Does calling it Windoze make you cool? No. Sorry.
As for the original question: yes, you can install Vista on a SSD with no
issues. It shows up just like a standard HDD. It does have a speed increase.
Nothing spectacular, but still a bit faster.
--
Dustin Harper
http://www.mstechpages.com
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"Pistol Pete" <pharrington@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
>I bought a DELL XPS M1530 laptopwith a 120 GB SSD. I am running the 64 bit
>version of Vista Home Ultimate (which sucks by the way
> but it is what comes with the laptop).
>
> The system boots and shuts down fast. The reason you want windoze to run
> on an SSD, is that Windows writes every single memory access to the hard
> disk as well as all sort of other crap. For this reason, windoze will run
> slowly on machines equipped with fast processors and ram. I would say that
> running windoze on an SSD is about 5x times faster than running it on a
> conventional hard disk. If you want a computer that appears to be fast
> then this is the way to go, install windoze on some type of fast media. I
> think MS said this as well way back before the SSD drives became available
> and people were complaining about how slow VISTA is.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Pete
>
> "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:gjdn9m02ddn@xxxxxx Quote:
>> "Andy CP" <AndyCP@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Quote:
>>> Is it possible to install Vista 64 bit (SP1) onto a SSD and make this
>>> bootable?
>>> As in, a PC that only has a SSD in it and no hard disks at all.
>>
>> I've not tried it with the 64-bit version of Vista (but will at some
>> point in the future) - but I've been running the 32-bit version of
>> Enterprise (with beta SP2) on a Thinkpad X61T (tablet) machine for a few
>> months with no obvious problems. (Caveat: this is a box being used to
>> test NAC products and not to test Vista, so it's not been stress-tested.)
>>
>> No special drivers, configuration settings, or magic waving of hands was
>> required, and none was required with the RTM version or with SP1.
>>
>> You do need to be attentive to the brand (and thus price) of your disk.
>> At the request of our chief engineer I installed an OCZ SSD (the latest
>> model) in the X60 Thinkpads (running XP) of two of my two-levels-higher
>> managers; within a few weeks they demanded that the disks be removed
>> because of lockups. I replaced the OCZ disks with ones from Samsung (at
>> twice the price) and have heard no complaints since then. (That lack of
>> problem reports is comforting, since I also installed a Samsung SSD in
>> the Thinkpad used by our CIO...)
>>
>> The non-stress-tested X60T I'm using has an early version of the OCZ SSD.
>> Whether the problems we've seen are related to the changes made between
>> the OCZ versions I don't yet know. (The newer version is the one that
>> includes a USB port to update the firmware.)
>>
>> All of the SSD's I've been working with are 64 GB units.
>>
>> Joe Morris
>> >
>