Problem installing Intel 310 mSATA

Arhh- had a problem with my new 310 SSD today .

After installation of the SSD, I forgot to remove the Hitachi HDD before switching on the PC. Before I realised my mistake, it started to say 'installing Intel SSD software' or similar. Panicking, I quickly powered down, pulled out the HDD, so that only the SSD remained, and restarted.

On restart, it briefly came up with message PXE E61 Media Test Failure, Check cable. PXE M0F Exiting Intel boot

It then went straight into the Boot menu screen. It said ATA HDD2 : Intel SSD+numbers. Underneath, it said PCI LAN IBA GE SCOT. I tried selecting the Intel entry but nothing happened.

Any help appreciated. Not sure if the problem has anything to do with initially starting the system with both drives (and then rapidly powering down), or to do with anything else.

I'm running BIOS 1.19 and assume this has nothing to do with the mSATA issue that was supposedly sorted in a BIOS update. Thanks.

 

the message you saw was windows installing the driver for your mSATA SSD so it could use it as a storage device.   that was perfectly normal.

the PXE (preboot execution environment) media test failure message is happening because the mSATA SSD is blank and has no OS.

you need to install an OS on your SSD.

 

Lol. But how do you do that? I tried restarting while pressing the thinkvantage button but all that happened is it took me to the bios, IIRC.

Edit: Will be using recovery disks

 

Yep, don't panic and use the recovery media. You should be fine as long as the media and drive are in good working order.

 

If you already created your Recovery Discs then place the 1st Recovery Disc in the DVD drive, press F12 when the ThinkPad logo shows on startup and then select the DVD drive to start up the recovery process. Follow the instructions where it will prompt you to put the data discs in order to restore the factory image back on to the mSATA SSD.

If you haven't made your discs then put the original Hitachi hard drive back in, load up Windows and then go to the Thinkvantage section where there should be a link to creating your own set of discs.

 

Okay, many thanks. Will give it another try.

 

recovery media is the way to go (worked fine for me)... I didn't even have to tweak the bios because without a HDD, optical is next on the boot list

 

It went fine in the end. Just forgot that I needed to have the optical drive connected first along with F12. This forum can be a life saver sometimes. Thanks again to those who helped.

When you reformat your HDD as a data disk, do you do so via the desktop (of the 310 SSD)? Or should you do it by restarting and pressing an F-key? Just want to be sure it's done correctly. I was planning on leaving the recovery partition on the HDD and you cannot seem to do that by reformatting via the desktop.

In order to set up the HDD correctly as a data drive, is there anything you need to do, such as transfer any folders or cache over to it from the SSD?

 

You can format the HDD any way you want. The easiest way is to go is to reformat the main parition via the Desktop. I don't see why that would get rid of your recovery partition. Just don't choose the recovery partition to format.

 

Jeez, you are right. The recovery partition is listed separately in 'computer'. Another round of facepalm

 

Things that make ya go DOH!!!!

I Hate when that happens!



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