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    NP9150, Windows 8 and a Crucial M4

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by contradude, Mar 5, 2013.

  1. contradude

    contradude Notebook Consultant

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    Hey all, I am trying to set up Intel SRT with my NP9150 and a "clean" (no partitions in diskpart) Crucial m4 64gb mSata SSD. the laptop was in raid mode and has a fresh install of windows 8 pro. I keep getting an unknown error from intel RST when I tell it to accellerate... It manages to mark the hard drive as a caching drive but never starts caching. any ideas?
     
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    contradude Notebook Consultant

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    Nevermind, Managed to figure it out. If you are running UEFI bios, shrink the hard drive by 20 megs, expand it back to full and reboot. It will then work normally

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    funny workaround. how did u figure it out?
     
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    contradude Notebook Consultant

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    A lot of googling, honestly. the desktop guys on the intel forums figured it out after a lot so I figured that it wouldn't hurt to try and reproduce it. Something weird about the way that the windows installer creates partitions.
     
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    so now your disk has one partition or two like this?
    [​IMG]
     
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    That's a pretty strange workaround indeed. I'll have to keep that in mind next time I hear of this issue.
     
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    It has the same partition structure (I think windows 8 uefi does 3 or 4). I just shrunk/expanded the primary (largest/windows/files) partition

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    contradude Notebook Consultant

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    You're telling me... it kept popping up on the official Intel forums and sure enough it works.

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    Wow. That's great that you found a workaround. I'd still very much like to know the technical issue behind the why.

    P.S. Who/what is that on the can in your avatar? Reminds me of a certain game... ;)
     
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    i always keep thinking about jamiroquai :D

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    contradude Notebook Consultant

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    That is indeed correct :)

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    ha,nice :cool:

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