Hi, I just bought a new computer 6 hours ago and have been trying to fix this for a while.
I started off trying to install a Windows 7 to no avail. I found a Windows 7 randomly lying in a USB drive that was lying around that I wanted to use, and tried it. The installation worked until the 3rd step, where it couldn't locate my 1TB HDD and 120gb SSD.
This is the first computer I've ever had, and in my frustration, I went into the BIOS and changed the settings to RAID. Thereafter, I kept trying to install Windows 8.1, and after much changes, including changing the RAID back to ACHI, I am left with a 1tb HDD and for some reason, a 223gb drive that cannot be used.
I went into Computer > Manage > Disk Management and I see 4 volumes:
Healthy (Recovery Partition) 300MB
Healthy (EFI System Partition) 99MB
(C
NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) 931.39 GB
(D RAW Healthy (Primary Partition) 223.06GB
After more googling, apparently I am supposed to do a "diskpart". I went into command prompt and did a diskpart and looked into both storage devices.
list disk
Disk 0 Online 111GB GPT
Disk 1 Online 931GB GPT
list volume
Volume 0 D RAW Partition 223 GB Healthy
Volume 1 RAW Partition 300MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 2 FAT32 Partition 99mb Healthy System
Volume 3 C NTFS Partition 931GB Healthy Boot
select disk 0
list partition
Partition 1 Recovery 300mb 1024kb
Partition 2 System 99mb 301mb
Partition 3 Reserved 128mb 400mb
Partition 4 Primary 223GB 528mb
select disk 1
list partition
Partition 1 Reserved 128mb 1024kb
Partition 2 Primary 931GB 129mb
What I have gathered from this is that my SSD magically became 223gb, when it is clearly a 120 gb (shown in BIOS too). I suspect it must have been something I did to the storage devices when I changed it from ACHI to RAID, and back again. I would set my mobo back to factory settings if I have to, and would rather do it if need be. Please help
I started off trying to install a Windows 7 to no avail. I found a Windows 7 randomly lying in a USB drive that was lying around that I wanted to use, and tried it. The installation worked until the 3rd step, where it couldn't locate my 1TB HDD and 120gb SSD.
This is the first computer I've ever had, and in my frustration, I went into the BIOS and changed the settings to RAID. Thereafter, I kept trying to install Windows 8.1, and after much changes, including changing the RAID back to ACHI, I am left with a 1tb HDD and for some reason, a 223gb drive that cannot be used.
I went into Computer > Manage > Disk Management and I see 4 volumes:
Healthy (Recovery Partition) 300MB
Healthy (EFI System Partition) 99MB
(C
NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) 931.39 GB(D
RAW Healthy (Primary Partition) 223.06GBAfter more googling, apparently I am supposed to do a "diskpart". I went into command prompt and did a diskpart and looked into both storage devices.
list disk
Disk 0 Online 111GB GPT
Disk 1 Online 931GB GPT
list volume
Volume 0 D RAW Partition 223 GB Healthy
Volume 1 RAW Partition 300MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 2 FAT32 Partition 99mb Healthy System
Volume 3 C NTFS Partition 931GB Healthy Boot
select disk 0
list partition
Partition 1 Recovery 300mb 1024kb
Partition 2 System 99mb 301mb
Partition 3 Reserved 128mb 400mb
Partition 4 Primary 223GB 528mb
select disk 1
list partition
Partition 1 Reserved 128mb 1024kb
Partition 2 Primary 931GB 129mb
What I have gathered from this is that my SSD magically became 223gb, when it is clearly a 120 gb (shown in BIOS too). I suspect it must have been something I did to the storage devices when I changed it from ACHI to RAID, and back again. I would set my mobo back to factory settings if I have to, and would rather do it if need be. Please help
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