macrium reflect free restore image question ?

[sosolola]

I created an image for my windows 10 with macrium reflect free
now I want to restore that image because I got infected and got so many errors
do I need first to format my ssd and manualy delete all parttions or even secure erase it
before restore the image for best ssd performance ?

 

[mcnumpty23]

no just restore the image

 

[boosted1g]

Just restore the image.

TRIM is the garbage collection for SSD drives and it marks the empty data bit as a "new bit" to be written to.
Formatting does absolutely nothing for this process, and secure erase makes this much worse as it makes empty bits look like recently written to bits and slows everything down for a couple weeks until TRIM can fix it.

By just restoring the image you will restore the data and you will restore the proper TRIM values