Help no disks ?

Phage

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So I have new SSD to put into the machine on the left. I format the disk, take a full system image and then start to reinstall.
But it wont.
It says that there are no disks visible to install to. Mobo is set to AHCI should I change to IDE ? If so wouldn't the install be different ?
 
I don't know why AHCI doesn't work...
Under IDE - W7 installation still couldn't see the disks. So I went for restore from image, and it seems OK with that.
Not sure how that's possible when it can't see the disks ?

What is the reg tweak ?
 
Ok it's restored, but it insists on making the M4 the c: drive rather than the 830 as I wanted. Now how do I force it to do what I want ?

M4 = s/be C:
830 = s/be B:
HDD = s/be E:

How ?
 
which drive is the operating system on? you mean boot order? or you want to change the drive letters?

you can set the 830 as first boot device in the bios

to change drive letters click start/right click my comuter/manage/storage/disk management and rename the drive letter
 
Old setup was booting from M4 - C:, Vertex2 as B; HDD as E.
I wanted to make it
830=C (boot)
m4=B (other apps and steam)

I did change the boot order in BIOS before the restore so that 1st boot was DVD, followed by 830, followed by m4.
So I should re-letter the drives and restore again ?
 
can if you want although if you set the 830 as first boot device it should boot from that and see it as the c drive

i have two drives with seperate windows on them and whatever drive i boot from its labelled as the c drive
 
Active eh ? What does that do ?
Disk manager certainly seems fine with it otherwise. I just can't seem to make it the C:/Boot drive.
Thanks for the help BTW, this is driving me nuts.
 
I know - bizarre.
I really don't want to spend the weekend doing a full clean install.
I'll try swapping some ports and cables as well. <sigh> Getting late now though. Will try again tomorrow
 
Update: Gawd what hard work that was !

Discovered I couldn't do a one-shot of recovery from backup because of the changed structure of my disks. The Restore would litter my system image across the new state with no rhyme or reason. The 830 wouldn't show in the BIOS, but did in W7. The solution was as follows;

1) Flash MoBo to latest version. 830 appears
2) Use the 'Clean' command in Diskpart to format the 830. It is now installable-to, where it wasn't before.
3) Unplug all other devices and install W7 from DVD to the 830
4) Use disk manager to format and partition the other SSD and HDD
5) Re-install apps from download or disc, not from backup. It gets all fidgety about the new disk layouts.
6) Re-install music, pictures and document folders.
7) Install Steam client replace apps folder from backup.
8) Moan about it on forums... :)
 
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