Install Vista 64 bit (SP1) onto Solid State Disk

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.

Motherboard: Asus P6T Delux
CPU: i7 940
SSD: OCZ Core V2, 120GB, SATA II, 2.5�

If it is possible, is there anything special that has to be done first or is
the SSD seen as a normal HD?

I would think the install would be no different then using a standard hard
disk.

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"Andy CP" <AndyCP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"I would think" isn't useful. Does anyone actually know please?

"David B." wrote:

I built my computer a couple months ago using Vista64 and a 60GB OCZ
SSD. From what I remember I had a few issues with getting the install
to recognize the SSD and I had to unplug all other drives. It was a
huge PITA but after I got it installed and patched up, it worked
beautifully. Just make sure that you put in a second standard hard
drive and move the page file and things like IE cache to it. SSD drive
life depends on how often they are written to so finding and moving as
many temp file locations to a second disk as you can extends its life.


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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
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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.

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"Pistol Pete" <pharrington@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I restored a backup of my hdd onto my new Intel x25-e 32g ssd. the system
stutered every 30-60 seconds (freezed actually).
I went ot OCZ forum and read about drive alignment - ssd vs hdd blocks ...
I tried the alignment "fix" and reinstalled vista. the stuttering stopped.
Not Satisfied with that, I have bought a second ssd, now in stripe and
install windows 7. Speed does not seem any faster?
So now I am wondering if there is some setting or configuration that still
could be done? I read sopmewhere on the ms technet that windows 7 has tweaks
or settings for ssd drives. can find neither info nor setting in win7?
Any one know about this?

I would not expect striping to help with two high transfer rate drives since
the processing required to combine the stripes back together again may
exceed the time required to read the striped data from both drives.

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