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7/14/10 at 4:46am

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Hi,

I recently replaced my X25-V to a X25-M and wanting to install the X25-V to my laptop.
I believe by simply format the SSD, the blocks will not be wiped clean. The performance should be bad when writing to these blocks which are formated but not wiped clean. I also learned that OCZ has a wipe application for such taks but I'm not confident to try it on my intel drive.

Any confirmed/best way to "format" or restore the drive to a "clean" status for installtion?

The X25-V had been reformated about 3 times and had been trim'd since the first day.

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7/14/10 at 4:50am

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windows 7 format? should do it... no?

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7/14/10 at 4:55am

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Try a Secure Erase program like this one:

http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/20...ate-drive-ssd/

or just google for "Secure Erase SSD"

Hope that heped

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7/14/10 at 4:58am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterWar

Try a Secure Erase program like this one:

http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/20...ate-drive-ssd/

or just google for "Secure Erase SSD"

Hope that heped

Great info. Didn't know the 3.3, guess I got carried out by the 4.0 version.

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7/14/10 at 5:02am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by fshizl

windows 7 format? should do it... no?

I don't think a format will reset the mapping table and the acutal blocks will be shown as formated but acutally it would still be filled with data.

You can easily recover data from a "normal format" SSD.

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[Mushkin] Enhanced Chronos Deluxe 240GB SSD SAT...	[WesternDigital] VelociRaptor 150GB X2 Raid-0	[WesternDigital] Caviar Black 640GB X2 Raid-0	[Sony] DVD-RW AD-7260S
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[Mushkin] Enhanced Chronos Deluxe 240GB SSD SAT...	[WesternDigital] VelociRaptor 150GB X2 Raid-0	[WesternDigital] Caviar Black 640GB X2 Raid-0	[Sony] DVD-RW AD-7260S
Cooling	OS	Monitor	Keyboard
[Corsair] Hydro Series H100i HP SP120 4Fans Pus...	[Microsoft] Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1	[BenQ] 3X E2420HD 24" 5760X1080 Eyefinity	[OCZ] Alchemy Elixir Gaming Keyboard
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7/15/10 at 8:52am

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SDelete Utility from SysInternals:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897443.aspx

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