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    2GB m-sata cache Intel (R) Rapid Storage Technology (8770W)

    Discussion in 'HP Business Class Notebooks' started by rezpower, Feb 25, 2013.

  1. rezpower

    rezpower Notebook Consultant

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    I need help to understand how this cache device works and what to do to prevent data loss and
    hard disk corruption as this already happened to me few times. I lost all my partitions including
    the hp recovery partition and all data were lost and drives were known as raw and inaccessible.

    What caused this every time was that I have the 17inch 8770W, so I can put 2 hard disks in it
    at same time. I did this and I installed a MS Windows on each hard disk and would choose at
    bios startup what disk I wanted to boot with. apparently as when booting with windows on drive 1
    the Drive 0 was accelerated and cashed it would cause problems! So I gave this up! :(

    But I kept a hard disk with windows installed on it and would pull out the hard disk 0 and put hard
    disk 1 in the laptop to boot and that would also cause data loss and problem as apparently m-sata
    is accelerating the absent drive and it gets messed up. Before having this pc with my older laptop
    I would boot with second HDD to just restore a Ghost or Acronis image on my first Hdd after a
    failure or infection or problem. But now this causes data loss and lots of trouble and system can't
    boot after a successful image recovery with acronis or ghost.

    So please can someone explain how and what should I do to prevent this? In the case of system
    problem how do I remove that caching to prevent further damage and data loss, so I can be able
    to repair or restore system from an image and then re-enable the acceleration?

    Also what should I do if I want to do a dual boot to prevent data loss? should I disable acceleration
    in windows on hdd 0 before restart and booting from hdd1?
     
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  2. Sotton

    Sotton Notebook Evangelist

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    Do you use Windows 7 or 8? I have heard something about Windows 8 and Caching but cannot find it right now, however, if you don't use Windows 8 then this is not the problem at all...
     
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  3. rezpower

    rezpower Notebook Consultant

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    I use windows 8 but If I recall correctly this happened to me the first time with windows 7
    Also I am sure once I had windows 7 on one drive and windows 8 on the other and when
    I chose to boot from other drive by pressing f9 it killed my hadd
     
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