Hello Toms Hardware, Thought I'd give this website a go since I have literally searched everywhere for answers and tried to find one. Still nothing.
My Computer Specs:
I recently purchased a SSD off amazon, the samsung evo 850 250GB SSD
I have it plugged into the computer via usb 3.0 at the moment, And windows has configured the drive and it works perfectly fine to put files onto etc.
But when I boot from my Windows7 Flash drive to install Windows7 to the SSD it doesn't even show up. The bios finds it just find, in fact its in the boot options, but he'll can't boot to a blank drive.
I have pressed shift F10 at the windows7 install home, and tried disk part, list disk. it doesn't even show up. Just the USB drive and my main HDD installed in the computer shows up.
Also, AHCI or whatever is needed to read SSD's is already enabled automatically to my Mobo.
Also. Is there a driver I can load in windows 7 installer that will find the SSD?
I don't want to install the SSD all the way into the laptop yet since its a bit complicated, and want to make sure it'll boot before I put it in. Unless this is the only way for it to go?
It would take a large ammount of time to put in, and if doesn't work I'd be really dissapointed. And then to put back in my other 1tb HDD would be a pain.
I'm just lost, and can't find any answers. Sum it up, windows7 installer won't find my SSD attached to my computer. No matter what format I do, or whatever. I even plugged in the optional power cord to the SSD enclosure.
Don't mind the 2 seagate HDD's I'm just making backups still as one of my 2TB hdd went to RAW somehow and windows kept asking me to format it, I had to manually recover my data (6 hours to find, 6 hours to copy) eeeughhh was a pain! So I bought an extra 1tb hdd to store my important data, and won't mess with that.
Thanks for your time
Regards, Zeimten
My Computer Specs:
I recently purchased a SSD off amazon, the samsung evo 850 250GB SSD
I have it plugged into the computer via usb 3.0 at the moment, And windows has configured the drive and it works perfectly fine to put files onto etc.
But when I boot from my Windows7 Flash drive to install Windows7 to the SSD it doesn't even show up. The bios finds it just find, in fact its in the boot options, but he'll can't boot to a blank drive.
I have pressed shift F10 at the windows7 install home, and tried disk part, list disk. it doesn't even show up. Just the USB drive and my main HDD installed in the computer shows up.
Also, AHCI or whatever is needed to read SSD's is already enabled automatically to my Mobo.
Also. Is there a driver I can load in windows 7 installer that will find the SSD?
I don't want to install the SSD all the way into the laptop yet since its a bit complicated, and want to make sure it'll boot before I put it in. Unless this is the only way for it to go?
It would take a large ammount of time to put in, and if doesn't work I'd be really dissapointed. And then to put back in my other 1tb HDD would be a pain.
I'm just lost, and can't find any answers. Sum it up, windows7 installer won't find my SSD attached to my computer. No matter what format I do, or whatever. I even plugged in the optional power cord to the SSD enclosure.
Don't mind the 2 seagate HDD's I'm just making backups still as one of my 2TB hdd went to RAW somehow and windows kept asking me to format it, I had to manually recover my data (6 hours to find, 6 hours to copy) eeeughhh was a pain! So I bought an extra 1tb hdd to store my important data, and won't mess with that.
Thanks for your time
Regards, Zeimten
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