SSD Not appearing in Windows 7 install

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As above! This is my first SSD, Im using an older motherboard (Asrock Conroe 945g), the drive is showing up in my BIOS but not in the Windows 7 install, ie when selecting which drive to install Windows to.

My motherboard is flashed to the latest firmware, Ive removed everything but the one drive, it still doesnt seem to like the drive. Are there other drivers I need to update or install to recognise the drive?

The drive is an OCZ Vertez II (60GB).

can anyone help? cheers.:)
 
I can't choose AHCI, there's no option (unless I'm missing it? but I doubt it, I've had a good look around.)
 
It's sometimes called "Enhanced IDE" or "Enhanced SATA".

There's not that option either, just been looking and googling. At any rate shouldn't it install fine in IDE mode? I bought the disk on the for sale forum... Hope it's not faulty!
 
Not really, and even if you could make that work it need to be on ahci to flash firmwares.

I dont mind not flashing the firmware, would to see if it works. I know the chipset ICH7 works fine with SSD's so not sure what could be wrong.
 
quick review of AHCI vs IDE mode.

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It's not great, but it's not catastrophic. If your mobo doesn't like AHCI, you can try IDE. But ideally, you'll need to swap to AHCI asap (i.e. upgrade mobo, get PCI-e controller card, ...).

EDIT : benchies are for Sandforce SF1200.
 
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quick review of AHCI vs IDE mode.

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It's not great, but it's not catastrophic. If your mobo doesn't like AHCI, you can try IDE. But ideally, you'll need to swap to AHCI asap (i.e. upgrade mobo, get PCI-e controller card, ...).

EDIT : benchies are for Sandforce SF1200.

I cant even get Windows to recognise the drive (at installation) let alone worry about speed..:p Id love it if I got even crap benchmarks!
 
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That's nothing, I just picked one up and can't install windows off a DVD, ''Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key'', keep getting that it doesn't even reach Windows 7 install, and nobody has been able to help me, been at it for the last 14 hours, on my only day off of the week and gotten nowhere all day. Not happy. I got an Asus m4a89gtd pro motherboard, with latest bios is it good for this SSD?
 
That's nothing, I just picked one up and can't install windows off a DVD, ''Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key'', keep getting that it doesn't even reach Windows 7 install, and nobody has been able to help me, been at it for the last 14 hours, on my only day off of the week and gotten nowhere all day. Not happy. I got an Asus m4a89gtd pro motherboard, with latest bios is it good for this SSD?

Tried going in to the BIOS and selecting the DVDRW to boot first?
 
Anyone got an idea what could be causing this issue? RAM? Faulty drive? I cant boot my PC with the drive plugged in alongside the other drive, it keeps on saying Missing Windows Installation (must have an old install on there??)
 
No man. It's just you're drive priority screwed up. If your SSD doesn't boot WITHOUT other drives, it's possible the master boot record (MBR) is installed on another drive, so you'll need to do a windows repair, with the optical drive as a primary drive, and boot with only the SSD (and optical drive) plugged in.

If it doesn't boot WITH other drives, some other drive with a higher boot priority (in the bios), and with a previous windows install (or some other crap windows loves to install) is taking over and failing (incomplete or partially deleted OS).
 
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I'd go to the Intel support site and download the F6 RST driver for your OS. You can install the driver via Windows setup, it'll rescan and hopefully pick up the drive. SSDs are a bit fickle though.
 
Asus m4a89gtd pro mobo
CIT 750
G.skill ripjaw 2gb
Phenom b55 3.2ghz

I've just done a bench test. I've taken everything out, unplugged all my drives, l have 1 stick of ram in and my CPU, using on board graphics.

I still get this ''Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key'' even when I have no drives plugged in, it is for sure something motherboard related.

I have no USB devices plugged, I've taken them all out. I do get one thing pop up when I turn it on and that is ''Sata 1 ATAPI incompatible'', my guess is that has something to do with my problem. I have no SATA devices plugged in what so ever.
I'm off to work now, would be greatfull if you would post anything you may think is behind this ''Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key'' as we now know it's not any external hardware. Must be a motherboard option? or something that's enabled/disabled that's causing this. Or a faulty mobo? I have no idea. But, I'm happy that I've narrowed it down, it could have been anything yesterday.

Mobo, PSU, CPU is all I got left. Help anyone?
 
The big issue here is whether your board supports AHCI mode or not as some older one's don't. TRIM won't work without AHCI meaning your SSD will suffer performance issues and significantly slow down over time.
 
It supports it, it's a fairly new board.

My board is having some issues, I did a bench test yesterday and all my other hardware, SSD included is fine and not causing the problems I'm experiencing. It seems to try and find the SATA 1 device hat it believes to be there and tries to boot from it, it ignores my boot sequence all together for some reason. I've tried everything over the last couple days, need to give ASUS a call and see if I can get it sent back to them.
 
Guys now I'm having the same problem with the same SSD but in a different rig (for my brother).. It's in an ASUS P6T SE, AHCI mid on, the drive is recognised in the BIOS but when I go to the windows install it won't detect the SSD. Starting to think there's something wrong with the SSD...
 
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