Installing Windows on a new SSD... How ?

Jaynos

Jaynos

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Hi

I have Windows 8.1 loaded onto a USB disk as a boot drive and was just about to install it on my new Samsung SSD 840 drive but when i try and choose it as the destination drive for windows i get a message appear saying.

"Windows cannot be installed on this disk. This computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disks controller is enabled in the computers BIOS menu"

I've no idea what this means or what to do, anyone able to help ?

I have no other hard drivers plugged in btw (if thats relevant ?)
 
Motherboard = Gigabyte H67M-UD2H-B3 Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION **

I've never done anything in the BIOS, scared i'll do something wrong and don't know where to look to find the setting to change it to ACHI.

I think its plugged into IDE Channel 1 Slave whatever that is ??!?!
 
Okay, you need to first make sure the drive is connected to the white SATA port closest to the heatsink - according to the product image on Gigabyte's site, this port is called "SATA3_0".

Secondly, make sure AHCI is enabled in the BIOS. This is under "Integrated Periphals", then "PCH SATA Control Mode" (second one down). If you get stuck in the BIOS, take some photos and upload them for us to look at. I'm just going by the motherboard manual.

Thirdly, it might be worth your time downloading the drivers from Gigabyte's site: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3769#driver

Choose your OS, then under "SATA RAID/AHCI" choose "Intel SATA Preinstall driver" and extract these files to a USB stick. Then when asked to provide drivers, provide these drivers from the USB stick.
 
brilliant, thank you so much... it seems to be working now.

are there any other things i need to install once i've installed windows ? someone mentioned something about TRIM to me ?
 
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