Windows 7 installer won't see SSD.

Renzatic on 5/12/2010 at 23:56

Man, you don't ever get any breaks, do you? :P

Okay, never having seen that error before puts me at a disadvantage. But taking an educated guess here, it almost seems that your backup discs set the restore partition to use the entire drive. Hence the reason why you're only seeing one partition. It might use some nonstandard something or other that's causing Gparted to look at it crossed eyed, and can't do anything with it directly.

But the thing that confuses me is that Windows is seeing both a C: and an X:. Gparted should be seeing that as well. But it's not...so...I guess we'll both be having to hit up Google.

I would say that it'd probably be safe to just delete the entire partition off that drive and continue from there. I've never heard of partition errors completely killing a drive before (though errors like this are usually indicative of a bad drive), so you're probably not risking much from wiping the drive and moving on.

Don't quote me on that, though. I'll see what I can dig up.

Edit: Yeah, creating a new MS-DOS partition table will wipe the entire drive and start it fresh. Basically it does the same thing as deleting individual partitions manually, but in one fell swoop.

Ostriig on 6/12/2010 at 01:25

Yes! That solved it, new partition table and the drive could be selected for installation. In retrospect, it might've been either been an issue with restoring the service partition on a previously unformatted drive, or maybe just a bug in the software, but either way I did not reinstall AI Recovery from the disc. Just finished installing Windows and the main drivers and utilities. Now I can move on to actually setting up the laptop for myself.

Thanks, all three of you! Huge help! And Renz, you're golden, it's the n'th time you've helped me out with this business of getting a new laptop, gotta buy you a beer if I'm ever in your neck of the woods.

Renzatic on 6/12/2010 at 08:37

Quote Posted by Ostriig

gotta buy you a beer if I'm ever in your neck of the woods.

I'm gonna hold you to that. :mad:

And hey, glad to know you finally got the damn thing working. :thumb:

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Gparted comes as it's own app you burn and boot with. Ubuntu isn't needed.

I know. But since I've never used the standalone boot disc myself, I can't really recommend it. Though it's more than likely exactly the same, I try to stick with what I know and how I know it when recommending stuff.

CaptSyn on 7/12/2010 at 00:54

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I can dig that.