Partitioning an SSD

50Twuncle

Lum wrote: »

Did someone already partition it before it was sold to you?

Not that I know of...
I finally got the full partition showing and tried to clone my old HDD on to it - booting on the Acronis CD - But this fails - giving a meaningless ERROR "CLONE FAILURE"
So I have installed Windows on it - from DVD and it IS fast - 10 secs from cold to useable !!
Drivers, however are causing me problems - network and GBE Family controllers (not on Win 7 DVD)
But I am getting there slowly.....

Lum

Ahh, I've just noticed you said "100MB", not "100GB"

Windows, when installing on a fresh drive will actually create two partitions, one 100MB partition contains the bootloader and some other bits, and the other contains the OS itself. That may explain what you saw.

And yes, not having network drivers is always fun. Time to break out the USB flash memory and another computer that still works!

usefulmale

50Twuncle wrote: »

I have fitted my SSD and this has been detected by the BIOS and Windows - but as a 100Mb storage device (it IS 240Gb) - I went in to Admin Tools/Computer Management and formatted it as the full wack (NTFS primary partition) - however, when I reboot - it reverts to 100Mb !!
What am I doing wrong ?

I have just installed a 240Gb SSD on my laptop and the capacity is showing as 136Gb. I think its something to do with wear levelling.

50Twuncle

usefulmale wrote: »

I have just installed a 240Gb SSD on my laptop and the capacity is showing as 136Gb. I think its something to do with wear levelling.

No - not to 100Mb! !