Ocz octane s3 won't boot windows 8

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Seguinchris

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Hey guys,

So I bought an acer v7 482PG-6662 it's comes with an 24gb ssd and a 500gb hdd. Windows 8 came installed on the 500gb so I decided to put in my ocz octane s3 256gb inside. Now when i installed windows 8.1 on my ssd when it boots up for the first time after installation (before you set up profile) it gives me this error "0xc0000225" which means that windows can't find my primary volume or partition. When I troubleshoot it through cmd in the installation USB. I try to list the volume to make my ssd the primary but it doesn't appear... When I boot and press f12 to enter boot menu the my ocz octane doesn't appear, but it appeared when I had installed the os on it .

I've also updated the bios .

So my question is how do you make my computer recognize my ssd on boot?

Additional information: I have in the past used this ssd on a MacBook Pro which I had to upgrade the firmware and rearrange the boot sequence in order for it to work. I have also tried installing windows 8.1 on the 24gb ssd which worked but after drives and updates I only had 20mb left. So this is why I'm trying to install the os on my bigger ssd.

Thanks!
Chris
 
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ubercake
Did you do a clean install of Windows and reformat all the disks? Or did you clone the former boot drive to the 256GB?

If you're going with a clean install, I'd install Windows with only the 256GB connected, make sure it boots that way and then hook up the 500GB, make sure that works, and then hook up the 24GB.

I actually think the only possible use of such a small SSD (24GB) would be for HDD fast disk caching or maybe for use in something like a chromebook.
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Some motherboards have an SSD disk-caching function and a sata port reserved just for that purpose when SSD disk-caching is turned on in the BIOS. Do you happen to know if your 256GB SSD is connected to such a port and is SSD disk-caching turned on?
 
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Thanks ubercake for the fast reply, i checked the bios and cant seem to find any options about disk caching. Would maybe removing the 24GB SSD work?
 
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Did you do a clean install of Windows and reformat all the disks? Or did you clone the former boot drive to the 256GB?

If you're going with a clean install, I'd install Windows with only the 256GB connected, make sure it boots that way and then hook up the 500GB, make sure that works, and then hook up the 24GB.

I actually think the only possible use of such a small SSD (24GB) would be for HDD fast disk caching or maybe for use in something like a chromebook.
 
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