ssd is trying my patience

[jarodatkinson]

Hey All,

I have two ocz vertex 3 60gb ssd's that I pulled out of an old system. They were running in a raid setup together. I've been have intermittent boot issues, so as per advice here, I split them up yesterday. That is where the fun ensued....

First thing.... leave just one plugged in and install new windows right? Wrong... works fine until allocating a drive.... Windows doesn't accept something about the disk format or setup. Try the other ssd... same thing...

So I try to format the disk in windows... It doesn't recognise the ssd. Go to initialize the drive and assign a drive letter in disk management. Right click on the disk gives no options except create simple disk...on both disks...

O.k., I'll download the ocz ssd tool and wipe the disk and install the latest firmware right? Does nothing to change the detectability of either disk...

Fine, I'm angry by now, so I download EaseUS partion master. Happy days... It see the disk, formats a partion into ntsc and I'm right to go... so I load into other pc, start installing windows, get to assign a drive... It wants the disk in gbp instead of mbr

FINE you #$^%, the EaseUS software offered me a free go at the pro version that allows me to change mbr to gbp. So I do that. It does nothing. I'm still bounced by windows install at the drive allocation stage.



So, given that's 8 hours I'm not getting back, and have achieved less than zero by now, given I used to have a working computer, I'm well and truly ready to smash both these things into little pieces by now.....


Does anyone know what could be the problem here. The only possible thing I can think it even might be, is that originally these two ssd's were sold as a pigeon pair from the factory or some crazy thing? I literally have no idea why they didn't just work at step one....

Thanks...

 

[popatim]

At what step dies it fail when installing windows?
If you're just not seeing it listed in the 'Where to install Windows to' screen then cllick the 'Drive Options' link in the lower right of that window and it should show there. I always delete whatever partitions are shown, all of them, and then select the emptry drive and click Next. Windows does the rest

If needed you can post links to images on a hosting site, such as imgur, and link to them here.

Thank you.

 

[jarodatkinson]

O.k.... your installing windows.... you get to the choice of automatic or custom install. Choose custom.... a couple of choices later it asks which drive you want to install windows on. That is what I am talking about there...

 

[jarodatkinson]

Just fyi... It has always detected the drives at that point, it just wont load windows onto either of them, no matter what I do.....

 

[USAFRet]

How to do a CLEAN installation of Windows 10

Section II, Step 6 & 7 speak directly to deleting whatever is currently on that drive and starting fresh.

 

[jarodatkinson]

USAFRet, you are gonna laugh.....

Deepcool was the one who advised me to split the drives

He was also nice enough to link me that install guide, which I appreciated And read.

I then obviously didn't do what he said

I spent from 6pm untill after 1am trying to fix this..

It is now installing windows just fine.... I just didn't delete all the partitons to make a single drive

Lets just say I'm a moron who can't follow simple instructions, and leave it at that...

Thanks so much for the help... who knows how much longer I would have kept being stupid without your assistance....