Booting from "J" drive/partition on OCZ Vertex 3 SSD

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Please don't ask how it happened, but I accidently put a new partition on my C drive (an OCZ Vertex 3). After re-starting Windows 7 Pro (64bit) realized a problem and apparently moved the boot files onto this new partition. The J drive (size 46 MB) is now labelled "System Partition" and the C drive (size 103 MB with 63GB unused) "Windows Boot Disk".

Things are running OK, but I'd like to get back to the one partition with the C drive. I have Easus Partition Master and when I try to merge the partitions the message is "System Partition or Boot Partition only can be set as destination."

How do I get back to just the C drive?

Thanks for any help.

Tom C
 
Solution
iaSTor is GOOD (Intels equivalant of msahci)
Partition alignment shows ALIGNED ( shows OK)


But I think your performance is LOW
There is a NEWER firmware revision - Ver 2.22. (2.15 is an older FW)

Also check your MB Bios ver, If old update it also. Check MB manuf website (support - downloads)
http://www.ocztechnology.com/ssd_tools/SandForce_Based/
My M4
nbq5xj.jpg


NOTE. Vertex 3 uses the Sandforce 22xx controller which means that to get advertized Sequencial performance you need to run ATTO (a HDD Benchmark) that uses data that is readily compressable - NOT REAL WORLD!!!
HOWEVER, SSDs do NOT like to have benchmarks run frequently.

ADDED with SSD Plus HDD Plus DVD Drive
SSD = C
HDD = D ( In fact I make...
Leave it, just change drive letters.
The system partition should be on the SSD (normaly a tiny 100 mb partition).

I would down load and open AS SSD (don't need to run the Benchmark). Look at the upper left for driver and alignment.
As long as the driver does NOT show pcide BAD, and
partition alignment is OK - Then you are good.
If either is not correct, then FIX.
 

twcinnh

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Something wrong. I can't get the english download and what I have downloaded (German) seems incomplete. Very confusing pages, probably because I don't read German.

I tried turning off my firewall, but nothing yet.

Tom C
 

twcinnh

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OK, Googling finally brought me to a download (not on the author's site) of the current, and English, version.

Here are the screenshots:
http://ridma.com/tomshardware/english/as-ssd-bench.png
http://ridma.com/tomshardware/english/as-copy-bench.png
http://ridma.com/tomshardware/english/as-compr-bench.png

As long as the driver does NOT show pcide BAD, and
partition alignment is OK - Then you are good.
If either is not correct, then FIX.

Not sure where I can get the answer to these questions.

But, is it possible to return everything to 1 C drive, or is it better just keeping a C drive with the boot files?

Tom C
 
iaSTor is GOOD (Intels equivalant of msahci)
Partition alignment shows ALIGNED ( shows OK)


But I think your performance is LOW
There is a NEWER firmware revision - Ver 2.22. (2.15 is an older FW)

Also check your MB Bios ver, If old update it also. Check MB manuf website (support - downloads)
http://www.ocztechnology.com/ssd_tools/SandForce_Based/
My M4
nbq5xj.jpg


NOTE. Vertex 3 uses the Sandforce 22xx controller which means that to get advertized Sequencial performance you need to run ATTO (a HDD Benchmark) that uses data that is readily compressable - NOT REAL WORLD!!!
HOWEVER, SSDs do NOT like to have benchmarks run frequently.

ADDED with SSD Plus HDD Plus DVD Drive
SSD = C
HDD = D ( In fact I make my HDD D & E normally)
DVD = E (or what ever follows HDD(s)

IF System partition Shows up with a Drive letter, I just move it out of the way like Drive M
 
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twcinnh

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Is System Partition and System Reserved the same thing? Or, can I move this onto another drive?

The C drive label is labelled "Windows Boot Disk" but the contents of the J drive (System Reserved partition), which is also on the OCZ disk contains a directory called "Boot".

Sorry if I'm new at this.

Tom C
 

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