 64 GBytes SSD SATAIII Drive in order to install Windows 7 on it , to increase performances.
Since we do not have a "Windows 7 installation CD" with the HP machine, I do not know how to install Windows 7 on the SSD drive and swap the bootable volume, to have the SSD Drive viewed as C: Drive.
Many thanks for your help
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Hey Grboutin,
You will need recovery discs to recover the system. But you will need a 160GB SSD as the minimum size to recover the system using recovery discs.
You can create the recovery discs on your PC, just type in Recovery in the start menu and Recovery Manager should show up. Follow the instructions to create the recovery media either on DVD or a thumb-drive.
here is a link.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01867124&tmp_task=solveCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&ju...
but - the key is - ANY SSD will not work, you HAVE to have a 160GB or larger to recover to. Otherwise you will need to purchase a retail version of windows.
good luck
bill
I'm a HP employee

Doesn't detect 32 GB SSD drive on XPS 14 after windows reinstallation

Hey everyone!
I have a XPS with a normal 500 gb drive and a 32 SSD drive.
I had to reinstall windows as a cause of my original drive failing and thus installing a new one, but after doing this the computer doesn't see the 32 SSD as being there. I tried finding a driver for it through the Dell website but so far no luck, how should I fix this issue?
Any help greatly appreciated!
Cheers Klaus Asbjørn

The SSD when set to the IRST SATA operation will not display within Windows in Disk Manager or Windows Explorer. The IRST application will however detect it and use it as a cache drive.

Better ssd driver for windows 7

I've been using boot camp to run windows 7 on my macbook air flawlessly for about 6 months now (13.3 inch, 128gig SSD, core 2 procs).
However, the SSD driver is really starting to wear on me. I've used windows 7 with an SSD before and it's resume times are near instant. The boot camp driver is not good. Does Apple have any plans to change this? I honestly can appreciate you don't want Windows performing too well on these machines and would rather people use OSX, I completely get that and to a point I agree with it, but there is also the very valid point that I spent close to $1400 on a machine that has windows 7 support and it should be able to perform properly with an SSD. Some of us are tied to using windows, I like OSX, but I can't change the windows 7 dependancy I have for work.

Try Windows 8, it feels better.
I have seen and read where Apple has been "doing things their way" and not using AHCI for well ever since Mac Pro came out iwth Intel 5 yrs ago.
Apple does not provide thermal fan control, a big no-no.
Which is why I have been telling people 95% is not good enough, and why I spent a fortune building a couple PC workstations. Cost as much or more than getting another Mac Pro, for each, but then I got to choose the parts and knew what I would have and getting into.
So yes, totally understand switching back to PC.
Macintosh Performance Guide: Thoughts on the future of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air
My MacBook Pro 17" Has Gone Back to Apple for A Full Refund
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2011/20110814_1_MacBookPro--ssd.html
OS X has lacked TRIM and suffer degredation and other issues under OS X which is what a majority of people look and ask for, and which was only lately supported with OEM Apple SSD and not retail 3rd party.
But there are and will be limitations to the whole "Windows on Mac" experience.
OWC is working to provide a good SSD experience and they have a new SSD for Air.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Aura_Pro_1.8
2011 MacBook Pro SATA Problems Resolved! | Other World Computing Blog
I just don't think Apple stacks the deck or cares or tries, I just think there are a lot of areas where they are just Mac focused and not always in the best manner there either.
With Apple EFI/SMC you are not going to see firmware updates, I still get some for older PC but Apple did post this:
Macintosh Performance Guide: Apple EFI Firmware Update Fixes Some SATA 6G Problems?
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Trouble booting Windows 8 from mSATA SSD drive on HP Envy

