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    Need Help With My SSD Crucial C300 256Gb

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by hamabucon, Apr 24, 2011.

  1. hamabucon

    hamabucon Newbie

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    After install windows 7 , my ssd might have a problem.
    My SSD booting to windows too slow and sometimes crashed in Windows 7 . I enabled TRIM , upgraded firmware for the SSD but the samething happened again.

    Booting from Alienware logo to the welcome screen about 60 seconds.

    I tried to put this SSD to my other laptop ( VAIO F134 ) and the boot time around 25 seconds.

    Can anyone tell me why ? Is that M15x Alienware have problem with the Crucial C300 or I did something wrong

    PS : all my driver like RST or Intel driver Storage Manager also the lastest firmware.
     
    hamabucon, Apr 24, 2011
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    Flame113 Notebook Geek

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    Have you tried to enable AHCI in BIOS yet? Maybe you forgot it
     
    Flame113, Apr 24, 2011
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  3. hamabucon

    hamabucon Newbie

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    Already Enabled.
    And I have one more problem , I tried to use Ailenware respawn and when I boot the DVD , it's said " Minimum requirement of disk storage is 485 GB " . I think it needs hard drive 500Gb to factory recovery
     
    hamabucon, Apr 24, 2011
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    JonnyFrost Notebook Consultant

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    JonnyFrost, Apr 24, 2011
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  5. hamabucon

    hamabucon Newbie

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    And another question is
    I tried to use Ailenware respawn and when I boot the DVD , it's said " Minimum requirement of disk storage is 485 GB " . I think it needs hard drive 500Gb to factory recovery

    Is that normal from Alien respawn ( This DVD I burned out from Alien Recovery Software when I use the hard drive 500Gb that included in laptop the first time )
     
    hamabucon, Apr 24, 2011
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    taylrjones Notebook Consultant

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    That's because Alien Respawn just creates a ghost image of the partition from the other drive. So your 500GB drive - file table and system partition must have been around 485 GB. You wont be able to use the respawn image, you're better off starting from scratch.
     
    taylrjones, Apr 24, 2011
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  7. hamabucon

    hamabucon Newbie

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    So , is there anyway that I can use the recovery mode for my ssd ?
     
    hamabucon, Apr 24, 2011
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    The Revelator Notebook Prophet

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    You will have much better results with a clean install on your new SSD rather than trying to clone your existing HDD. It's worth the additional time and effort involved.
     
    The Revelator, Apr 24, 2011
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  9. hamabucon

    hamabucon Newbie

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    Cause there is alot of driver out there , and I don't know what is the best driver for my laptop , like wireless , broadcom ..etc
     
    hamabucon, Apr 25, 2011
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  10. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Go to Drivers & Downloads

    Anything that your computer doesn't have simply will not install.
     
    namaiki, Apr 25, 2011
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