OK,
I absolutely love my M5 481T. First I bought one for my Wife when her old laptop died, after she had hers for about a week, I decided that I had to have one as well. The stock 500gb HD in it is great for holding lots of info for her but I used lots of travel drives and don't really store a lot on my laptop directly.
I decided that I wanted to see what all the fuss was about with SSD drives so I found a good deal on a 256GB SSD, took a deep deep breath, opened up my M5 and swapped out drives. I went with a clean install of Windows 7 and it is INSANELY FAST. If I'm not paying attention on boot up, I will miss any chance to get to the boot menu. From power button to full usability averages 22 seconds now. Not instantaneous but darned quick and I really love the results. (If you decide to do anything like this, know that you will be voiding your warranty and you will have to pull the exterior case off of the SSD drive and fab a replacement out of foil that is thin enough to fit.)
All of that yammering being what it is, my question is actually about what I can do with the 16GB internal SSD that is still here, shows up on my My Computer, but is inaccessible from my Boot Menu. I'd love to have it as a boot drive but if that won't work, I'd just as soon try and convert it to a 16gb BOOST Memory to help speed my system up even more.
I'm OK with playing with the hardware but am a numbskull on the software side. (Think Mouth Breathing Knuckle Dragger)
I was about to format that drive but decided to post here first just to make sure I don't' kill my system when I do.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Doc
