Help preparing Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive for Windows 7 Professional

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Hi guys

I recently finished buildling my first PC. I am still very new to this and trying to learn as I go along.

To cut a long story short, I was trying to install Windows 7 Pro onto my hard drive, but windows was throwing up some errors to do with partitioning. I had used DiskPart to convert it to a GPT partition table. After a lot of faffing around and solving problems and dealing with new ones, all based around the installing of this copy of windows, I got there. The initial set up finished and windows booted up. However it was logged in for about 10 seconds before restarting, and then hanging on the Gigabyte splash screen.

Now whenever I turn it on it just hangs on that screen, I can not enter the BIOS or boot menu. Removing the drive solves this problem, so there's obviously an issue there.

I'm a little bit concerned that I may have messed the drive up and was thinking of mounting it in another machine and formatting it from inside windows to get it back to it's factory defaults. Or, more specifically, ready to host Windows 7 Pro. Can you guys lead me in the right direction?

Set up:


  • Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive
  • Gigabyte X99-SLI
  • Intel Core i7 5820K
  • Kingston Predator 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4
  • MSI GeForce GTX 960

Many thanks!
 
Can't you when installing Windows delete the partitions and then create a single partition and have Windows setup do the formatting, seems to always work for me fine.
 
Maundie said:
Can't you when installing Windows delete the partitions and then create a single partition and have Windows setup do the formatting, seems to always work for me fine.
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Yes this is what I need to do, but I think the drive needs sorting out before that. I have got to the point where even if it's just plugged into the mobo, the pc hangs on the boot screen and I cant get into Setup or Boot Menu. This problem is then remedied as soon as the SSD comes out :confused:

I cant access it to format it. Is the only way going to be to mount it in somebody else pc and work on it from there?
 
geeedo said:
Yes this is what I need to do, but I think the drive needs sorting out before that. I have got to the point where even if it's just plugged into the mobo, the pc hangs on the boot screen and I cant get into Setup or Boot Menu. This problem is then remedied as soon as the SSD comes out :confused:

I cant access it to format it. Is the only way going to be to mount it in somebody else pc and work on it from there?
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Ah right gotcha now, do you have a external 2.5" caddy as you could mount it via usb save opening a machine up?

Have you looked in the BIOS to see if the drive is recognised in there?
 
Maundie said:
Ah right gotcha now, do you have a external 2.5" caddy as you could mount it via usb save opening a machine up?

Have you looked in the BIOS to see if the drive is recognised in there?
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I don't have one unfortunately. I've now mounted it in my friends PC and am using windows to format it and return it to default.

I am not able to check if it is recognized, as the PC hangs on the Gigabyte splash screen, I cant get into the BIOS.

It was recognized in my friend's PC though, obviously as I am now formatting it. Which leads me to wonder that it can't be ALL the drives fault, and possibly some messed up settings in BIOS with my machine / faulty parts?

I say this because I have tried running the PC with a different HDD running Win 7 on it as the primary drive, with the SSD mounted as well. Again, hanging on splash screen...
 
geeedo said:
I say this because I have tried running the PC with a different HDD running Win 7 on it as the primary drive, with the SSD mounted as well. Again, hanging on splash screen...
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I assume you can boot to the Windows 7 Hdd when the SSD isn't connected?

Looks like it could be an issue with the SSD but if it works in your friends PC then not sure what could be the issue (possible firmware/BIOS conflict with your motherboard).

Can you check that there isn't any known issues with your motherboard and the SSD controller as I'm at work and can't look it up.
 
Maundie said:
I assume you can boot to the Windows 7 Hdd when the SSD isn't connected?

Looks like it could be an issue with the SSD but if it works in your friends PC then not sure what could be the issue (possible firmware/BIOS conflict with your motherboard).

Can you check that there isn't any known issues with your motherboard and the SSD controller as I'm at work and can't look it up.
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I looked at it in my friends PC and changed the partition table back to MBR. I converted it to GPT when I was having some issues trying to install Windows 7 before. Having read this guide it says you an install on MBR and should not attempt using GPT unless you really know what you're doing (which I don't.)

I enabled AHCI SATA in the BIOS, and like it said in the above guide, booted into USB option which didn't say UEFI.

I have now cleaned the drive with disk part, let windows create the partitions, and am now installing windows.

Things are looking up!
 
Maundie said:
Cool, looks like you've sorted it and your on your way.

Feels good when you manage to resolve something doesn't it?
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Really does. Although it's less satisfying to know that I don't understand why GPT was causing such a fuss. Will need to investigate further
 
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