SSD & New Win 7 Upgrade problems

TobyH

TobyH

TobyH

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I recently bought a 60gb OCZ Agility 3 SSD with the purpose of installing an upgrade version of Win 7 32bit.

I currently have Win XP on a 250gb HDD along with the following PC spec:

Asus Maximus II Formula
Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz CPU
4gb Kingston Hyperx DDR2 8500 Ram
ASUS EAH4350 Silent 512mb Graphics

I'm currently trying to disconnect the 250gb HDD but keep the SSD connected and using the Win 7 CD to boot from and in theory install Win 7 on the SSD.

The problem I'm having is that when it comes to the choice of which drive to install Win 7 on it sees the SSD but says it cannot install on this drive because of a problem with the SSD Controller.

I've tried adding drivers from the ASUS Maximus website specific for SATA. But this doesn't seem to sort out the issue.

Can anyone give me an idea of how to sort this out?

Oh and I need to do a Custom install rather than an Upgrade install because apparently you can't do an Upgrade install on a blank HD/SSD.

I'm just not sure where I'm going wrong and whether all my settings on BIOS are correct.

Cheers
Toby
 
To be honest I'm not entirely sure. It may have been trying out the different SATA/Chipset driver options that were downloaded from ASUS and Intel. I also double checked that the BIOS was correct.

I'm not very familiar with the protocols of SSD drives so it's all a bit complicated for me!

I did some reading on various sites about controllers and AHCI and realised it could only really be the motherboard chipset/SATA drivers that weren't letting the SSD work properly. Trouble is because I have XP on my old HDD there is a big step between XP and Win 7 compared to Vista and Win 7 and a lot of driver guides etc would have information on going from Vista to Win 7 which didn't help much.

All seems ok now though with my old XP HDD running as a 2nd HDD but booting from the SSD and running Win 7.
 
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