Dude....Bingo! After reading your message, I simply deleted the SSD
partition while in Win 7 (booting off the HDD). Then I booted install of
the CD and setup now sees all the drives. Now I'm going to power down
and remove the HDD and try this again.
Thanks!
JRS wrote:
I had this kind of thing happen only once, on a drive I had been using for
various things, including dual booting to Windows and LInux.. I wanted to
install Win7 RC on it, but it would not.
I booted to a WinPE CD and deleted the partition on the misbehaving drive and
then Win7 RC could see it... I don't remember If I re-formatted it as well, or
just deleted the partition....
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--
JRS
stei...@pacbell.net
Facts do not cease to exist just
because they are ignored.
----- Original Message ----
From: Anthony Q. Martin <amar...@charter.net>
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wed, December 30, 2009 2:36:17 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Win7 Install on Intel SSD
Thanks for looking.
What is being suggested is exactly what I was doing. I had only the SSD and the
CD rom drive in the system. The HDD was completely unplugged.
By the way, I used the easeus program that was pointed out here. It created a
boot CD and it was able to see both the SSD and the HDD in the system.
This is strange. Win7 must be at fault.
I'm doing all of this as a test run....the SSD will not live in the system I'm
doing this on right ...but this doesn't bode well...
JRS wrote:
Found this in another forum..
I had an identical problem where the BIOS could see my SSD (Kingston
v-series 128GB), and when I booted into windows I could see it and
format it and assign a drive letter. But Windows 7 install COULD NOT
see the SSD, and Acronis True Image could not see the SSD to clone my
old system disk to it.
Very frustrating and it took me 2 days to work it out. I tried
EVERYTHING and didn't really find an answer on ANY forum. But the
solution was simple...
Physically remove connections to ALL disks on your computer EXCEPT
your SSD so it's the only disk connected. Then Windows install WILL see
the SSD and you can install Windows 7 to it (and I assume Vista).
-- JRS stei...@pacbell.net
Facts do not cease to exist just
because they are ignored.
