How to install the Win7 system on a solid-state drive

Now the Win7 system has become the mainstream operating system, many computers will be pre-installed Win7 system, this tutorial for you to introduce how to install the Win7 system on the solid-state hard drive.

Perhaps you will think that SSD is also a hard disk, with the traditional mechanical hard disk installation is not the same? In fact, it is the same, but there will still be some friends encountered failed to install the system, and even can not play the performance of SSDs. Of course, here we do not say also continue to use XP God horse, because only Win7 SSD is the best partner!

How to install Windows 7 on a solid state drive

We want to let Win7 on the solid state Drive home, the installation of the media may be CD-ROM, it may be a U disk. But in the course of the installation, it is surprising that the installation of Windows 7 in other systems via daemon tools cannot be successfully installed on a solid-state hard drive.

Perhaps the solution is very simple: before installing Win7, as long as the operating mode of the hard disk set to AHCI, not only can successfully complete the system installation, but also greatly improve the performance of the hard drive. Why is that?

AHCI is an acronym for Serial ATA Advanced Master Interface, an Intel-led technology that allows storage drivers to enable advanced Sata features such as native command queues (NCQ) and hot-swappable. After AHCI can play the potential performance of SATA hard drive, theoretically can increase 30% of the hard disk read and write speed, because the mechanical hard drive internal transmission rate is low, AHCI can improve performance is very limited, but for solid-state hard disk is indeed very effective.

Here I introduce you to the way the BIOS opens the AHCI disk mode.

At power-on startup, press Del to enter the BIOS menu. We press the LEFT ARROW key to go to the "Chinpset" (chipset) menu (Figure 1). Then, select the "Southbridge Configuration" (South Bridge Configuration) Feature menu entry (Figure 2). Next, select "Onchip SATA type" (Onboard SATA types), set it to "AHCI" (Figure 3), and press F10 to save the exit.

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Performance advantages of Win7 on solid-state drives

SSD has a great advantage over traditional mechanical hard drives. For example, the installation of Win7 system, if it is a U disk installed to SSD, also a few minutes of things. And the system start time, the traditional hard drive, you may need 1 minutes more than 30 seconds, and SSD under the Win7, you only need 10 seconds. In addition, we recommend that all regular programs be installed on the system disk to improve performance, the previous boot Photoshop CS5.5 need to have more than 10 seconds, now only 5-6 seconds. Some of the program's history is more important (such as: thunder), we do not recommend installation to the system disk, and QQ is an exception, because in the installation process, it can be set up the main program and data file location.

Through the Win7 system rating may explain all this, before my mechanical hard disk score of only 5.9, and the score for solid-state drives unexpectedly reached 7.7, increased by 1.8, to know the Win7 score in 7.9 is the limit!

SSD HDD score under ▲win7

Pre-installed has become the mainstream, for most people, the regular installation of the system This behavior has become increasingly less. But will inevitably encounter because of hardware upgrades, system upgrades and so on, so we need to know some, what kind of hardware with what type of system can play its performance.