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    XPS M1330 & SATA/AHCI SSD Installation problem

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by niplfsh, Jul 28, 2010.

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    niplfsh Notebook Enthusiast

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    This is driving me absolutely crazy. I'm trying to install Windows 7 x64 on my Dell XPS M1330. I just bought a used OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD. It was previously used in a RAID0 array.

    I install it in my laptop, and the BIOS sees it as a 64GB drive. Cool. I have AHCI mode enabled in the BIOS. So I boot to my Win7 disk, and it doesn't see the drive. So I load the AHCI driver on a USB stick, it finds the driver fine, and the drive pops up..... as a 119.2GB drive? It's all unallocated space and I can't create any partitions on it, not even a very small one. It throws the following error: "Failed to create a new partiton on the selected unused space. [Error: 0x8007045d].

    Argh!#@ Please help me before I headdesk myself to death.
     
    niplfsh, Jul 28, 2010
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