SSD Won't show up in the Win7 setup

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LastVampyer

LastVampyer

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Hey guys,

I was upgrading a friends SSD earlier - plugged it all in and everything, it showed up in the bios but for some reason it won't show up in the Win7 setup. It just says that there are no drives installed.

Tried a lot of stuff already:

AHCI, IDE and Disabled mode
Formatting in Disk Management (to NTFS)
Changed SATA ports
Removed all other storage devices

The SSD used to be in RAID 0 with another identical drive but it has been formatted and RAID has been disabled in the bios.

Any advice? I'm stumped.
 
Solution
RetiredChief
It is recommended that when you want to "break" a Raid set-up that you use the "Raid" set-up to first Break the raid strip. Your problem is that the bios still detects the drive as a raided drive.

You might try, with all partitions deleted a secure erease.
To delete ALL partitions use the diskpart command with switch Clean.
Added:

From start enter Diskpart in search box.
Will open a dos prompt and you will see DISKPART>

Type the following:
List Disk This will display all drives attached, Look for the Number of the drive you want to work with.
Select Disk=n n equals the number found from list disk ONLY caution is the next command will execute on the selected disk - select wrong disk and it will delete all...
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It is recommended that when you want to "break" a Raid set-up that you use the "Raid" set-up to first Break the raid strip. Your problem is that the bios still detects the drive as a raided drive.

You might try, with all partitions deleted a secure erease.
To delete ALL partitions use the diskpart command with switch Clean.
Added:

From start enter Diskpart in search box.
Will open a dos prompt and you will see DISKPART>

Type the following:
List Disk This will display all drives attached, Look for the Number of the drive you want to work with.
Select Disk=n n equals the number found from list disk ONLY caution is the next command will execute on the selected disk - select wrong disk and it will delete all partitions on that disk.
Clean or use Clean all see below Clean all may delete all partitions AND effectively do a secure erease.
Done so exit

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Removes any and all partition or volume formatting from the disk with focus. On master boot record (MBR) disks, only the MBR partitioning information and hidden sector information are overwritten. On GUID partition table (GPT) disks, the GPT partitioning information, including the Protective MBR, is overwritten; there is no hidden sector information.

all

Specifies that each and every sector on the disk is zeroed, which completely deletes all data contained on the disk.
End quote
Ref: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766465(v=ws.10).aspx
 
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RetiredChief

RetiredChief

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If you want to be a little cautious, you can disconnect all drives from the system except the drive you want to wok with, then:

"In the BIOS set the boot order to boot first from the CD/DVD Drive, insert the Windows 7 instalation DVD and restart the PC, at the first black/screen hit the space bar for the "Press any key ... " prompt, then at the "Language" screen hold the "Shift" key and hit the F10 hot-key to open a command window." at the dos screen then type diskpart.

Probably do not need to go to bios as the Win 7 disk would be the oly bootable drive, or just hit the hot key durning post that brings up a boot menu - ie on my gigabyte MB it is F12 and on my Asrock (Think it's the same as Asus) it is F11. then select the DVD drive.
 
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