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    M14X No Recognising 1TB Samsung SSD

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Hydrology, Jul 9, 2014.

  1. Hydrology

    Hydrology Newbie

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    I have an M14X and I replaced the Vertex 512 SSD with a 1TB Samsung 840 EVO. I am booting off the mSSD that I haven't changed. When Win 7 64bit boots up it says that it cant find a driver for the new drive. I upgraded the BIOS to the latest and upgraded all of the drivers off the Ailenware M14x drivers page. This still had no effect. I took the drive out and installed it in two separate desktops and it worked perfectly in both. It also worked in a portable USB case that I have. I checked the firmware of the 840 and it is the latest.

    I went into setup and the 840 EVO is recognized and displays correctly as the Fixed HDD and the mSSD is an M4-CT256. SATA operation is set to AHCI. I don't know what else to do! Is the M14x incompatible with large SSD's?
     
    Hydrology, Jul 9, 2014
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  2. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    Have you tried setting it on RAID or loading the IRST drivers during the setup?
    What's the exact error you are getting?
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jul 11, 2014
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    go to Create and format a hard disk partition (or search in window)

    select the 1TB hdd and right click it and extend volume/reactive volume.
     
    iPhantomhives, Jul 12, 2014
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