Alan_B
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When you Securely Erase your SSD you should shut down your computer and take a coffee break before you power up and start writing to the SSD.
OCZ recommend a full shut-down before power-up.
When I complained about a shrinking partition after a secure erase,
experienced users on the OCZ User forum advised
a few seconds waiting whilst shut-down to allow the SSD firmware to initiate whatever needs initiating before power up.I now fear that if I do not wait long enough a worse fate than shrinking partitions may befall me.
Rather than waiting a few seconds I am taking a coffee break
Different versions of SSD and different manufacturers may have different requirements.
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One thing I want to add is always try to maintain 20-25% free space. Don't pack it full.
I have learnt the hard way that some free space is better spent as UNALLOCATED SPACE following the last partition on the SSD.
I understand that Unallocated Space is just as good as free space within the partition(s) so far as "TRIM ... all that good stuff".
I regret a default Windows 7 installation that allocated all the space available on my SSD because :-
I use Macrium Reflect partition image backup and when things go wrong it only takes a few minutes to restore the previous normality,
and after restoring I can NORMALLY continue to use SMALL Incremental and Differential backups based on the same original LARGE Full image backup.
BUT
the last time I did such a restore I first of all followed recommendations to securely erase the entire SSD to give it a clean start,
after which everything worked perfectly UNTIL I made the next small Differential Backup - and that failed and then created a new LARGE Full image backup,
which consumes more space on my archives.
The reason it failed was that when I ran the OCZ software to erase their SSD, there was also a firmware update,
and my 60 GB SSD shrunk by a couple of MB, so when Macrium restored my backup it had to fit a 2 MB smaller partition,
and when I wanted a Differential backup Macrium needed to access a FULL image that was the same size as what I had been reduced to.
It is the SSD firmware that determines the percentage of the Flash Cells that excluded from space available partitions,
and I guess the latest firmware excluded a little bit more - though OCZ deny that it was the fault of their firmware.
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Yes - with fear and trepidation
A duplicate file is SOMETIMES redundant and it will never be missed if you remove it,
but sometimes removal leads to disaster.
It is your responsibility to either :-
determine whether it is safe to delete a duplicate;
or have a stringent backup / recovery procedure to restore normality after disaster;
or have Windows Installation discs at the ready.
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I'm not sure why you seem so mad at my request, i did post in the wrong forums etc . mybad.
I was not mad at you,
I was trying to protect you from the folly of defragging your SSD,
You had already started this topic in the wrong sub-forum so I saw no indication that you knew any better than to defrag your SSD.
I was also warning off any naive user or searcher on the Internet who might be encouraged to think that Defraggler was intended for his SSD.
N.B.
I do not see any particular benefit with Win8 from initiating TRIM with a right click on your SSD,
since my understanding is that by default Win8 will :-
Automatically run what it calls a "Defrag" that is NOT a defrag as we know it, but actually does what we know as a TRIM,
and also, just like Win7, automatically initiates TRIM when files have been deleted ;
I think you are asking Defraggler or CCleaner to fix something that, so far as I know, is not broken on Windows 7 and onwards.
If you know some aspect of TRIM that is broken and needs fixing by third party software then please explain what it is.
P.S.
I am sorry but the link you provided only offers software that is available as a Trial WITHOUT TRIM ENHANCEMENT,
OR alternatively includes Trim Enhancement after purchase of a license,
Nowhere do I see any indication of how it might benefit Windows 8.
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The PF relocation had no part in the cause of the disaster.
The temporary loss of 30% of my free space,
and the permanent loss of 1 Program Erase Cycle to 14% of the Flash cells in my SSD,
was nothing but an irritation.
Now that I have one of my two HDD back in service and that again holds an 8 GB Pagefile.sys,
I am retaining the tiny 16 MB PF to forestall future irritations.
