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    SSD not being detected

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by ckwbff, Dec 30, 2011.

  1. ckwbff

    ckwbff Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bought a Corsair SATA III SSD but it won't show up under my hard drives. I'm on Win 7 64bit and the SiI 3531 Sata controller under device manager is working. Is the SSD dead?
     
    ckwbff, Dec 30, 2011
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    jimbob83 Notebook Evangelist

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    It might be dead, but I think it just won't show up until you create a partition on it. Go into Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management. You should see your SSD here, click on it then... Sorry, but after this I don't remember exactly -- look for an option to partition or format the drive and go from there.

    Edit: Found a guide, look here: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/22069.aspx
     
    jimbob83, Dec 30, 2011
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    ckwbff Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you that worked.

    Another problem though is that when I originally installed Win 7, I had to manually install the SATA controller driver or it would display as device not working properly. How am I supposed to install an OS if the sata controller won't work with a clean Win 7 install?
     
    ckwbff, Dec 31, 2011
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    Not sure, I did a win7 install with my SATA II SSD and there was no issue. Since I think the chipset driver installed fine it is probably the drives driver itself, ie not the SATA controller but the SATA device controller.

    It may be you need a Win7 SP1 install disk, I am not sure...............
     
    TANWare, Jan 1, 2012
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    ckwbff Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yep, I needed the disk. Thanks TAN.
     
    ckwbff, Jan 2, 2012
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