Windows 7 System Image Restore to SSD - SSD not detected?
- by steviey
I recently bought a new SSD (OCZ Vertex 2 120GB) as a replacement for my laptop HDD . I created a System Image on an external drive using the Win 7 backup and restore tool and then restored this image to the SSD using the Win 7 disk.
AHCI is enabled in Win 7 and the BIOS, but it seems that windows is not detecting the disk as an SSD because, in the defragger, the disk is still available for defragging. Prefetch and Superfetch were also still enabled.
I have manually disabled scheduled defragging, prefetch and superfetch. I have also checked that TRIM is enabled using:
fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify
and the result is '0' (it is).
Performance seems ok, but not quite as fast as I expected. Was restoring from a win7 generated system image a mistake? Am I getting optimal SSD performance?