I had this kind of thing happen only once, on a drive I had been using for various things, including dual booting to Windows and LInux.. I wanted to install Win7 RC on it, but it would not.
I booted to a WinPE CD and deleted the partition on the misbehaving drive and then Win7 RC could see it... I don't remember If I re-formatted it as well, or just deleted the partition.... . -- JRS [email protected] Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, December 30, 2009 2:36:17 PM > Subject: Re: [H] Win7 Install on Intel SSD > > Thanks for looking. > > What is being suggested is exactly what I was doing. I had only the SSD and > the > CD rom drive in the system. The HDD was completely unplugged. > > By the way, I used the easeus program that was pointed out here. It created > a > boot CD and it was able to see both the SSD and the HDD in the system. > > This is strange. Win7 must be at fault. > > I'm doing all of this as a test run....the SSD will not live in the system > I'm > doing this on right ...but this doesn't bode well... > > JRS wrote: > > Found this in another forum.. > > > > I had an identical problem where the BIOS could see my SSD (Kingston > > v-series 128GB), and when I booted into windows I could see it and > > format it and assign a drive letter. But Windows 7 install COULD NOT > > see the SSD, and Acronis True Image could not see the SSD to clone my > > old system disk to it. > > Very frustrating and it took me 2 days to work it out. I tried > > EVERYTHING and didn't really find an answer on ANY forum. But the > > solution was simple... > > Physically remove connections to ALL disks on your computer EXCEPT > > your SSD so it's the only disk connected. Then Windows install WILL see > > the SSD and you can install Windows 7 to it (and I assume Vista). > > -- JRS [email protected] > > > > > > Facts do not cease to exist just > > because they are ignored. > > > >
