Posted: 4/9/2013 5:30:23 AM EDT
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My old hard drive died without warning. I am trying to install a new SSD and do a fresh install of Windows 7. The problem I am having is that i cannot get the Windows install to format and recognize the SSD.
Laptop: Dell Inspiron 1721 SSD: Samsung 840 120Gb Suggestions? Thanks! |
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Quoted: My old hard drive died without warning. I am trying to install a new SSD and do a fresh install of Windows 7. The problem I am having is that i cannot get the Windows install to format and recognize the SSD. Laptop: Dell Inspiron 1721 SSD: Samsung 840 120Gb Suggestions? Thanks! enter the bios, make sure your sata controller is set to AHCI and not S-ATA or Legacy |
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Quoted: BIOS recognizes the drive. I cannot see where I can set the drive to AHCI. The only option I have is to set the drive for RAID 0 or not. it might be labeled something like "PCI options" or something to that effect. just look around in there. raid in laptop? do you have another hard drive bay?
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Quoted: Yes, I have two bays. Drive bay B is currently empty. In my BIOS, I have SATA Operation under Onboard Devices. My options are "RAID Autodetect/ATA" and "RAID On" Otherwise, I cannot find anyplace to set the SATA option to ACHI. What is it currently set on? Try RAID Autodetect, see if that doesn't work. Otherwise try ATA |
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Quoted: OK. Installed just fine on the regular HDD. Now, onto the clone... Even if you clone your drive, you need to enable AHCI. My suggestion would be to perform a BIOS upgrade. It seems that people with your same model laptop have AHCI as an option....so I don't see why you wouldn't other than having a early production of your particular model that didn't get a factory BIOS upgrade.
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Quoted: Got it! Once I got the hard drive cloned, I was able to see the AHCI option in the BIOS. As a matter of fact, it was already selected. Great! How peculiar though. Anyway, you might want to do a couple important things to help your drive out now that you have AHCI enabled. AHCI allows you to enable TRIM on the SSD, so I would do that. Here is a little guide of some things you should do, and a little reasoning behind them. I think this would be beneficial. |