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OK! So I installed the SSD and now??????????

SandyM

SandyM

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I have finished installing a new OCZ Agility ssd. Got the OS installed without a hitch. It showed as drive c - all is good! Then I hooked my HDD back up and the whole world went to hell! The HDD now shows as drive c and the SSD is drive e. Win 7 is on both drives - it boots sloooooooow! I don't think it is even running off of the ssd. Help! Can any one help - no wait, will anyone help me figure this out. I enabled AHCI! Thought I had done what everyone was telling me to do and now...... I gotta' problem.
 
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1. Take the HDD out.
2. Boot to the SSD, if it wont boot reinstall windows.
3. format the HDD outside the computer.
4. Put the HDD back into the computer. Make sure you do not have the SATA ports they are plugged into.

That should work. There may be an easier way, but this is fail proof.
 
Oh I think I know what's wrong - you enabled AHCI in your bios without doing the registry hack in Windows so that it could sort everything out.

You should set your bios back to IDE mode, then do the registry hack in Windows, then reboot and enable AHCI again. If I had a link to the "hack" I would tell you, but I don't know it off hand. It should come up on google though.
 
SickBeast said:
Oh I think I know what's wrong - you enabled AHCI in your bios without doing the registry hack in Windows so that it could sort everything out.

You should set your bios back to IDE mode, then do the registry hack in Windows, then reboot and enable AHCI again. If I had a link to the "hack" I would tell you, but I don't know it off hand. It should come up on google though.
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I downloaded the hack - if I set bios to ide or ahci it won't boot - will boot only in raid. If I change boot order - make the OCZ first, it won't boot. I keep going back and forth changing them back and forth and the only way the damn thing will work is by not using the ssd at all - could having an OS on both drives cause a problem - Win 7 is on both. I really appreciate you guys time - I feel so stupid when I can't get things to work.
 
Windows 7 does strange things sometimes. It creates these 100mb partitions, and sometimes it puts them on drives where you don't want it to. You've probably got that 100mb partition on your HDD instead of the SSD, so Windows is getting confused. There is a way to get Windows to merge that partition into the main "C drive" partition but I don't know how to do it off the top of my head.

If you want to troubleshoot some more, you could install Linux and see what the Grub bootloader lets you do. Otherwise, you might have to reinstall. Your other option would be to somehow repair your installation using the Windows 7 DVD, but I don't know how to do that.
 
SickBeast said:
Oh I think I know what's wrong - you enabled AHCI in your bios without doing the registry hack in Windows so that it could sort everything out.

You should set your bios back to IDE mode, then do the registry hack in Windows, then reboot and enable AHCI again. If I had a link to the "hack" I would tell you, but I don't know it off hand. It should come up on google though.
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Here is a link for the Registry Hack for AHCI just as a reminder. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2151699

Some things are sort of confusing here. OP, could you go into more detail on how you did the install? Seems to me that the HDD wasn't set to AHCI before you did the installation of W7. Follow what some of the other poster have suggested. I would take the SDD out first and then do the Registry hack on the HDD first as long as "IF" there was an Os ON the HDD. If not well forget that request. Then after you have completed the registry hack, reboot the HDD and go into BIOS to set it to AHCI. Save and reboot. Follow the link above that has the info in it. Seems to me that you should have had a menu pop up @ BOOT due to multiple Os's right from the beginning of all this as you didn't mention WHAT was on the HDD in the first place? so, if you could give us that info, things will be much easier, I hope🙂
 
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