MB doesn't show PCI SSD as drive

Guest · May 13, 2013

I have installed a PCI-SSD and want to use it as my boot C drive, my MB says it will accpt a PCI for boot, & I currently have a sata ssd as my C drive.
Using Win7 the PCI doesn't show as a drive in "my Computer" but if I go into the device mngr "dskdrives" it does show up. It doesn't show up in the bios under drives or boot preferences.
If I reconfigure and reinstall win7 with just the pci ssd will it automatically install or do have to assign a drive leter to the PCI card and how?

Peter Norman · May 13, 2013

IF you reinstall from scratch, you may need the driver files for the pci SSD on a usb. Are you able to right click the drive whilst in device manager and create a new partition table/partition?

Paull Cudak · May 13, 2013

Peter Norman :

Rt click doesn't show anything but standard commands: update drives, disable, uninstall, scan, properties same as it is with all the others. None of them show that cmmand

rgd1101 · May 13, 2013

motherboard make and model?

Peter Norman · May 13, 2013

sorry i meant in disk management. if you can try to format it using quick format

mad-max79 · May 13, 2013

You need to install the drivers and then to format the drive.
If you want to install from scratch you need a driver for the device. You need to load them in the step where you can choose your target drive.

Paull Cudak · May 13, 2013

rgd1101 :

Asus P6T6WS Revolution

Paull Cudak · May 13, 2013

Peter Norman :

Sorry I forgot about that myself. Right now there is no letter assigned and can do so it also will allow me to allocate space as it's currently unallocated 223.58 (240G)

popatim · May 13, 2013

During win7 install you need to press F6 "install additional drivers" (that should have been supplied with the pci-ssd when you got it) when you are on the Where to install windows screen.

Paull Cudak · May 17, 2013

popatim :

Currently when I boot the first line shows the pci ssd card driver, ( maybe not in this order afterwards ) it shows chipset for external drives sas raid etc (if available) and other drives ssd & dvd & other externals if plugged in.
Just wondering if it currently shows the PCI SSD card in the bios "first", if I go into to dsk mngt and reassign the pci ssd card with a letter C then shut down remove the old c drive and start loading the OS wouldn't that work?
I understand needing the drivers in the bios if start from scratch but if they are in the bios already and show on the first line of the current set up would I really need to reload the drivers?

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