I’m having an issue booting Windows 8 from my mSATA SSD drive (I believe that’s the correct terminology, it connects directly to the motherboard.) I have a HDD that, it appears to me, it is trying to boot from. The bios does not let me specifically select the boot drive, just disk. I can boot from the SDD if I either remove the HDD or go through boot options and select to boot from an EFI file. A little background – I’ve had this running Windows from the SSD drive since I got it (installed that way) and using the HDD for storage. My SSD drive had been removed and Windows installed on the HDD (since this is the HP forum I won't get into how this happened when I sent my laptop in for an unrelated repair.) Seems I should be able to get it booting from the SSD again since it has not changed. I’ve since removed the partitions and reformatted the drive. I also tried setting up the EFI files on the HDD using BCDBOOT, maybe I didn’t need to/did it wrong/something else. Seems this is not an uncommon issue but trying various things I’ve not yet been successful. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Ralph,
thanks a lot for the helpful information! But the problem still persists, and I don't know what's wrong about the installation. I again checked the case and device are fully compatible with Windows 8 on USB 3 and the current boot camp drivers are installed - so everything should work perfectly fine as Windows 8 does natively support booting from external USB-3-devices.
I personally still assume it's rather a driver related problem as the external SSD doesn't even show up whilst booting into the boot menu with "Alt" pressed - I can only choose to boot from the external SSD within the "start volume" menu in OSX (which then doesn't work out when rebooting, unfortunately). I mean, if there was a chance to boot from the external SSD with the configuration I got right now, but OSX/the iMac just "doesn't know" it shall boot from the external partition and therefore rather chooses the internal boot camp partition, the SSD would at least show up in the boot menu when pressing "Alt" on start-up, or do I go completely wrong? I even tried to rename the internal bootcamp partition (which did not work out) or disable it in order to prevent OSX/the iMac to boot from the internal bootcamp partition, but it didn't help: After rebooting it again chose the internal boot camp partition to start from.
Might the deletion of the internal partition be worth a try? Meaning is there a realistic chance that the issue might be caused by that? I would give it a try although I really don't wanna loose the internal boot camp partition for no good reason (btw: would it be possible to clone an image back from the external SSD to the internal HDD then?). Or do you maybe have any other idea what driver could miss resp. could be wrong about the installation so the boot process from the external SSD fails...?
Again MANY MANY THANKS in advance for your further assistance, everybody!!

Does anybody have a functioning 17" mbp with a 6Gb/s SSD drive?

I ordered a MacBookPro 17" (June 2011) with the 7200rpm hard drive which is a slow drive, but comes at no extra cost with the machine.
The ssd's Apple ships with the mbp's are relatively slow and expensive, so I do not consider them an option. I therefore ordered an OWC Mercury Pro 6G (240GB) sata3 SSD drive and replaced the hard drive with it. Under both Snow Leopard and Lion I get beach balls almost continuously. Installing the ssd in a co-workers 15" mbp makes the drives work at over 500 mb/s, so the drive is not the problem.
I explained this to the people at AppleCare's helpdesk and they state, since I used a non Apple item, they can't help me. They tell me to go to a local reseller and have them install the ssd for me. This way the mbp is still valid for AppleCare. The local reseller won't touch my mbp since I bought it online at Apple (and not at his store), plus I did not buy the OWC drive in his store. In short, AppleCare is useless here. They claim I should've ordered one of the Apple ssd's (which are basically sata2 drives).
Since the 17" mbp supports sata3 and has the fastest processors of the mbp range (which is why I bought it in the first place) I do not understand why Apple would force me to 'downgrade' to a non current ssd. I work with large 3D drawing files as well as multilayered large photoshop files, so having a fast drive is very beneficial to my workflow. The hardware in the 13" and 15" mbp's support the functionality of a 6G ssd in practice, whereas the 17" mbp only does that on paper. Selling my 17" and swapping it for a 15" model seems the only option but I refuse to believe a company that claims to be technologically advanced can ignore having specifications that only work on paper. There is no record, comment or even gossip of Apple indicating this is a problem, let alone they are working on a fix, despite finding numerous forums online where people have the same problem I have.
So for the record, on the official Apple Support site, directed to both Apple developers and users:
Is there anybody that has a functioning 17" MBP with a 6Gb/s SSD?
If you have, please let me know the specs or your machine and drive so I can see if there is a solution to unleash the full potential of my MBP.
I believe there is no sadder sight than the sullen tread of a caged (osx) Lion. Help me free the desert's fallen king!! ;-)

