Re: [H] SSD and XP ?

2014-08-04 Thread James Boswell
yeah, Samsung offer extra configurability, but they are both overprovisioning :) On 3 August 2014 03:14, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote: 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.

Re: [H] SSD and XP ?

2014-08-04 Thread DSinc
Thank you, James. One day I may figure this new toy out. Duncan On 08/04/2014 15:38, James Boswell wrote: yeah, Samsung offer extra configurability, but they are both overprovisioning :) On 3 August 2014 03:14, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote: but crucial does not use space that can be used. I

Re: [H] SSD and XP ?

2014-08-04 Thread Winterlight
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

Re: [H] SSD and XP ?

2014-08-04 Thread DSinc
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

Re: [H] SSD and XP ?

2014-08-04 Thread FORC5
they do but Samsung uses space one could format and use. Samsung does have the ability to make a boot disk for secure erase. not sure if that would work on Crucial or not, probably not. I have one here I have to erase will probably just use w7 to re format it. fp At 12:38 PM 8/4/2014, James

Re: [H] about to give up/fixed I think

2014-08-04 Thread FORC5
thanks for pointing me in that direction took awhile but I wound up doing a clean boot with windows installer service enabled to get around the permission thing then was able to install subinacl and do a reset. I still think the cpu is running too much like the iexploer bug just will not go