[boganslaw]

Well, I did after downloading and confirming the correct hash, I did aclean install after deletion of all available partitions and then installed W7 7127 (this was vlited following rickatnights guide rickatnight11.com » Blog Archive » Install Windows 7 on Dell Mini 9 (USB) ) on the 21st of May and have no problems...yet.

edit: I did none of the SSD tweaks or optimisations, as every time I tried them even in Win XP they gave flakely performance, has anyone that experienced problems also tweaked the windows settings for SSD's ?

[MoInSTL]

So far there have been 27 votes cast. Bumping this up as I am going to close the poll in the next few days.

Based on the votes so far, it appears SSD & HDD failures may be coincidental.

[mostro]

Hey MoInSTL,

If you made another poll, of whether this poll should get closed or stay open, I'd vote "Stay open"

I think you should leave it going longer and let the votes continue to count. I'm certain a lot more people will be trying this in the coming weeks as it gains steam in the media.

[MoInSTL]

Originally Posted by mostro

Hey MoInSTL,

If you made another poll, of whether this poll should get closed or stay open, I'd vote "Stay open"

I think you should leave it going longer and let the votes continue to count. I'm certain a lot more people will be trying this in the coming weeks as it gains steam in the media.

Well since you put it like that, I'll leave it open.

[adamgs]

I think the failures are purely coincidental.

Ive loaded 7000, 7057 twice and now 7100 and all have been fine. Ive got the standard 16gb drive.

[MoInSTL]

Originally Posted by adderz91

I think the failures are purely coincidental.

Ive loaded 7000, 7057 twice and now 7100 and all have been fine. Ive got the standard 16gb drive.

It appears to be the case, but several people who posted about SSD issues in other threads did not vote.

[orb987]

I have a hard time believing that an OS install could kill a hard drive.

But, I did a fresh full install of Win 7 RC on my new A90 2 days ago and the SSD failed on the first reboot. Dell diags reported bad drive so they overnighted me a new SSD. Gonna try OSX on the new one.

So I'm voting that it killed mine.

[zrtom]

Well, after literally dozens of Windows 7 installs since last November on 2.5" & 3.5" HDDs, 2.5" SSDs and PCI-e SSDs, I've had no problems...................
............until yesterday.
An upgrade experiment from 7100 to 7137 (desktop) left both the OS partition and my data partition "not accessible." It would boot (sort of) but didn't work right. The worst part was losing 200 GB of data on my data partition. The data was there, I just couldn't access it. Thankfully, I was able to copy it over to another HDD using a live Linux distro.

7137 inc soonish - Page 22 - Windows 7 Forums

[Snagtooth]

Looks like you've talked me out of win7 dual boot for now. Not taking a chance on my smoothly running OSX runcore!

[MoInSTL]

Originally Posted by zrtom

Well, after literally dozens of Windows 7 installs since last November on 2.5" & 3.5" HDDs, 2.5" SSDs and PCI-e SSDs, I've had no problems...................
............until yesterday.
An upgrade experiment from 7100 to 7137 (desktop) left both the OS partition and my data partition "not accessible." It would boot (sort of) but didn't work right. The worst part was losing 200 GB of data on my data partition. The data was there, I just couldn't access it. Thankfully, I was able to copy it over to another HDD using a live Linux distro.

7137 inc soonish - Page 22 - Windows 7 Forums

Did the drive show up as unallocated?