XCLx321H Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Sirs, I have a small question. I'm installing Win7 64bit SP1 on a new system, An SSD. Does the Drive(SSD) need to be Unallocated or on a Healthy (Primary Partition). Or does it matter just as long as there is no Partitions. And If Unallocated will the OS Find the Drive (SSD) in Disk Management. Thank You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 If there are no partitions on the SSD, the Windows installer will create one for you with a 100MB recovery partition. You can create a partition without the 100MB recovery using diskpart. Yes, the OS will see the Unallocated drive, it won't show in Computer, instead it will be found in Disk Management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCLx321H Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 Sirs, Thank you for the re-ply, It means a lot to me. My question is, When installing the OS (Win 7...) should the SSD be "Unallocated" or "Healthy (Primary Partition)" should the SSD be Formatted before installing Win 7, or No ! How's that ? Thank You Sirs..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 The SSD can have no partition (Unallocated) or have a partition already on it. It does not really matter as either way, with no partition on the SSD, the installer will create a one and a recovery partition, then install Windows. With a partition on it, it will install Windows without asking you to create a partition. If the partition on the SSD was created in Windows XP, format the drive and create one in the Windows installer as the partition is not aligned. So basically, The SSD can be "unallocated" or "healthy" when installing Windows. If the partition on it was created in Windows XP, format the drive and create a new one in the Windows 7 installer as the disk is not aligned. If the partition was created in Windows Vista onwards, you don't need to format the drive as the disk will be aligned. Depending on the SSD size, for smaller capacity drives, i would create a partition in Diskpart before installing Windows to prevent the ~100MB recovery partition. With larger ones, it really doesn't matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCLx321H Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 Sirs, Thank you for the Last reply, you answered my question. I would recommend a Corsair SSD, if not for the Drive but the Tool Box, and support. Thank you Sirs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert3892 Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 I swear by Corsair SSDs and wouldn't buy any other brand. I recommend only one partition on an SSD at any time. I prefer to keep large files, programs, and backups on mechanical hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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