Greg,
Unfortunately, The X41 Thinkpad Tablet uses an strange oddball 1.8
inch drive that is a SATA drive but with a PATA front end... yeah I
know.... and the only one available is made by a Chinese company
called KingsSpec...so there is no utility. It breaks down to
I am surprised I don't see the usual 100MB hidden parititon in win7
C Win7 = 52.62
D XP = 6.34
I used Paragon to partition it in such a way that the XP partition
was created and first installed in a primary partition that was at
the bottom 6GB of the drive... so to speak... leaving free space in
front of the XP partition. When I installed win7 there was 52 GB of
free space in front of the XP partition. Even after install there is
25GB of unused space in the Win7 partition.
Are you saying that even though I set it up like this and it appears
like this in partitioning software, the SSD itself has data from both
operating systems written and mapped randomly all over the drive and
XP is not confined in a particular region of the SSD?
m
At 03:45 PM 8/2/2014, you wrote:
No. The TRIM command is only sent upon a triggering action--in Windows,
that's deleting a file or performing a format. It's worth noting that you
also need to be in AHCI mode for TRIM to function.
It's similarly worth pointing out that the impact of using XP will not be
limited to the XP partition. The drive controller's wear-leveling algorithm
obfuscates the true NAND block for every logical sector write, meaning that
your XP data will be spread across all of the blocks in the drive (leaving
blocks that have not been erased everywhere).
With only casual use of XP, it's unlikely to be a major problem, but I do
recommend using a drive with manufacturer-supplied utilities that can
"optimize" the drive. Just run that occasionally within W7 and you should be
fine.
-----Original Message-----
From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Winterlight
Sent: Saturday, August 2, 2014 4:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] SSD and XP ?
I am in the process of taking a old Thinkpad X41 Tablet,that had Win7 on it
and setting it up to multiboot new installs of . Win7 PRO SP1 and XPProSP3.
XP is installed and uses a 6GB partition. The only purpose of running XP is
to run a single legacy USB device. There is nothing else installed on XP.I
won't be using a browser or anything on the internet.
The laptop will primary use Win7 PRO. So will Win7 pro Trim the XP
partition when it is booted up? Thanks m
At 12:08 PM 8/2/2014, you wrote:
>XP doesn't support TRIM, the lack of which can slow SSDs down over time.
>Some handle it better than others. If it's a Samsung or Intel, install
>the manufacturer's utility and run the optimization. If it's anything
>else, the drive needs secure erased.
>
>Staying with XP should not be considered an option. Same goes for MSE,
>since it has turned to crap.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On
>Behalf Of FORC5
>Sent: Saturday, August 2, 2014 1:38 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [H] SSD and XP ?
>
>Any long term problem putting a SSD in XP ? What should I check ?
>
>Have one here with a SSD that has really slowed down. Not sure yet if
>the SSD or something else. Right off MSE went dormant so I need to
>remove and replace with something.
>Older Toshiba laptop. Them getting anything newer is not a option. I do
>have some regular laptop drives I could put in.
>thanks
>fp
>
>Date: Saturday, August 2nd, 2014
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