[boganslaw]

Originally Posted by ApplicationError

Um, good questions.

I just downloaded the Windows 7 Beta image from Microsoft and burnt a DVD with it.

I didn't do any SSD tweaks, um... was I supposed to? Now I feel like a foolio.

there is no HAVE to do tweaks for the SSD in Win7, just trying to naildown what happens since what happened to your SSD was very similar to MoInSTL problem.

I was supecting it might be due to vliting the win7 install, but it appears to not be the case.

[ApplicationError]

Originally Posted by boganslaw

there is no HAVE to do tweaks for the SSD in Win7, just trying to naildown what happens since what happened to your SSD was very similar to MoInSTL problem.

I was suspecting it might be due to vliting the win7 install, but it appears to not be the case.

Ah, I see. It is.... was a 32 gig SSD and it had about 6 gigs left after the install.

[Dreizehn]

After looking through the posts from this thread.. it looks like the similarities are:

Win7100+
SSD (Trim not supported)
Dell Mini 9/A90

Which makes me wonder, maybe something in Win7, TRIM, and PATA are the cause of this?

From what I've read about SSDs and how they work, they have to clear large groups of files at once to be able to reuse the space.
Read AnandTech: The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ for more info.

I wonder if Win7 is not recognizing that TRIM doesn't work on these harddrives, and erases some of the basic information about the SSD (onboard drivers or so), and unable to write them back, thus causing these problems. Thoughts?

[holmes4]

I've had multiple installs of Win7 on my Mini 9 without problems, but as I noted, a desktop drive failed. But since then (with a different disk) I reinstalled it was fine. Very puzzling.

[Dreizehn]

Originally Posted by holmes4

I've had multiple installs of Win7 on my Mini 9 without problems, but as I noted, a desktop drive failed. But since then (with a different disk) I reinstalled it was fine. Very puzzling.

Is the desktop a SSD or HDD?

[holmes4]

Desktop is HDD.

[TheDoctah]

I don't think this problem is isolated to SSD's its a lot more common than people are willing to admit.

My colleague had his 500gig desktop drive experience similar symptoms people listed in this thread after installing Win7.

Install went fine, and everything seemed to be working but he couldnt access any of his data on a 2nd partition...eventually the Win7 partition started giving problems and he lost it all.

I have a feeling Win7 is accessing the boot sector on the drives and messing with it in some scenarios.

This thread is not a large sample by any means, but 11% failure rate is pretty high!

[mfruit]

Can I change my vote? Installed Win7 about 2 months ago and my SSD died yesterday night. I had just installed Firefox 3.5 and the system locked so I thought that it was a buggy release but when I rebooted, I got the dreaded "PXE-E61: Media test failure.... No operating system found." error.

Am now on the phone with Dell support to see if they can ship me a replacement SSD. Ugh.

[holmes4]

I posted a question about this at sevenforums, looking to see if this was a problem others had seen outside the MDM community. Zero responses.

[Offroadie]

I looked at issues at sevenforums too and didn't see anything. Odd.