In honor of the DR has decided to please a loved buying SSD: it is very long wanted to know, What kind of animal these SSD.
For those, who do not know: SSD (Solid State Drive), which stands for Solid-enforcement drive, the form in most cases is a normal hard drive 2.5 inches (in notebooks, portable HDD), but, Unlike HDDs, SSD uses for flash memory storage. There are no mechanical parts — make all electrical circuits.
Well, get down to business. Why do we still need SSD, if you do not put on his Windows! Put Windu again I did not want: thought, that are copied to the SSD and everything will be OK, but not everything was so simple. That jumped read errors, sometimes I did not want me to ship Windows Files, in general, as a result of something like the system I suffered, but it was still not. System operation was possible only in IDE mode, and it is very well suited for SSD AHCI. But in this mode it I did not want to work as it should.
Having read all week Corsair and posts on forums “yellow beard”, suddenly decided to raise the voltage on South Bridge system board, someone recommended (it recommended to raise the voltage to somewhere 1.15V on PCH, but the settings only for the PCH I have not found, but it was setup SB Voltage. I put her in 1.20 instead of 1.10). And at the same time in another port inserted the disk itself, so surely. Continuation —>>
Now you need to know, that SSD normal formatting is not suitable due to its structure, so you need to make a Secure Erase. This can be done out of the system linuksovskoy, scored hdparm –secure-erase / dev / sda, where sda — this is your SSD. View all disks in Linux, use the command sudo parted -l or sudo fdisk -l (I like the first, because it provides data in a human format, because I do not like in the mind of the bytes to transfer gigabytes). You can also do better: search utility for Secure Erase your disk drive manufacturer's website! Or read here there . (universal way for any SSD, but there may be nuances).
After this, in Windows 7 create a partition (it is necessary to set the correct alignment). And in Linux, you can also. I recommend to use COMPLETE formatting instead of fast. Then you can put the system. By the way, Formatting can be done right when you install Windows 7.
Get back to me again and my sheep. I forgot to mention, I have a motherboard ASUS P5Q3. In general, as I already said, clean install of Windows 7 I do not fit. In the end, I just copied the image of the current system through Acronis True Image (or Acronis Backup and Recovery) and then transferred to the SSD. Next, you need to get into the registry editor (regedit) and connect the registry hive from SSD_disk:\windows system32 config SYSTEM .
It interests us section MountedDevices (we remove it just). And you need to change in ControlSet1 (there may be several. The figure at the end of — configuration identifier. The ID can be found in Section Select Default — I was there 1). in general CurrentControlSet1 Services mountmgr NoAutoMount — set it to 0. Now Unload Hive. Next you need to put in the BIOS first SSD drive in the boot list, and start with a Windows installation disc 7, which we call the command line (Shift F10), We introduce to notepad.exe, choose in Notepad File-> Open, and look in Windows Explorer, which letter in our drive SSD. Let it be G:. remember it, close the notebook, and set bootmgr on this disk commands bootsect / nt60 G: /mbr / force.
Then more can be done
bootrec / FixBoot
bootrec / FixMbr
bootrec / RebuildBcd
For those, who do not know: SSD (Solid State Drive), which stands for Solid-enforcement drive, the form in most cases is a normal hard drive 2.5 inches (in notebooks, portable HDD), but, Unlike HDDs, SSD uses for flash memory storage. There are no mechanical parts — make all electrical circuits.
Well, get down to business. Why do we still need SSD, if you do not put on his Windows! Put Windu again I did not want: thought, that are copied to the SSD and everything will be OK, but not everything was so simple. That jumped read errors, sometimes I did not want me to ship Windows Files, in general, as a result of something like the system I suffered, but it was still not. System operation was possible only in IDE mode, and it is very well suited for SSD AHCI. But in this mode it I did not want to work as it should.
Having read all week Corsair and posts on forums “yellow beard”, suddenly decided to raise the voltage on South Bridge system board, someone recommended (it recommended to raise the voltage to somewhere 1.15V on PCH, but the settings only for the PCH I have not found, but it was setup SB Voltage. I put her in 1.20 instead of 1.10). And at the same time in another port inserted the disk itself, so surely. Continuation —>>
Now you need to know, that SSD normal formatting is not suitable due to its structure, so you need to make a Secure Erase. This can be done out of the system linuksovskoy, scored hdparm –secure-erase / dev / sda, where sda — this is your SSD. View all disks in Linux, use the command sudo parted -l or sudo fdisk -l (I like the first, because it provides data in a human format, because I do not like in the mind of the bytes to transfer gigabytes). You can also do better: search utility for Secure Erase your disk drive manufacturer's website! Or read here there . (universal way for any SSD, but there may be nuances).
After this, in Windows 7 create a partition (it is necessary to set the correct alignment). And in Linux, you can also. I recommend to use COMPLETE formatting instead of fast. Then you can put the system. By the way, Formatting can be done right when you install Windows 7.
Get back to me again and my sheep. I forgot to mention, I have a motherboard ASUS P5Q3. In general, as I already said, clean install of Windows 7 I do not fit. In the end, I just copied the image of the current system through Acronis True Image (or Acronis Backup and Recovery) and then transferred to the SSD. Next, you need to get into the registry editor (regedit) and connect the registry hive from SSD_disk:\windows system32 config SYSTEM .
It interests us section MountedDevices (we remove it just). And you need to change in ControlSet1 (there may be several. The figure at the end of — configuration identifier. The ID can be found in Section Select Default — I was there 1). in general CurrentControlSet1 Services mountmgr NoAutoMount — set it to 0. Now Unload Hive. Next you need to put in the BIOS first SSD drive in the boot list, and start with a Windows installation disc 7, which we call the command line (Shift F10), We introduce to notepad.exe, choose in Notepad File-> Open, and look in Windows Explorer, which letter in our drive SSD. Let it be G:. remember it, close the notebook, and set bootmgr on this disk commands bootsect / nt60 G: /mbr / force.
Then more can be done
bootrec / FixBoot
bootrec / FixMbr
bootrec / RebuildBcd
and the utility itself will make Rebild boot configuration windows. Next you reboot and boot from SSD. (
PS: If you did not work, then check, whether section Active. (to establish whether it is possible through diskpart acronis disk director).
Useful links
- http://forums.overclockers.ru/viewtopic.php?t=417832 — Very super-duper article!
In general, Now we have made friends with SSD) U-bye-bye
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