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DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.
I'm about to do a fresh and clean install of Win 7 on my current Vista machine...I'm not doing any kind of file-transfer/disk-clone stuff and then upgrading, just plan on buying a new SSD and installing Win 7 on that, then wiping the old hard drive to use for the storage I'll desperately need.

I've already backed up any files I deemed important onto another drive (documents, pictures, videos (porn), and figured I'll just re-download/install any programs I'll need, since it's not that many. I'm not even currently playing any games right now, so I don't even have to worry about trying to transfer saved game data over!

So it looks like all I'll have to do to have a happy SSD experience is enable ACHI? ACHI is something I set through the BIOS, then? (Though the OP also says it can be done after installation...is it better to do it before?) I've got the drivers installed on a flash drive, so let's hope my mobo and/or Win 7 let me install drivers from it, because I have no floppy drive.

Is the Corsair Force 3-series still the recommended drive? I have an older motherboard, it was purchased in October of 07, so it doesn't have SATA600...I'm guessing...Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6.

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