new mini SSD in ultrabook not recognised

jolinda

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I have a chinese apple air look alike.The SSD malfunctioned and I am trying to do a fresh install of win 7.The SSD is not showing up in bios and win7 install is asking for a driver to recognize it.It has a intel cedar trail processor.
 
Solution
If its asking for a driver its because youre using a USB 3 port to install Win7. Use a USB 2 port. If its only got USB 3 ports you need USB 3 drivers
if the ssd not in the bios it could be the ssd bricked itself. if you can plug the ssd into a desktop trty running the ssd tools from the vendor web page and firmware update. if they dont see the drive then the drive may have died. if the drive works in another pc then you may have bent pin or a logic board issue with your laptop.
 

angelice

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You can find them on Ebay and the like (Used usually) If you can tell us what size you are looking for we might be able to lead you to a good one. (I'm assuming you would prefer new however due to the fact that they are old tech they may be hard to find new.)
 

jolinda

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Product Features
128 GB capacity
A19 nm MLC NAND flash
mSATA module
Advanced Power Management (APM)
Deterministic Zeroing TRIM supported
NCQ (Native Command Queuing ) function

this is the specs for the ssd I bought to replace the faulty one.
 

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