Kingston SSDNow V300 Drivers

[LeviThePie]

I am doing a clean install of Windows 7 on my 120GB SSDNow V300 and it requires drivers to install Windows, but I can not find the drivers anywhere. Could someone please tell me where to download the drivers? Any and all help will be appreciated.

 

[ThatVietGuy]

It actually doesn't need drivers...

It's just like any hard drive - the Windows installation has enough loaded that it should recognize the drive.

 

[kingstonhq]

Hi LeviThePie,
I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support, here to offer our assistance. The drivers you would need would actually be the SATA chipset drivers for your motherboard. You can usually find these in the Download section of the support page for your system. Sometimes this can happen because the Windows disk wants the drive to be initialized first. If you have another computer you have plug the drive in and format it in Disk Management. If not you can go into command prompt when you get to that point of the installation and press Shift+F10 to bring up a command prompt windows and enter the following Commands:
Diskpart
Select Disk 0
Clean
Create Partition Primary Align=1024
Format Quick FS=NTFS
List Partition
Active
Exit

The last command will close out command prompt then reboot your system and the drive should appear at that step once you get to it. Make sure the SSD is the only disk drive installed in the system otherwise it could wipe a different drive. Also, sometimes Windows just wants the disk it is installed to in the SATA 0 or 1 port whichever is first for it to detect it for installation. For further assistance, please call us at 1-800-435-0640 (USA and Canada only) M - F 6am - 6pm PT and I or another available technician will assist you.

Thank you for being part of the Kingston family.