SSD not recognized by windows

Samuel90 · Aug 2, 2010

I have this force drive of 60 GB from corsair and it's not regonized by my windows 7 system as a ssd,, I don't what to do, need some help

Brink · Aug 2, 2010

Hello Samuel,

I'm not sure what you mean. Looking at your TXT file, it shows your Corsair SSD listed with the proper model number. Where does it not show that it's a SSD drive?

Do you have the latest Intel 9.1.1.1025 chipset driver installed?

Samuel90 · Aug 2, 2010

Brink said:
I'm not sure what you mean. Looking at your TXT file, it shows your Corsair SSD listed with the proper model number. Where does it not show that it's a SSD drive?

Do you have the latest Intel 9.1.1.1025 chipset driver installed?

It doesn't show anywhere, but that's not the problem. The problem is that I'm able to run defrag on it. SSD's are not surposed to be defragged. And no I haven't installed that driver, but isn't that driver supposed for 5,4,3,900 chipsets?

Brink · Aug 2, 2010

You do not have the full model number of your Asus P5Q motherboard, but it will be either a X48 or P48 chipset (Intel 4 series chipset), so it will work for your motherboard and may be able to allow Windows 7 to recognize the SSD better.

Samuel90 · Aug 2, 2010

Well, I can still defrag it,,

Brink · Aug 2, 2010

I had that issue with an older SSD that I use to have, and just had to manually turn off the defrag schedule for it.

Samuel90 · Aug 2, 2010

Brink said:
I had that issue with an older SSD that I use to have, and just had to manually turn off the defrag schedule for it.

How did you TRIM it? Well,, I mean, these drives gets slow if you don't TRIM them
By the way, do you know if indexing isn't needed with ssd?
I did a defrag analyse by mistake on the drive,, do you think it has taken any damage?

Brink · Aug 2, 2010

You would not want to defrag a SSD. Doing so will shorten it's life span.

The newer generation of SSD's have native TRIM support when used with Windows 7. Your SSD shows that it supports TRIM with Windows 7, so it may just be a issue if you didn't have the latest Intel chipset driver above and the latest 9.6.0.1014 Intel AHCI/RAID drivers installed.

Samuel90 · Aug 2, 2010

How about the intel matrix storage manager then? Does this software/driver need to be uninstalled?

Brink · Aug 2, 2010

It should be updated when the other drivers above are installed.

Wishmaster · Aug 2, 2010

Have you ran WEI?

After WEI, the test results will let Windows know more of whats going on. At that point, Defrag will be disabled on drives that are SSDs, and it may also disable Superfetch. I would also turn off the drive indexing on the SSD. It is not needed. But you can leave it on for the spinning drives if you so choose.
(I would turn SF back on though if it were me. The writes it does do are insignificant, and SF still benefits SSDs. RAM is still faster)

Windows Defrag is BAD though. if you wish to defrag a SSd on occasion, only use something like Perfect Disk Consolodate or Disk Keeper Hyperfast. They can help a bit if used in moderation (once or twice a month) and are designed for SSDs.
These are the only 2 Im aware of however that are safe.

TRIM should be supported for the SSd with Win7s default AHCI driver, as well as the newer Intel drivers.

Samuel90 · Aug 2, 2010

Wishmaster said:
Have you ran WEI?

what is that? And where do I find it

Brink · Aug 2, 2010

Here yo go mate. This will show you how to update your WEI score.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/263-windows-experience-index-update-refresh-score.html

Samuel90 · Aug 3, 2010

Hasn't worked, I'm still able to defrag the ssd

Brink · Aug 3, 2010

Samuel,

Did you already update all of the drivers from here?

http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/101495-ssd-not-recognized-windows.html#post876758

Samuel90 · Aug 3, 2010

Yes I've updated the drivers, is that a mistake? Should I have ran this WEI with default win driver first?

Brink · Aug 3, 2010

No, you would have wanted to updated those drivers.

Not sure why Windows 7 didn't automatically turn of Disk Defrag for your SSD then, but you can always just manually turn it off yourself by unchecking the SSD in the Disk Defrag Schedule settings. Plus, not to select it when you defrag the other drives.

Samuel90 · Aug 3, 2010

Okay, but how do I TRIM it,, with programs that wishmaster mentioned?

Brink · Aug 3, 2010

Windows 7 will do the TRIM for you since your SSD supports it in Windows 7. No need to do anything else for TRIM.

Samuel90 · Aug 3, 2010

Okay, so the drive itself will do this automatically when needed? how about the chdsk function in win, is that okay to use with ssd?

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