ASUS P9X79 pro not finding SSD!

Skynet-T800 · 18 Apr 2013 at 22:52

just trying to figure out how this installs, trying to get win 7 installed!

Need driver?

Drive not showing in setup of win 7!

wazza300 · 18 Apr 2013 at 22:54

Do you have another pc to plug the hdd into? It probably needs initializing

Try plugging it into different SATA ports too

pgi947 · 18 Apr 2013 at 22:59

^I had that with a few drives, fairly sure you can initialize it in something like gparted if you can't get into an os.

Skynet-T800 · 18 Apr 2013 at 23:44

pgi947 said:
^I had that with a few drives, fairly sure you can initialize it in something like gparted if you can't get into an os.

What's this?

wazza300 · 19 Apr 2013 at 00:09

it sets the drive up ready to format ect

if you can plug it into another pc,then you can click start/right click my computer/manage/storage/disk management and initialize or create a simple volume

the drive should then show up in windows,and youll be able to install to it

Skynet-T800 · 19 Apr 2013 at 00:15

Ok cheers will give this a try.

Nothing is straight forward!

pgi947 · 19 Apr 2013 at 06:41

Gparted is a live disc drive management program. Wazza's method is probably easier if you have a spare machine to plug it into

scotsdragon · 19 Apr 2013 at 19:21

when you install windows are you doing a custom install it normally allows you to format it from that section with the disc?

Skynet-T800 · 19 Apr 2013 at 20:11

I managed it but by finding out the Shift + F10 in the set up screen gives you a command prompt where you can format drives and assign them, it picked up the SSD but didn't give a name for it and having 3 500gb drives 1 of which was SSD was trial & error in finding it!

From there I formatted it and sorted!

Wot a load of messing about though.

Cheers for help though

scotsdragon · 19 Apr 2013 at 22:13

glad you fixed it