usthomsen~SPARTA~ Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 (edited) Hello Just got a Intel 320 ssd from a friend and i wanna use it as my windows drive. I seem to have some trouble though First thing is that windows wont install on it. It simply dosn´t show up on the screen were to select drive for installation. Bios shows it´s there but.... Second issue is that my friend used it for gods know what but there seems to be some systemfiles on it and thereby i can´t format it in discmanager. Keeps saying that drive is in use. HELP!!!! Edited March 7, 2012 by usthomsen~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custard~SPARTA~ Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 1. Unplug all other drives and try 2. Hirens boot CD download this and try to reformat/sort out mbr drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter~SPARTA~ Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 (edited) You have to mount new drive before it can me used with win 7 1. Click on Start 2. Enter diskmgmt.msc into the search field Edited March 6, 2012 by peter~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usthomsen~SPARTA~ Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 You have to mount new drive before it can me used with win 7 1. Click on Start 2. Enter diskmgmt.msc into the search field Already been there. Only thing i can do is shrink volume. Format is greyed out.. I don´t get the delete volume option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usthomsen~SPARTA~ Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 1. Unplug all other drives and try 2. Hirens boot CD download this and try to reformat/sort out mbr drive 1. Already tried it. Windows dosn´t recognize it so no disk to install windows in 2. What is that? is the pc booting from this and then giving u the option to format the drives? or what? THX for the help guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeno~SPARTA~ Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Windows wouldnt install on my PCIe SSD card, when you are in windows setup at some point you get the option to add drivers, so I put the drivers onto a usb drive and installed them from there, after that I could install windows onto that SSD. Check to see if that is your problem. There must be programs that delete everything on a drive. Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL_n00biachi Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 During setup it will ask you where to install to,if your SSD doesnt show up there is a "load driver" option on the lower left of the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usthomsen~SPARTA~ Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 During setup it will ask you where to install to,if your SSD doesnt show up there is a "load driver" option on the lower left of the screen. Yes that option is there. Just didn´t think that an Intel drive would need a driver for installing. I will try and find the driver and load it via an usb like Zeno suggest. Cheers :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Yes that option is there. Just didn´t think that an Intel drive would need a driver for installing. I will try and find the driver and load it via an usb like Zeno suggest. Cheers :-) Your intel drive is one of a GROUP that has no native support in WINDOWS 7 32 or 64bit. As you didn't state your exact drive. go here: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-320-series.html or here http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/contentlibrary.html?customfacets=!:Intel+Product%2FIntel%C2%AE+Solid+State+Drive+%28Intel%C2%AE+SSD%29%2FIntel%C2%AE+SSD+300+Family%2FIntel%C2%AE+SSD+320+Series download drivers, put them on a USB stick. install windows and add drivers like others say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usthomsen~SPARTA~ Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 Your intel drive is one of a GROUP that has no native support in WINDOWS 7 32 or 64bit. As you didn't state your exact drive. go here: http://www.intel.com...320-series.html or here http://www.intel.com...+SSD+320+Series download drivers, put them on a USB stick. install windows and add drivers like others say. Will try it tonight. Thx alot for the info. Much apriciated Just got a friend to format the disk for me as he has an adpator sata/usb Its called: ssdsa2mh080g1HP 2,5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usthomsen~SPARTA~ Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 Solved!! When i recieved the drive back it was formatted and windows recognized it when installing. Working a tread :-) Thx for the input Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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