New SSD and Installing Windows woes

Verbium

Verbium

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Hey guys,

I'm really stuck at the moment with my new Crucial 64gb SSD. I installed windows 7 on to look at performance and left my old drive still in. I made sure my new SSD was the primary drive but it still put the boot information on my old raptor.

So, I decided I would reinstall with the raptor unplugged to stop this from happening again. Now windows refuses to install onto the SSD saying that it was unable to find a suitable drive to install on, even though it can see it.

I've followed some tips around the web saying to quick format the drive in a previous installed version of windows, brings the drive back to life but still refuses to install windows on it.

I'm really quite concerned the drive is FUBAR...

Any help would be great :)
 
You can completely reset the drive if you need. Boot from another HDD install with the SSD connected. Use Diskpart and the clean command (on the SSD, lol) to remove all partitions etc.

1. Open cmd window, type diskpart

2. List disk

3. Select disk ? (? being the SSD disk, if you're not sure which drive it is look under the disk managment, right click Computer icon)

4. clean
 
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Now windows refuses to install onto the SSD saying that it was unable to find a suitable drive to install on,
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Something like "Setup was unable to create a new partition or locate an existing system partition"?

In my case it was because I'd left a USB stick plugged in, so if you have any, remove them, reboot and try again. I have the 128GB version of your drive.
 
I've tried all these options. I'm doing it from a DVD and none of these options worked. I get the same error as DrCheese.
 
Update: Windows 7 and Vista both detect RAID even if you choose not to give it the drivers on first boot. This was the reason mine wouldn't install as it was trying to find my RAID to install to.

/Case Solved!
 
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