need help

mykledw

I got a cordair ssd 60GB drive that I would like to set as OS only..........

Heres the deal, windows see's it but bios does not, how do I put my OS on it and set it as boot disk if my BIOS doesnt see it that way............i'm at a loss and formated C: with all of my games to try and make this work (needed a reinstall anyway and all games are digital, but I dont want them on this drive) I cant for the life of me get my MOBO to see this drive as a boot drive..........it's E: by the way.....................HELP

Thanks!!

Atlas · 11-21-2011, 23:37 | posts: 1,329 | Location: The Netherlands

You have an e: drive in your bios? How are your drives setup in bios? SATA, AHCI, whatever?

mykledw · 11-22-2011, 00:13 | posts: 1,481 | Location: Las Vegas, New Mexico

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atlas

You have an e: drive in your bios? How are your drives setup in bios? SATA, AHCI, whatever?

No drives in bios drives......ide because they are AHCI and bios only see's the two physical drives, not the SSD but windows does...........at a loss here!

mykledw · 11-22-2011, 04:40 | posts: 1,481 | Location: Las Vegas, New Mexico

now when I try to put windows on this drive I get windows cant assign a drive letter to this drive...........aborted

HELP

Atlas · 11-22-2011, 11:53 | posts: 1,329 | Location: The Netherlands

Is you BIOS up to date?

mykledw · 11-22-2011, 14:44 | posts: 1,481 | Location: Las Vegas, New Mexico

yep everything current...windows will even let me turn it into a ready boost drive but that is as far as it goes....cant for the life of me to have bios see it, am i missing something?

thanks

att_user · 11-22-2011, 17:01 | posts: 336

Defective. Return to vendor. If you can get a Crucial m4 as substitute.

mrmonsoon · 11-22-2011, 17:28 | posts: 697

Quote:

Originally Posted by mykledw

I got a cordair ssd 60GB drive that I would like to set as OS only..........

Heres the deal, windows see's it but bios does not, how do I put my OS on it and set it as boot disk if my BIOS doesnt see it that way............i'm at a loss and formated C: with all of my games to try and make this work (needed a reinstall anyway and all games are digital, but I dont want them on this drive) I cant for the life of me get my MOBO to see this drive as a boot drive..........it's E: by the way.....................HELP

Thanks!!

Have you formatted the sdd, from what you say, i take it may not have.
(we have all made that mistake before)

control panel-administrative tools-computer management-disk management-choose drive e right click it and format it (ntfs).

NOW.....

You should be able to set the computer to boot to the ssd and load windows.

BTW, make you life easier and only hook up the ssd when load the OS.

After it is loaded and stable, you can add other hard drives...

mykledw · 11-22-2011, 17:34 | posts: 1,481 | Location: Las Vegas, New Mexico

Yep, thats what I figured... RMA it is!!

mykledw · 11-22-2011, 17:35 | posts: 1,481 | Location: Las Vegas, New Mexico

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmonsoon

Have you formatted the sdd, from what you say, i take it may not have.
(we have all made that mistake before)

control panel-administrative tools-computer management-disk management-choose drive e right click it and format it (ntfs).

NOW.....

You should be able to set the computer to boot to the ssd and load windows.

BTW, make you life easier and only hook up the ssd when load the OS.

After it is loaded and stable, you can add other hard drives...

yep, done all that, so RMA it goes, kinda usless as it is now...

mykledw · 12-05-2011, 15:41 | posts: 1,481 | Location: Las Vegas, New Mexico

Update on my thread, since most never return to say what happened...........

Drive was dead, and am now on new ssd drive (damn, why didnt I do this sooner, this rig is on FIRE, 10 seconds from power button to clickable icon!!)

Thanks for the advice of disconnecting other drives while installing windows.....was having issues till I remebered that...............

Odly enough, windows never asked me to install a previous version to check for upgrade..............but I did have to call microsoft to activate which was no big deal when I told them that I was just movin my OS from one drive to another.........

And to all those that are sceptical and are waiting to see "how it goes for others".....dont wait..............SSD is the bomb!!!!