Hi, I have an old i7 920, 24GB RAM (too much I know but using old machine), 1 TB Samsung SSD with one NTFS partition, AIW PCI 7500 card, Turtle Beach Sound Card with sound attached internally to ATI card. In addition, a BV10 I haven't tried out yet.
I bought a sealed old CD of Windows XP2 (2002 edition), used it to format the SSD (had to slipstream the SATA drivers) and now have all of the software and AIW drivers and utilities installed.
It captures perfectly to that SSD as a test but then I got into reading bout how Windows XP misaligns the partitions on newer hard drives when formatting and could lead to a performance hit or errors.
Also, it is my understanding that Windows XP lacks a TRIM function that cleans up the SSD of deleted data and I shouldn't use a SSD for Win XP SP2. I turned off defragmenting and the other recommended things like indexing as suggested on some forums.
My plan was to get another SSD to capture but have read that it is just best to have everything on HDDs.
I have already activated Windows.
The questions are:
1. Can I keep the system OS on the SSD if I don't plan on installing anything else on the system SSD?
2. Can I install Acronis to that Win XP SP2 SSD to fix the misalignment/sector size issues and MBR compatibility?
3. Do I take that disk out, and use my other modern fully upgraded Win10 computer to fix the SSD with Acronis?
4. Do I clone the Win XP2 installation since it has already been activated on this SSD it to a HDD with Acronis with proper XP compatibility using my Win 10 machine?
5. Do I just start all over again, properly formatting a new HDD on my Win 10 computer with Acronis, then install XP2 again slipstreaming the drivers for SATA again? Not sure what I have to do about the re-activation. The first time I had to phone a number - perhaps I have to do that again?
Since capture is working perfectly well at the moment, I just want to buy a new compatible SATA HDD (which I assume has to be formatted from another computer with Acronis to be XP compatible given the different sector sizes/alignment/MBR). Is that possible?
The terminology is a bit overwhelming and no doubt I have much of it wrong. I know I shouldn't be using SSDs or using Windows XP SP2 to format the SSD but learned of it afterward.
Sorry to be a newbie. I have read a lot of posts here and on XP2 install guides.
Is anyone willing to assist me on what to do?
The easiest, I suppose, is starting anew with a regular HDD and making sure it is somehow formatted how Win XP SP2 wants it, using a program like Acronis on my Windows 10 machine and then putting back into the old computer?
Honestly I am just tempted to add a HDD, format with Win XP SP2, capture my tapes and hopefully nothing goes wrong.
Any opinions?
Thanks for reading if you got this far.
My apologies if we are covering the same topic too many times, I just want to clarify given that I finally got a working set of drivers to work with the AIW and the video looks beautiful and seems to be capturing correctly with
VirtualDub.