SSD not showing up in Windows 7

[Sheri250]

Hi,
I have recently been trying to install Elementary OS on an SSD that I bought a while ago but never used. It worked, but I thought I would try Ubuntu instead so I formatted the hard drive and then installed ubuntu via a USB drive. I then thought that Elementary was a lot nicer so I tried going back to that but I got an error message: Errno 5. I tried with a different USB and I still got it so I went back onto Windows on my primary hard drive and the SSD was not in my computer anymore. Since then I have tried many things to get the SSD discoverable by Windows again including post #2 on this thread and also karlsnooks' suggestions in this thread but nothing has worked. I got it to be seen by Windows using the suggestions in the second thread and even formatted it while I could see it but when I restarted my PC it went away again. I can see the SSD in BIOS as well so I know that all connections are secure. Worst comes to worst I can install Linux on my third HDD which works but I really would not like my SSD to be useless as it was quite expensive!

P.S. The SSD is a Kingston 240GB ATA

 

[ED209]

in windows does the drive appear under disk management?

have you checked to see if the SSD has a drive letter assigned to it, if it has double check its not in use by something else.

in the bios have you set the sata ports to achi?

another thing to try is a different sata cable as well