Thanks wjosten for your reply. I filled out a feedback form.
To comment on AussieDJ's post: I tried the OWC shielding kit, doesn't work. The problems described with 6Gb/s ssd's were all with pre March MBP's. Mine is a June 2011 MBP so I figured the problem would've been solved in the mean time. I guessed wrong there. Since I waited for the release of OSX Lion (and the trim support functionality) I thought this would solve the spinning beach ball issue. I guessed wrong there as well. Can't return the ssd anymore (>30 days) so I glued the ssd on our offices "wall of shame". Being an architecture office we have everybody in the office put up poorly designed objects here (sort of a cool and uncool board but then labelled ***? and No way!). I should've glued y 17" MBP on this wall actually (since it's hardware does not work with the 6Gb/s ssd), but the bugger is too heavy and won't stick... ;-)
The worst part of the story is that my dad got his 6Gb/s ssd to wortk in his windows notebook...and he does not skip an opportunity to rub it in (your MBP can't do no 6G)!
Let's hope there will be an EFI update!

Mac Pro 2009 SSD Drive

I know there have been other topics related to this, but I haven't been able to find a straight answer about what drives would be the best. I'd like to be sure before I buy anything.
At the moment I have a Mac Pro with just a 1TB drive that came with it from the factory. I want to install a SSD drive as the boot drive, but i'm a bit confused as to which one to go for. By looking through forums, a lot of people seem to be saying Intel make the best drives? Am I wrong?
I was thinking of this drive:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-004-IN
Is there another around the same capacity that would work better and is maybe a bit cheaper? ~64gb would work too. I see the Kingston ones are cheap, but their read/write speeds seem poor.
This one looks good too:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-079-SA&groupid=701&catid =14&subcat=910
I was thinking of getting two if I can afford it so I can have windows on one of them to play games. But it would probably work out cheaper to get a 128gb drive and partitioning it, wouldn't it?
Any help would be appreciated!

