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Yes - 9.12 GB, according to you: nothing like the 46.5 GB you claimed magically became available after you deleted that partition and then extended your C: partition into the same space (thus...

To give FUN the benefit of the doubt, he may not have appreciated that you presented a real trade-off: personal experience with improved stability vs. an interface which you prefer. Unfortunately,...

Then I may have been misled by your statement that you "don't want to loose the EFI functionality and go back to the Bios - my system boots in about ten seconds", given that you actually seem not to...

I understood that. My suggestion was that your guess might or might not be correct, and that if boot speed were as important to you as it seemed to be the way to eliminate the guesswork was to...

I've heard very good things about Mint but have yet to try it. But my impression was that Mint is the name of the distribution, and that the distribution now has at least two different standard GUIs...

Interesting discussion.



No, it would not.



Yes - though it would have to be malware that was sensitive to the possibility that you were multi-booting and was prepared to infect the other...

Hmmm. From my VERY limited experimentation I would be inclined to recommend TrueCrypt. I just tried a simple TrueCrypt 7.1a install for all users from my normal account (the one - administrator -...

While the information in both the above links may be generally useful it contains enough minor errors that one should be careful not to take it as gospel.

It protects against only casual snooping, but in many cases realistically that may be sufficient. Most of us don't have our machines (at least desktop machines) in environments where people likely...

It would be interesting to ascertain just how much EFI contributes to this speed vs. how much use of the SSD does - especially if you have the Win 8 'fast startup' option enabled (which it is by...

If you used FarClone to clone your ENTIRE hard drive to your SSD then I'm sure that bbearren is correct (I'm not familiar with UEFI systems myself).

However, your post is sufficiently ambiguous...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303661

Apologies for not being able to answer your question: I've only performed 'clean install' upgrades to Win 8 Pro, where I've formated the upgraded system during the upgrade and therefore (obviously)...

Dear me - someone here really seems to object to my pointing out that your response above clearly indicates that you did not understand the material to which you were responding. This time I didn't...

No, JazzGuyy: the problem is that Microsoft made things that people have become used to since Windows 95 harder to do - ESPECIALLY on first approach - and that it did so unnecessarily. Microsoft...

The linked knowledge base article includes a description of the Registry settings that disable Autorun/Autoplay - both on all devices and on selected specific types of devices. If you check the...

Actually, NT and its descendents have supported larger sector sizes (at least up to 4KB) for data disks (at least in the SCSI driver stack and possibly in the ATA stack as well) since the mid-1990s,...

Unless you consider yourself one of the 'naysayers', CLiNT, I'll suggest that you don't have a clue why they feel as they do in this area (and that the tenor of the conversation would improve...

My impression is that most of the emotion on the 'naysayer' side of the fence comes from being told to shut and keep their opinions to themselves, while the boosters continue to feel free to boost. ...

Your concern is legitimate and I corrected Fred on this point in a response (in http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/149514-Drive-alignment-and-solid-state-drives - perhaps he missed it)...

Dear me, I lost track of this thread before you posted the above and see it now only because I revisited it after Fred repeated his misconceptions about the importance of alignment. But better late...

While that's certainly generally correct, it may not be completely correct.

1. The MBR 32-bit data fields actually can support disks up to nearly 4 TiB in size if you make sure that the last...

I'm afraid you're wrong, CLiNT: that's not a fact (perhaps you should consult a dictionary), it's an opinion - just as much as the claim that Windows 8 IS a joke is an opinion. Everyone, of course,...

Not only (as others have noted) is the above incorrect today, but it has been mostly incorrect for well over a decade. I have successfully migrated both Win98SE and Win2K system images to new...

Depending upon just how interested you are in getting Win 8 to do what you want in this area, you might consider using InstallRite (http://www.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php?p=78545&t=4&i=1) to...