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Did I just destroy a new 500gb SSD?...

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dotdude

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One day old drive - was reinstalling Win8 final, deleted the 2 partitions (big mistake - small one said essential files but I figured I should delete since it's a full wipe). Created new partition, and now when I try to install:

"We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information please view the setup log files."

What the hell.. Formatting, deleting, recreating does nothing. What the hell do I do now? 🙁 Help pls this is so urgent - I need this machine for work!
 
You probably have UEFI boot enabled in the BIOS

Go into BIOS, disable UEFI boot and you're good to go and partition as you wish.

That UEFI boot is crap is it requires you to create a GPT disk partition which is incompatible with many drive imaging programs anyway. That's the first thing I did on my laptop as I was running through many problems like you

1) Reboot your Notebook then press F2 repeatedly to get into the BIOS menu
2) Go to the Boot tab then disable UEFI Boot

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You may have to load your MB's disk/raid controller driver before Windows recognizes your SSD drive.
 
Bacstar said:
You may have to load your MB's disk/raid controller driver before Windows recognizes your SSD drive.
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Well it does show the drive, let's me delete/create partitions and format... Just not install the OS. 🙁

Think it could still be that? If so, where do I get that for Alienware M17X R2 with i7-740QM?

Thanks guys, really hoping I'll be able to get this fixed today. *crosses fingers*
 
dotdude said:
Well it does show the drive, let's me delete/create partitions and format... Just not install the OS. 🙁

Think it could still be that? If so, where do I get that for Alienware M17X R2 with i7-740QM?

Thanks guys, really hoping I'll be able to get this fixed today. *crosses fingers*
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If you had a sata/raid controller issue you wouldn't even see the SSD. Here's an excellent guide from overclock.net that should get you squared away : Sean's Windows 8 Install & Optimization Guide for SSDs & HDDs


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