Hi Steve,
OCZ replaced my Agility EX 60GB SLC SSD with their much more expensive, top of their range Vertex EX SLC SSD.
The reason for OCZ doing this was that the Agility EX had been discontinued. According to OCZ, the reason was: "We no longer get the Nand that is on the drive, not that there is anything wrong, we just don't have a competitive source for it."
This sounds like a reasonable explanation to me, because the Agility EX was extremely competitively priced compared to other Single Level (Layer) Cell SSDs. Also, it used Intel NAND, whereas, according to third party reviews, their other SSDs use Samsung. Perhaps Intel didn't like OCZ selling Single Level (Layer) Cell SSDs at a price much lower than Intel's own 'E' Series of SLC SSDs, and so they upped the price of their NAND to OCZ? It seems plausible.
I did a clean install of the Mac OS and all my applications, and I am very happy with the result. Start up time has been more than halved, and applications launch like greased lightning, even Aperture 2 which used to be a bit of a pig!
The only downside, as far as I am concerned, is that, apparently, it is impossible to update the firmware on a 2009 Nehalem Mac Pro. The Vertex EX came with version 1.3, which is equivalent to 1.4 on other OCZ SSDs, but 1.5 was released at the end of January. "Samsara" had raised the problem of OCZ firmware updates in a post on another thread, and I took this up with OCZ.
The last I heard from them was on10th. February, when they commented:
"1.3 on the EX drives = 1.4 revision on the other drives.
Have you tried to boot with one of the update CD's?
Let me see if I can find a solution, the problem being that the program that checks the SSD for the proper FW, has to be able to write the file somewhere. This is done through a ramdisk, which is part of the boot on the CD."
Obviously, they have yet to find a solution to this problem!
Despite the fact that the 1.5 firmware update would make the Vertex EX even faster, it is still an extremely fast drive.
However, if I had waited another 2 months before ordering an SSD (I bought the Agility EX last December), I would definitely have ordered the OWC Mercury Extreme, even though it would have meant importing it from the USA.
OWC are primarily a Mac friendly company, whereas OCZ, Intel and other SSD manufacturers pitch their products at the PC market.
The reviews of the OWC Mercury Extreme speak for themselves.
This "folk" says "NO BRAINER! BUY THE OWC MERCURY EXTREME!"
Regards, Bill
PS
MacFormat UK reviewed the following 120/128GB capacity SSDs in the issue I referred to earlier:
Crucial M225, Imation M-Class, Intel X25-M Mainstream, Kingston SSD Now V-Series, OCZ Agility Series, Patriot Torqx, Transcend, and Transcend Ultra.
The winner ( 4 out of 5 stars) was the Crucial M225. The ratings were based upon 3 tests - Value, Extras, and Speed.
Although the Kingston scored 5 stars for both Value and Extras, it was the slowest by a mile, scoring only 1 star in the Speed test.
The Patriot Torqx was the fastest of these drives, and scored 5 stars in the Speed test, and so did the Crucial M225, OCZ Agility, and Transcend Ultra.
Overall Ratings:
4 Stars - Crucial M225
3.5 Stars - Kingston Now V Series, Patriot Torqx
3 Stars - Imation M-Class
2.5 Stars - Intel X25-M Mainstream, OCZ Agility, Transcend, and Transcend Ultra
As far as "Speed" goes the OWC Mercury Extreme would have blown all the above away!
"Extras" really shouldn't have been a consideration in the review as far as I am concerned. None of them would have been of any use to me!
"Value" is something which can only be determined by the individual purchaser's requirements and judgement. Personally, I would not even consider buying an SSD which scored 5 Stars for Value, but only 1 Star for Speed. I would sooner spend more money per GB to obtain 5 Stars for Speed.
In my opinion the OWC Mercury Extreme is fantastic value for money, particularly when you take into account its read and write speeds, and let's face it, the reason most of us buy SSDs is for increased performance!

HP Probook 4320S Windows XP SSD Support?

Hi Guys
I've got a HP Probook 4320S running Windows XP Pro SP3, and I'm considering upgrading the hard drive from a traditional HDD to a SSD. I was wondering my HP Probook 4320S would support a SSD drive and would Windows XP even recognise it?
Any advice or help would be most appreciated.
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You're very welcome.
You should be fine then.
If you have a HP XP recovery disk, that indeed should have the applicable sata ahci drivers included.

Installing three SSD drives on Mac Pro

Hello,
I followed the advice given here and bought 3 Samsung 840 SSD drives for my Mac Pro. Two of them are 120GB and one is 250GB.
I also purchased a Tempo SSD Pro 6GB/s SATA PCIe Drive. Only one of them (that holds two SSDs.)
I plan on using:
     • one SSD for the OS and APPS
     • one SSD for a PS scratch disc
     • one SSD for the photoshop, premiere pro, and after effects files I'm currently working on.
I figured I'd keep the 1TB HDD currently used in the computer to store all my other files.
I also have a 1TB seagate extrenal HDD that I would like to set up as a back up or time machine.
Does this sound good?
If so, which SSD do I install in my regular sliding drawer bay? I have 2.5" - 3.5" adapter.
Which two do I install on the PCIe card?
Which on do I use for what?
As you can see I'm clueless. Lol
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Mac Pro
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Processor 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
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Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB
Software OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)
Storage 1TB Sata disc (423.26GB free),
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Thank you so much. You have already been a HUGE help in the past posts and look forward to your wisdom. 8 )
Matt

