I am building a new computer (again) and have bought a Scandisk 120GB SSD and I am going to load windows 8 onto it.
Thats the plan. I got the computer running, through bios, and started to load W8 but it wouldn't start the load, a brief flash of an error
message which is unreadable unless you are an alien.
Ah! i though - the SSD is not formatted - plug it into a cradle and turn on the W7 laptop, the drive is appearing as a 340mb drive which I
accidentally formatted to NTFS, and now shows 3 drives, 2 at 340mb and one at 0mb. All I want is one 120gb drive formatted to NTFS - why am I
struggling?
Having the drive formatted (or even partitioned) should make no difference when you're installing an OS. In fact, you might be better off
plugging it back in the Win 7 PC and deleting all the partitions.
The error message sounds like a driver issue, which would stop the install on to SSD.
I just ran Partition Magic 8, and it show 120gb with no partitions, tried to fomat it in PM8 but it errors out
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Originally posted by Slimy38
Having the drive formatted (or even partitioned) should make no difference when you're installing an OS. In fact, you might be better off plugging it back in the Win 7 PC and deleting all the partitions.
The error message sounds like a driver issue, which would stop the install on to SSD.
The SSD not being formatted will make no difference to starting an install for Win8, it will let you delete and create partitions as part of the install, how far does it get from booting to trying to install win8, as someone said above it could be a driver issue as sometimes you need drivers to do the install in, winXP when the new SATA drives started coming out some machines would blue screen when you tried to install if the sata was in native mode and not compatibility mode unledd you loaded drivers from a floppy disk as part of the initial install.
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Originally posted by chrism
The SSD not being formatted will make no difference to starting an install for Win8, it will let you delete and create partitions as part of the install, how far does it get from booting to trying to install win8, as someone said above it could be a driver issue as sometimes you need drivers to do the install in, winXP when the new SATA drives started coming out some machines would blue screen when you tried to install if the sata was in native mode and not compatibility mode unledd you loaded drivers from a floppy disk as part of the initial install.
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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
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Originally posted by chrism
The SSD not being formatted will make no difference to starting an install for Win8, it will let you delete and create partitions as part of the install, how far does it get from booting to trying to install win8, as someone said above it could be a driver issue as sometimes you need drivers to do the install in, winXP when the new SATA drives started coming out some machines would blue screen when you tried to install if the sata was in native mode and not compatibility mode unledd you loaded drivers from a floppy disk as part of the initial install.
What is happening, is that W8 fails to load on every occasion, and adds a 340mb partition every time, it now just says missing operating system when I try to install, I am guessing there is an attempt limit to installing.
Can you explain this bit about drivers, it is a fresh install, and W8 is giving up hours before I would be installing any drivers, so there are no drivers present except for anything in the DDR3 memory installed from the W8 disk (these should be up to date and up to the job of installing onto a SSD?)
I also have a 1tb formatted drive in the same machine, would I do better to install to a partition and then use the installed W8 to sort the SSD, and then try an install to the SSD?
How come something that is so simple normally be such a pain?
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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
it now just says missing operating system when I try to install, I am guessing there is an attempt limit to installing.
Also, check for BIOS updates on the manufactures website. You might find yours is out of date, even on a brand new board. Some SSDs also have firmware updates available, although I have never had to do this.
My plan with the second 1TB hard drive was to get W8 on a partition, use it to sort the SSD formatting and the disconnect the 1TB and try a fresh
install on the SSD - does that sound like a plan?
Would a more up to date versio0n of partition magic help?
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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
My plan with the second 1TB hard drive was to get W8 on a partition, use it to sort the SSD formatting and the disconnect the 1TB and try a fresh install on the SSD - does that sound like a plan?
Would a more up to date versio0n of partition magic help?
If you have a spare 1TB, have you tried to install W8 on that? If that succeeds, then you have narrowed the problem down to the SSD. Also, depending
on the motherboard, there might be 2 different SATA controllers onboard. Try using the other controller.
[Edited on 21/7/13 by BenTyreman]