Windows 7 Installation Won't Detect SSD
Jun 2, 2012
I'm having some problems with my win7 installation.
As mentioned in the title the main installation will not detect the SSD and is asking for drivers, however, it is detected in diskpart.
The SSD is detected in BIOS, by ubuntu setup, linux mint setup, win7 setup's diskpart. I've ran the diskpart cleaning and reformatting and just cleaning to no avail.
The SSD works perfectly fine and I previously installed Linux Mint on it since win7 setup would not detect it besides in diskpart. I've tried adding the SATA drivers to the installation but that doesn't give me any result either, everywhere I check it's either "do the diskpart thing" or "drive's broken".
Setup:
Asus Sabertooth Z77
i5-2500k
Patriot Pyro SE 250GB
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In the same screen, it does have an option to load a driver.
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The computer is currently running with this HDD in Vista32bit and is seen on the bios. This is the only hdd in this computer, I really don't want to waste money to buy a slower hdd for my computer as the Raptor is 10k rpm.]
Note: I do not care about any data or problem in this hdd, I just formated teh hdd and did a clean
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MB: Asus Striker Extreme
Hdd: WD Raptors 150gb
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