Gee, thanks Winterlight! I will go look/see.
Sorry to be so slowand deliberate.
Duncan
On 08/04/2014 16:14, Winterlight wrote:
You have received an answer but your just not getting it. Go here and
download the version you want.
http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm
Make a USB flash drive or CD and boot to that. Easy to use. Supports
SSD. The free version will write zeros to the drive. The paid version
will allow you to choose many different levels of security that will
meet any government specifications. ActiveBoot has many types of
professional diagnostic software. They have good support for the paid
versions.
Alternatively download free Parted Magic which will wipe and
refurbish the drive http://partedmagic.com. They have an support forum
if you need help or have questions the support forum is the place to
ask them.
At 12:29 PM 8/4/2014, you wrote:
Greg (winterlight/Forc5),
Thank you for your insightful shares. Over this past 2-3 days I have
learned a lot about SSD.
o Does not work well in XP, works in win7. Been there, tried this,
did not work, yet!
o Uses 'over-provisioning; woe be to those who dick with this!
o AHCI required !
OK, I do have 2 SSDs (AHCI) operational (Samsung 840pro-128GB). One
runs win7pro-64, one runs win8.1pro-64.
May I please ask about 'secure-erase?' I have read this term used,
but nobody shares how to do/use it.
I have a Crucial MX100-128GB SSD in hand. It is only mechanically
installed in my 'TEST' PC. I rcvd it from
my OB. OB seems to be stuck in the EM drive paradigm. Whatever. I do
know that OB installed this device,
and, did try to install an OS to it. Never happened. He sent the SSD
to me. I tried to install an OS on it also.
Never happened. Now I sit and wonder if this SSD is really broken?
I've gone to Crucial and peeked/poked. Odd that Crucial Support seems
not to even recognize the MX100 series.
?Opinions?
I'd sill like to try and install an OS on this drive.
Yes, this SSD is seen in the bios of this C2D PC (Asus P5Q3, 2GB
ram). Sadly, the processor also has one dead
core. Yes, this PC is first to be gutted/rebuilt!
Thanks for reading,
Duncan
On 08/02/2014 22:34, Greg Sevart wrote:
ALL SSDs have reserved capacity that no software can access and no
utilities
can even quantify. Samsung allows you to increase this
overprovisioned area
even more if you so desire (probably mostly for people irrationally
concerned about SSD wearout). They absolutely, positively do not
reduce the
user capacity by a single byte from the label capacity unless you
instruct
the software to do so. Any belief or statement otherwise is quite
simply
incorrect.
-----Original Message-----
From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf
Of FORC5
Sent: Saturday, August 2, 2014 9:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] SSD and XP ?
but crucial does not use space that can be used.
I do like the sw and it has a function to optimize on OS without trim.
confusing for these old grey cells.
used to be more fun.
At 06:44 PM 8/2/2014, James Boswell Poked the stick with:
FYI, the any SSD (Crucial included) has overprovisioning of flash to
allow for graceful cell failure management.
Samsung expose it in an adjustable fashion, you COULD minimise the
overprovision amount, but I'd say it's a very very very bad idea.
-James
On 2 August 2014 20:22, FORC5 <[email protected]> wrote:
kind of figured that, suppose I could clone it off and back.
drive is a Crucial ( I think) need to look at that. I like Samsung
except they use drive space for a OP partition. 10% recommended. bad
to loose space. Do like their sw, Crucial claims they are working on
some.
Any after market SW you can recommend ?
Already dl'ed AVG to replace MSE. Not sure what else to do.
So far have found some win32/trojans according to ESET. scan not done
yet.
hate working on antiques. :-)
thanks
fp
At 12:08 PM 8/2/2014, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with:
Date: Saturday, August 2nd, 2014
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