Help please!

maforduk · 3 Jul 2013 at 17:57

I bought the 250Gb Samsung 840.
I have a 1Tb HDD.

Windows 7 I use, I installed the SSD with a clean install of Windows 7 and all workds lovely, i'm trying to format my old HDD which also has windows 7 on but it's not letting me, can anyone help?

Also, I didn't know about this ACHI I think it is until after my install of windows to my SSD, can this be changed now or is it too late?

Thanks.

Steampunk · 3 Jul 2013 at 18:35

Error message when trying to format the old drive?

You probably need to delete the partitions first before you can format the drive.

rpstewart · 3 Jul 2013 at 18:49

Was the 1Tb drive connected when you installed Win7 on the SSD? If so then the machine may still be loading the boot files from the HDD (while loading everything else from the SSD), in that situation Windows will not let you format the drive it's booting from.

You can check in Disk Management to see what the actual boot volume is.

maforduk · 3 Jul 2013 at 19:49

Managed to sort it, it was installed when I installed the SSD.

I reinstalled windows on the SSD using AHCI setting and formatted the old HDD from Win7 disk

Cheers for the replies.

Ikilleddave · 8 Jul 2013 at 07:54

Similar issue

I've been trying this for a while now and its hurting my head, i tried to install raid 0 on 2 exactly the same ssd's and I've managed to create the array just fine, its just installing windows thats the problem i get the 'Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu.'

I did manage to get it installed once but forgot to make the raid array the priority in the boot order so i had to go back and do it again, I just have no idea what i need to do, I cleaned the disks in disk part, format them, delete the raid array and start over but still nothing, i heard about deleting the MBR but i can imagine the MBR is deleted when i delete the raid array, im really confused if anyone could help that would be great :confused:

Steampunk · 8 Jul 2013 at 10:27

You should probably name the hardware (SSD, motherboard, etc) you're trying to use.

Have you set the drive to RAID instead of AHCI in the BIOS? You will likely need to provide drivers for the RAID array during Windows install.

If you're using Intel's RST for RAID, the simplest way is to install to one drive, then use the RST utility to create the array that includes the second SSD, while transferring the data from the first SSD.

Are you sure you need RAID 0 on two SSDs? Are they not individually fast enough, and is your interface fast enough to make it worthwhile? You may be putting a lot of effort into something that doesn't gain you any benefit, and gives you an array that will lose all it's data if one drive fails.

Ikilleddave · 8 Jul 2013 at 20:18

thanks for the reply

im using a foxconn a74ml-k to which there are no drivers for raid 0, after research i found that win 7s default drivers work fine, Im only trying to use raid 0 as i bought the 2 ssds before i decide on parts for my new build and was hoping to use raid 0 just to see some extreme performance increase before i do build my new rig. I have followed the motherboards manual and created a raid 0 array that the motherboard says is functional, win 7 recognises the array as one drive but i always get that error message