The fundamental cause of disaster is Microsoft incompetence in the numbering of Discs connected via SATA,
and as a result Windows "fixed" the complex GUID of my GPT by changing it to a simple hexadecimal number that exactly matched the Disc ID of my main MBR HDD,
and then decided that two off discs with the same ID was not allowed so it knocked off-line my MBR HDD,
after which the only accessible HDD was the original GPT HDD which was now filled with RAW data because Windows cannot read a GPT/MBR hybrid.
I had no problem regaining access to the original MBR HDD and all its contents are intact.
That only took a few minutes.
After 3 months I am still evaluating Data Recovery software that can handle Raw Data on a GPT disc that has lost its partitions.
The primary lesson I have learnt is NEVER have a mix of MBR and GPT discs - Windows will trash them without limit.
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True, but does defragging have relevance to a Folder Entry ?
I noticed years ago that when Windows booted up then if the External USB drive was connected it took longer to reach the stage at which I could log in,
and that after logging in I could do a directory listing of the external drive without any USB delays or external drive LED flashing,
which tells me that Folder Entries are only read once on start-up and thereafter the information is held in and retrieved from RAM.
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Warning.
I moved the Pagefile and got bit in the butt.
Windows got confused over the SATA interfaces and knocked "offline" the Samsung HDD which was holding my relocated 8 GB pagefile,
and as a result Windows decided to create a new Pagefile and it gobbled up an 8 GB slice of my SSD.
I reduced that to 16 MegaByte and Windows reluctantly rebooted with that.
15 MB was too small on my 64 bit system - but probably 8 MB would be acceptable on a 32 bit system.
I have now restored an 8 GB pagefile on the Samsung HDD,
and am keeping 16 MB pagefile on the OCZ SSD to prevent losing another 8 GB chunk the next time Windows kills Samsung.
I would like to think that Windows will NOT write to the 16 MB Pagefile until the 8 GB Pagefile is either full or missing due to another Windows Whoopsie,
I don't trust Windows, and Windows don't like me.
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We seem to have different opinions upon what Folder Entries contain.
You have a folder that contains at least is 98 MB
The Folder Entry holds NONE of that 98 MB
All it holds is data about that 98 MB of data,
specifically it lists names and sizes and date/time stamps of files and SubFolders.
When you move a 10 GB file from one folder to another you do not perform 10 GB of writing plus 10 GB of deleting,
you just re-write a few kB within the directory structure.
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Did you take notice of this point in Keatah's well reasoned dissertation
Defragging works on mechanical disks for a number of reasons, there is latency stemming from rotational movements and head seek movements. It to everyone's and everything's advantage to pack the data close in and have it all organized. Some of the more advanced defraggers will place files in that which they are loaded. Thus eliminating head movements for groups of files. All the drive has to do is wait for the data to rotate around and under the heads. The heads only move when the entire track has been sequentially read. A mechanical disk benefits from an advanced defragmenter.How many r.p.m. does you card rotate at ?
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@Andavari: Right. And that FAT32 issue is precisely why the Piriform need to look into this problem.
Are you saying that Keatah's arguments against defragging are ONLY applicable to NTFS but NOT to FAT32 ?
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+1 for Office ALAN
and another rabbit trails is started
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It's probably older than some of you guys, but it still works perfectly and the battery (original) still lasts for a couple of weeks. How many of you can say that?
A survey of different phone models from guys of battery life could be useful
A similar survey from GALS might prove an interesting contrast
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I cannot resist pointing out that although there were a few sweeping comments such as
Yes, many other users have reported problemsThe only specific comment was
You may not of had a problem before by using Ccleaner, but this forum and the MozillaZine fora are filled with examples of bad results using Ccleaner with Firefox 4+ versions. Firefox 4.0 was when the *.sqlite databases can into wide spread use in Firefox.It seems plausible that "many other users have reported problems" could refer to the total quantity of Firefox versions in the chaotic rush from version 4 through to version 20.1.
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You guys think that Wise Care might recover things removed by CCleaner?
I know nothing about Wise Care other than you use it to do stuff on your P.C. and no one here is suggestion that it is anything but a file/registry deleter.
On that basis this particular guy thinks you have totally misunderstood Wise Care's capability.