Clone the system to the SSD you plan to use for system.
How much disk space is your system using now? w/o incl. anything in /Users, so just system.
If your system uses 60GB you want to use the 240GB SSD.
I think 120GB is on small side for scratch alone.
move projects to scratch array when you want to work on them: "Work disk + scratch" is fast. Then move them off the array, erase the array, and start a new project.
I would try the 2 x 120 SSDs on PCIe 6G as scratch and see how it feels and works.Try and test. No harm. I think that is what most people do, they experiement and try out different setups to find the one that works best for them.
Important: Have a clone of the system and be ready to restore or move it around as needed.
Install TRIM Enabler of course.
SSD Maintenance
Samsung recommends setting aside 10% for over-provisioning.
Their Windows utility, shame there isn't a Mac version.
#2: Try system on 120GB in drive bay with an adapter
With that then use the other two on the Tempo.
Those could be one large 360GB volume JBOD.
You will have to see how much your scratch space gets used.
I would have argued for 3 x 240GB SSDs. More flexible. Better SSD design - slightly. Adds $140 to the price, even if you had to wait to get 3rd one;
#3 get 2 x 240GB for scratch and projects and 1 x 120GB for system (if your system is less than 50GB)
I doubt you will find the difference of the system on the Sonnet Tempo a deciding factor.
The Sonnet Tempo Pro is for higher I/O RAID, both Tempo cards support 2 x SSDs (I have the cheaper one)
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Series-120GB-internal-MZ-7TD120BW/dp/B009NHAF06/
PS: You have Mountain Lion. Buy Carbon Copy Cloner and it will clone the system and create the recovery volume also so you should not need to redownload 10.8.x - and you do not need the DVD with 10.6.4 again.

I've replaced my optical drive with an SSD drive, now what?

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Load up the Lion thumbdrive and install Lion on the SSD (ignoring for now the Lion OS on the 1.5TB drive) and then import all settings from the old drive to the new one?
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Just the System folder or the System and Library folders? What about the User folder? It's huge obviously, so I clearly can't bring that in, but are there parts of it that should be on the SSD?
I'm also running Parallels, so should I drag _that_ applications folder over as well, _out_ of the Users folder? How about the Virtual Machines, the Windows.PVM and Linux.Pvm virtual machines?
Instead of installing Lion, maybe I should drag the appropriate folders over?
I'm sure it's going to be a mix of these, but not sure what the optimal mix is.
Thanks,.
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So now I have a formatted 60GB SSD inside my iMac in the optical drive space, alongside my existing 1.5TB spinning drive which holds the Lion OS.
What would be the best way to proceed? Should I . . .
Load up the Lion thumbdrive and install Lion on the SSD (ignoring for now the Lion OS on the 1.5TB drive) and then import all settings from the old drive to the new one?
I want all system and all applications to be loaded on the SSD drive and the remaining space I plan to use for editing purposes, such as movies, photos etc. Load them onto the fast drive for editing then off onto the spinning drive for archiving and later re-editing and use.
So once I have a new OS installed on the new drive, what do I delete off of the old drive to get rid of the operating system there without losing any data?
Just the System folder or the System and Library folders? What about the User folder? It's huge obviously, so I clearly can't bring that in, but are there parts of it that should be on the SSD?
I'm also running Parallels, so should I drag _that_ applications folder over as well, _out_ of the Users folder? How about the Virtual Machines, the Windows.PVM and Linux.Pvm virtual machines?
Instead of installing Lion, maybe I should drag the appropriate folders over?
I'm sure it's going to be a mix of these, but not sure what the optimal mix is.
Thanks,.
JoeL
Atlanta, GA

How do I install a SSD drive - the Bios does not allow changing to AHCI mode

I have a Windows 7, HP ENVY approx 1.5 years old. I want to install an SSD drive, however the BIOS seems to be locked, or does not include options to change the SATA connection to AHCI or RAID.
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AHCI is enabled by default on today's HP consumer notebooks.
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