SSD not recognized

Chuck

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I've just received my system from Overclockers with the Intel X25-V SSD. I installed Windows 7 64 myself to the Hard Drive as the SSD was not listed. Windows 7 does not list it anywhere. I downloaded the latest firmware to CD, booted it at startup, and that could not find anything after a scan either.

I just want the OS on the SSD, am I missing something?
 
It should be picked up just like any other HDD and no drivers or firmware are needed for detection. Sounds like you may have a faulty drive. Can you see it in the list of drives in the BIOS? Check also for any loose cables which is not an uncommon problem when installing new drives (been there done that).
 
I'd check the cabling to be sure but sounds like you might need to have the drive replaced. Bit of a stab in the dark here, but you could also try connecting the drive to another SATA port.

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Then do this! Or do this first? Although I suspect they might have you check the cables anyway.
 
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what motherboard is used? I know when I did a new build last week I had all sorts of problems with my Kingston SSD which I believe is based on the intel controller but don't quote me on that.

Anyway I could see it in bios but had a nightmare installing to it .... kept hanging.

It turns out that asus disable PnP OS feature in bios as default. I enabled that and it worked fine. This may help ... worth a try

apart from that try different sata sockets and try unpluging other unessary sata components. (As long as it dosen't invalidate any warrenty OC may offer !)

Also of note if you can get it visible in bios is the mode you run the SSD in, to get mine to work I have to run the SSD in IDE mode instead of AHCI. I tried to switch to AHCI after installation but again it wouldn't detect the drive.

hope you get it sorted
 
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I've got a Gigabyte H55M-UD2H. This has been built by Overclockers so I really expect everything to work out of the box.
 
hhmmm yea I agree it should work straight out of the box. The only thing you may find is if the good guys at OCuk had to change bios settings to get everything to run the bios may have reverted to defaults.

I would certainly let OCuk look after it but I can't hurt to look over the bios settings quickly.
 
I've opened her up and there is just the power cable going from the SSD, past the HDD then to the PSU. There is no SATA cable. Overclockers got my order wrong in the first place, now they miss cabling. I guess it's a trip to ****** before they close.
 
Re-installing Windows 7 on it now :D

Cheers guys, now lets see if Overclockers will reimburse the missing cable.
 
Always good when it's an easy fix. Just wish every tech problem was this simple. Hope you enjoy your new SSD!
 
Jesus that is terribile, i mean if there is no cable on the drive how would they test it prior to shipping..?. Or do overclockers just bung the pc's togther and not bother to test..? If that is the case i certainly wouldn't recommend them to anyone for pre built pc's.
 
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