SSDuser Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 I bought SSD yesterday. Since i am novice i had to read around just to connect it. I hooked a sata cable from the SSD to the motherboard. And hooked the SSd into a sata power cable from the powersupply cables. Then i started the computer. But then this pre boot up think come up and i just have to turn it off and unplugg the ssd from the sata power cable. Then im fine, but cant find SSD. Why does it all stop when im connecting the way i do ? What do i do wrong ? Sorry for beeing novice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Depends on whart the pre-boot thing was. Ultimately though, if it doesn't have power connected to it, it won't be on, therefore it can't find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wozie Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 make sure plugged into sata 1 on your mainboard as well and look through the forum its good advice and lot good people will help you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manick Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 make sure plugged into sata 1 on your mainboard as well and look through the forum its good advice and lot good people will help you This seems to be different depending on what mainboard you are using. I have absolutly no clue if im using sata 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 or 9 on my mainboard for my discs, the performance is awsome anyways :)for some reason my two dics are found as "Sata 0" and "Sata 2" but looking at the connectors on the mainboard it looks like im using Sata 5 + 6 instead :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee Bluebeard Posted October 28, 2009 Corsair Employee Share Posted October 28, 2009 Check the boards manual - it should be in there which SATA ports have which number ;): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSDuser Posted October 28, 2009 Author Share Posted October 28, 2009 make sure plugged into sata 1 on your mainboard as well and look through the forum its good advice and lot good people will help you Its connected to Sata 1. I can see it in bios. But cant see it in Windows even tho i got the messege that the driver has been installed. I wish i could just plug it in. Then start up and voila it was there. Note: I must always manually push F8 then choose my old HDD to boot from when SSD is plugged. If not i just get some numbers up and must shut down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Sounds like you need to change the boot order in your BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan57 Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 I'm also having the same problem. New Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R mother board bios sees the Corsair X64 but when I try to load Windows 7 it reports there is no drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan57 Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 I can load Windows through a Western Digital 650 SATA drive but when I disconnect the WD and connect the Corsair, Windows 7 will see the Corsair 64. I am using SATA 0 connector but have tried other ports with no result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted October 30, 2009 Corsair Employee Share Posted October 30, 2009 Windows can only have one HDD active on the system and if you have more than one drive installed it will select the Active drive that is first on the Boot order from your BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan57 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I posted this problem the other day using a GIGABYTE GA-P55-UD3R motherboard. BIOS did see the Corsair X64 but Windows 7 didn't. Now I have installed a new motherboard ASUS|P7P55D PRO P55 RT and I'm having the same problem. BIOS sees the Corsair but Windows 7 does not. I have put the X64 on the first SATA port and my CDRom on the last port. Still Windows 7 does not see the X64. I am going to ship the X64 back to newegg unless someone knows of any other tricks to make the drive available to Windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted November 5, 2009 Corsair Employee Share Posted November 5, 2009 How is the BIOS set for the SSD Drive? And can you test with another O.S. to see if it detects the drive like Windows Vista or XP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joytech22 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Wait, did you do a quick format? Go into control panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer management then click on Disk management, then look for your SSD and click on it once. Right click on the Unpartitioned (bar with details on it but a black line over it) and select format, Make sure to click !!!!!Quick format!!!!! for Allocation Unit Size i think you put in 32 kilobytes (32KB) EDIT: Sorry if this didn't help much, but sometimes people forget to do this, and the drive wont show up, it happened when i installed my 1TB drive :D EDIT2: OOPS also forgot to give some help on the bios settings or whatever, but here i think i go! Okay, Go into your BIOS and select the boot drive for permanent use (one with Windows) so you wont have to always hit F8, then you can boot up without always hitting F8. Then when you manage to boot into windows, with SSD and everything connected, follow the instructions from my primary post (from top of post to the 32KB bytes thing) Tell us how it all goes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted November 5, 2009 Corsair Employee Share Posted November 5, 2009 For an SSD I would suggest formatting with 32K Allocation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan57 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Drive is set as the first SATA device (1). The CDRom is set to the last (6). I just tested leading Vista and got the same result of no drive avaible. I have tried this in AHCP and IDE modes with the same result. Here is what the BIOS shows. Device: Hard Disk Vender: Corsair CMFSSD-64D1 Size: 64.0 GB LBA Mode: Supported Block Mode: Not Supported PIO Mode: 4 Async DMA: MultiWord DMA-2 Ultra DMA: Ultra DMA-5 SMART Monitoring: Supported. again, it's an Asus P7P55D Pro motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnapp1 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I have had the same issue with SSD drives. You need to initialize the drive. You may need do the following from another PC if you have no OS you can boot into with the drive connected. Go to Control Panel then Device Manager. Right click on Disk Drives and click Scan For Hardware Changes. You should get prompted to initialize the drive once the scan is finished. If that doesn't work right click on My Computer or Computer (depends on OS) and select Manage. From the left select Disk Management (under storage). You should see the drive there. Next right click on the drive and select format. It will ask you if you want to initialize the drive. Just make sure you do a quick format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted November 5, 2009 Corsair Employee Share Posted November 5, 2009 Can you test that drive on another system? to be sure it is not some problem with that MB? We can try and replace the drive if you like, please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan57 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 What am I doing wrong? I didn't have another system with all the connectors for the Corsair drive so this is what I did. Put a WD drive on the system and loaded Windows 7. Then connected the Corsair to SATA 5 and I do see the drive. Did a format on the Corsair. Removed the WD drive and loaded Win 7. But, again Windows doesn't see the drive. What I would like to do is Boot Windows 7 for the Corsair and keep the WD drive as my data drive. Any ideas on what I doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan57 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Oh yes, when I removed the WD drive I did move the Corsair bact to SATA 1, then tried to load Windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan57 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Another question. I don't have any documentation on what the two pins are used for on the side of the SATA and power connectors are for. Looks like a jumper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan57 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 One more thing. Ran a repaire option throught Windows 7 and the result was that the Partition table is corrupt on disk \device\harddisk0 Error code 0x490 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted November 6, 2009 Corsair Employee Share Posted November 6, 2009 Let's get it replaced, please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan57 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Ok, thanks I just sent in the RMA request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted November 7, 2009 Corsair Employee Share Posted November 7, 2009 NP Please let me know if you have any more questions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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