G73-JH A2 SSD trouble

Yea as the title states i just recived my g73 and i tried putting a corsair p128 in it and i cant get it to load windows 7.... ive made a recovery disk (5 dvds) and ive also tried using the asus recovery disk but still nothing. i know im doing something wrong but i dont know what im kinda new to the sdd thing but i need some help in getting it up and running.

Thanks

 

well got a lil further in my endevors. ive formated the ssd to ntfs (allocated 32kb dont know if this is right). ive also tried taking out the remaining 500gig drive to see if it will load the recovery info with just ssd. unfortunately i get a nice big error and im not kidding its in red and takes up the whole screen and to the top left there is some writting "cannot set temp path to work in"....well now im totally lost

 

A little more background info on the SSD would be helpful. Is this brand new just installed?

 

Yup brand new (execpt for the ntfs format). The only way I can get it to load the recovery disk and load windows is to have one of the 500gig drives in..... the only problem is that it doesn't install windows onto the ssd like I want
Edit: I have tried the ssd on my desktop with out a glitch. it's got to be me doing something wrong

 

I installed a Mushkin SSD yesterday and it went smoothly. Try resetting your bios to factory defaults. I would double check your SATA controller is set to AHCI.

 

Is adding a drive in the g73 easy? Or does it require you to disassemble quite a bit?

 

It's easy but if you buy the x1 model you'll be short a hdd bracket.

 

it's pretty easy hardware wise... But I'm having a lil bit of trouble with the software.


But yea achi is set in the bios. but when it gets to the point when it's about to start to copy the files onto the ssd it tells me there is no harddrive and then it just shuts down so I'm about to do a regular install using a regular win7 dvd to see if the problem is the restore disk or my hardware

 

and you can see it in the bios with no issues of it dropping out?

If yes try formatting it in your desktop as Fat32 and then try the Windows 7 install again.

 

Nope no drop out in bios or on my desktop computer. It just won't load windows using the recovery DVD i made. I went ahead and used a new win7 DVD I recently bought and during the installation I pulled the ol' switcharoo on it and got it to load windows. So now I have a fresh install of win7 but with the asus product code. Now I just got to get it to work with the recovery DVD so when I'm travaling and need to recover the lappy it won't take a new win7 DVD to do it.

 

Interesting, at least it's working.

 

Am I wrong or are you simply trying to reinstall a backup to the ssd?

Have u tried simply formatting and doing a clean install?

 

tried to install win7 from a back up and from the asus recovery disk but it wouldnt take. it would say that there is no disk and then it would just shutdown the laptop or depending on what location the ssd was in the laptop (left or right drive caddy) it would give me a white screen with the word ERROR in bright red accross the screen. i tried diffrent positions inside the laptop to place the ssd and every bios option i can think of but i got one of the 2 errors every time. I also had just gotten a new copy of win7 for my desktop build but i didnt want to waste it on a brand new laptop that has a copy of win7 of its own. so i tired doing a fresh install using the brand new win7 disk as soon it got past the first few parts i swamped out the win7 disk and inserted the asus recovery disk. after that it continued to install with out a hitch. what i really want to happen is that if the laptop takes a dump while im in Afghanistan the only disk i would need would be the asus recovery disk to get it back to normal. but right now it looks like it wont be possible.

 

I have a sneaking suspicion that the stupid Asus windows disk is looking for the recovery partition on the stock hard drive.

 

That's not correct. I've used the Recovery DVD with a clean drive and it works fine. However, you do need to use the first option to install to entire HD instead of keeping the partitions, in this case. This is what I did and it worked just fine. Found the info in the user manual.

Had to figure this out since I RMA'ed my laptop and had to put things back in original spec.

 

I stand corrected. I installed Win7Ult fresh so I hadn't seen this issue.

 

tired all 3 options when it came to that screen. but still i recived an error

 

Well, since you have found a *working* solution, I'd suggest sticking with that. But might I suggest making a bootable USB drive with a copy of your Windows 7 retail and switch it out with your ASUS recovery DVD whenever you need to. I've installed plenty machines with Win7 on a USB is it's so much faster.

I first started doing this when reinstalling OS's on netbooks/ultraportables and just went with it for anything I do since it's faster.

*Google taught me how to do this*

 

Well didn't work...after some looking around in windows it seems that when I loaded it with the new win7 disk it also loaded the keys for the disk too and not the ones from the asus recovery disk. So I ended up reformating the disk and now I'm back to square one. When I start the laptop all I get is blinky dash on the top left hand corner of the screen and that's it. I've reset the bios to stock settings. So to rule my lack of knowladge out of the equation can some one give a step by step process ( break it down Barney style) so I can get this thing going once again?

Thanks

 

I don't get it.... I can load a fresh copy of win7 with only the ssd installed but if I try using the asus recovery disk or the AI recover disk it fails right off the bat. But if i install both the 500gig disks back in then it let's me recover it. Is there some type of raid set up I have failed to see?? What kind of sofware did you guys use to image your drives to your ssd? Because in my case asus apperently doesn't want me to upgrade and has me on lock down

 

I did a fresh install with the recovery DVD. No smoke or mirrors used.

 

Could if be the ssd? But at the same time why would it let me do a fresh install with a win7 DVD but would refuse to do it with the asus recovery DVD or the asus AI recovery disks I made. When I get home from work I'm going to try to use the disk imager that win7 has built in and see if that works. If not then the only option is to bite the big one and buy/get a copy of wn7 or not install the ssd either way I'm going to get screwed if I try to add the ssd

 

Bad recover DVD that somehow worked with the 500GB drive? Why do you have to buy Windows 7?

 

Well it's the only way I've had it load win7 into the ssd. I don't know another way to install/recover the lappy with just one disk the only way it will load windows from the asus recovery disk is if I have one or both the 500gig drives installed and in that case that I have one hhd and one ssd it never installs win7 into the ssd

 

Has anyone found an answer to this? Since asus doesnt ship the recovery dvd anymore i had to use the AI recovery software to make the discs. It goes through the whole thing putting the info on the ssd and says it completed successfuly but it wont boot. Windows shows the partition on the ssd as RAW.