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    mSATA installation issue

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Khuz360, Aug 4, 2012.

  1. Khuz360

    Khuz360 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi I dont know if this has been answered already.. But what does the mSATA drive appear as in the BIOS boot menu?? I have cloned my drive to the mSATA and removed the old drive. However when I have tried to boot the machine nothing works. When I look in the boot menu on the BIOS the mSATA drive does not show. However the BIOS does see the drive under the mSATA heading. Please help??
     
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    1.have you put your hard-drives & ssd in right bays ???
    2. are you using proper RAID configuration ???
     
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    Khuz360 Notebook Enthusiast

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    The SSD drive is in the mSATA as it is an mSATA drive.. As for the RAID configuration it doesn't look like there is a setting in the BIOS for that. The mSATA drive appears in the bios but there is no option in the BIOS to set it as the boot drive or atleast not one I can see..

    Also I'm not doing a clean install, I have simply cloned my existing drive but that shouldnt make a difference..
     
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    i have Windows 7 on my 7200rpm Hard drive (C: ) ................ i have 2st 750GB 7200rpm hard drives.
    and using my mSata ssd for faster cache (Raid0)...thats it.........works awesome.

    im not bother to install windows 7 in a other way.......ive read about several people who got issues installing windows 7 on ssd with mSata3 involved, etc.

    here how it looks:
    [​IMG]
     
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    KSMB where have you read about people having issues problems booting from an mSATA??
     
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    here, toms hardware and a Swedish forum......not just regarding 7720, also other laptops with mSata, (alienware, etc, etc, etc).

    can also say in some posts people has been successful after a bit struggling.


    A TIP.....WRITE "install windows on ssd with msata" in GOOGLE and see how many you hits you get........its MANY people who has issues. :cool:


    ps....the answer is: 161000 hits
     
    KSMB, Aug 5, 2012
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