Wise Care, like ALL system cleanup utilities, including CCleaner itself,
has the capability of misjudging which Windows files are required for certain operations that you expect to be performed.
It is quite possible that Wise Care sees no need for Piriform Registry keys.
It is quite possible that Wise Care sees no need for certain Windows files that are needed for Windows to completely execute the instructions issued by CCleaner.
Wise Care may be less adventurous in its cleaning of XP than it is with Windows 7 and as a result CCleaner is able to do its job.
At the end of the day the only solution might be to totally reinstall Windows 7 and exclude the installation or use of Wise Care.
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Why not.
Different PC but the same complication of Wise Care.
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So you prefer to make Piriform developer waste their precious time re-exploring the possibilities that have already been explored in the Firefox forums.
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Clouds will fall out of the sky if they have to carry the dead weight of Adobe Bloat.
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I copied the text and pasted into Notepad.exe,
BUT when I saved as a file I was told that using default ANSI setting there would be errors,
and to avoid data loss I should choose one of the Unicode settings.
I strongly suspect that there were numerous transitions and data-loss due to ANSI/Unicode/Unicode BigEndian/UTF-8 transitions in many stages.
e.g. between the Recuva'ed file and what the O.P read into a text editor and then pasted into this topic and eventually rendered in my browser and then copied and pasted into my Notepad text file.
and this ignores any peculiarities with the forum software.
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I think Chkdsk always tells me it will launch on restart.
Could CHkdsk only respond to an administrator and ignore user requests ?
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compare files or bone
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Files I understand - bone is something else
I really think that your requirements are already FULLY SATISFIED.
I have easily unticked every default box for every drive,
and used the ADD button to add boxes for I:\OCZ\*.mrimg and R:\LS-3_1_1\RecoveredData\_E_GPT_E\*.mrimg
This is also very important if you want to check if there are two repeated system files within a program that are causing any damage.What sort of damage do you expect as a result of duplicated system files.
I can be quite paranoid if I put my mind to it but that is something that never occurred to me
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Help me please Recuva stop scan 25% no memory capacity, my sistem w7 ultimate 32 bits and not found files http://prntscr.com/13ssad
Please do not hijack someone else's bug-report topic with your problem.
Start your own topic witha suitable title in the discussion forum.
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This is what I get, sure doesn't mean anything to me,
I do not know what you did, but I do not see how my suggestion could produce the output you have produced.
My suggestion does NOT modify the original file,
it only reads the input file and produces an output file with a hex dump output that is about twice the size of the original.
My very first test was NOT upon the RTF file TEST.RTF but on the executable HEXDUMP.EXE itself, and it worked as expected.
I am therefore confident that no matter how corrupt the input file may be, and no matter what type (e.g. RTF, PDF, DOC, etc etc),
the output file has to be in the format that I posted.
QUESTIONS :-
Did you use the Windows text editor Notepad.exe or something else to create the file HEXIT.BAT,
AND did it contain nothing other than the single line :-
hexdump -n TEST.RTF | more > TEST.LST
What were the names and sizes of the file you had recovered and the file produced with my suggestion ?
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but i don't think based on windows white papers on the "PCA" that it has any business being listed for cleanout ....
Actually I was giving a generalised answer to the information request from "frozenreads", and I was not addressing your issue.
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PaleMoon is based on the same Gecko engine as Firefox and uses the same Addons etc,
but the Palemoon developer provides a welcome relief from the insane Mozilla habit of fixing and thus breaking what used to work.
I have used Palemoon for several years and it always rendered Gmail the same way,
When Firefox seemed to be unreadable every other day I removed it as a waste of space.
You might be interested in reactions on their forum to recent download manager problems.
http://forum.palemoon.org/index.php
It might be worth trying Palemoon yourself - it installs on a different path without affecting Firefox.
It is available as both Portable and Installed.
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No problem.
When I lost the use of both my HDD's that took out %TEMP% as well as Pagefile.sys,
and Windows immediately created a new %TEMP% in the default location on C:\.
You are more likely to have problems the old software drivers being incompatible for the new hardware.