Okay, well I swapped out my old SATA cable for a new SATA III cable that came with the motherboard and proceeded to reinstall windows on the V200 again. This time it worked flawlessly and much quicker, but I have a feeling it's not because of the cable switch. My mechanical hard drive needs to run in IDE mode to even boot windows for some reason, even though it's a SATA drive. So I forgot to switch my motherboard to AHCI mode before doing the installation on the SSD. So I'm using the SSD right now, but it's probably suffering from decreased performance due to it being installed and running in IDE mode rather than AHCI. I've also noticed that Windows 7 doesn't recognize that I'm using an SSD since the sleep, hibernate, and all those other unnecessary features are still active. I've read online that you can change the mode by changing some entries in the Registry. I think I'll try that before reinstalling and seeing if the speeds are where they should be.
This is the guide that I'm going to use:
http://www.windows7news.com/2010/05/25/how-to-enable-ahci-in-windows-7/
Do you guys think this will still cause my performance to be less than if I was to just clean install?
Edit: WTF is this shit?
Native IDE:
AHCI:
How the hell did I
lose performance by switching the AHCI? I've also noticed that my boot up time is about 3 seconds slower in AHCI mode instead of IDE, too.
Originally Posted by Amit
Okay, well I swapped out my old SATA cable for a new SATA III cable that came with the motherboard and proceeded to reinstall windows on the V200 again. This time it worked flawlessly and much quicker, but I have a feeling it's not because of the cable switch. My mechanical hard drive needs to run in IDE mode to even boot windows for some reason, even though it's a SATA drive. So I forgot to switch my motherboard to AHCI mode before doing the installation on the SSD. So I'm using the SSD right now, but it's probably suffering from decreased performance due to it being installed and running in IDE mode rather than AHCI. I've also noticed that Windows 7 doesn't recognize that I'm using an SSD since the sleep, hibernate, and all those other unnecessary features are still active. I've read online that you can change the mode by changing some entries in the Registry. I think I'll try that before reinstalling and seeing if the speeds are where they should be.
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