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rmcnamara
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I have a Crucial m4 SSD that I have been using for about a year. I have had windows on it. I would like to do a fresh install. The question I have is there anything special that I have to do to the drive besides deleting the partition in the installer. Or is there something that I have to do different because it is an ssd.

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Which Windows version? If it's Vista or later, it should've recognized your SSD if it's a native install to that drive. If it is, you can simply re-install Windows. That drive also does garbage collection which is the same as Trim. So nothing to worry about.

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Nothing special.

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Sorry it is windows 7. Is there any advantage to using the uefi. I'm using a gigabyte z77 board. I basically just let it boot with the default. Do I need to do anything special to use the uefi

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With an SSD just have trim enabled and disable Defrag. That's all you really need to look out for.

 

When installing a new OS if your mobo supports UEFI than that is going to be what you are wanting to enable before you install. It can change the look of the bios to make it nicer but also increases boot time by a few seconds.

 

You will want to enable UEFI in your bios than reformat the SSD with the windows installer.

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With an SSD just have trim enabled and disable Defrag. That's all you really need to look out for.

 

When installing a new OS if your mobo supports UEFI than that is going to be what you are wanting to enable before you install. It can change the look of the bios to make it nicer but also increases boot time by a few seconds.

 

You will want to enable UEFI in your bios than reformat the SSD with the windows installer.

Windows should always detect if it's an SSD and automatically disable scheduled defragment.

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Windows should always detect if it's an SSD and automatically disable scheduled defragment.

 

Mine didn't running windows 8. It is a Msata SSD although I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Always nice to double check though.

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Mine didn't running windows 8. It is a Msata SSD although I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Always nice to double check though.

That's quite odd..... 

Hmmm, maybe it is just because of the M-Sata?

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