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New SSD. Unable to use with AHCI mode.
Sup beautiful people,
My aim is to install Windows 7 64x Home Premium on a new SSD in AHCI mode.
I recently bought an OCZ Arc 100 Sata III SSD to transfer Windows 7 Home Premium OEM to, on a Samsung RV510 laptop.
All possible methods of backing up and restoring, cloning and repairing boot sectors completely failed without any BIOS changes from a perfectly booting Samsung HDD partitioned as MBR booting in AHCI mode with Legacy OS support turned on in BIOS. I would end up with "Operating system not found" and it being impossible to recover the environment and rebuild the BCD with the error "Requested device unavailable" and "No OS files found" with automatic repairing.
If I were to try and install Windows 7 Home Premium with the aforementioned BIOS settings after completely wiping the disk clean it would tell me that:
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."
Installing Windows 7 Home Premium with IDE set and Legacy OS Boot set goes through without any hindrances and OEM OS was activated. I have tried to reset the AHCI mode through the registry with the OS loaded on the SSD and then rebooted and changes BIOS settings back to AHCI mode and I once again face the error "Operating system not found."
In AHCI mode the SSD is not recognised as a bootable device at all however BIOS is picking it up. It makes no sense to me that an SSD with an exact copy of the OS of an HDD will not boot, however the HDD does.
I have done endless amounts of Google research but I think this time it won't be able to teach me and my brain is just absolutely fried right now, so I am hoping some one here might be able to help me. I believe I have recalled correctly all my trials and errors, feel free to ask any questions for clarification.
Spec:
Samsung RV510 Laptop (2011)
Windows 7 Home Premium 64x OEM
Samsung HM500JI HDD
OCZ Arc 100 SSD
Pheonix SecureCore BIOS
BIOS version: 02UC
MICOM version: 02UC
Advanced BIOS Settings:
CPU Power Saving Mode
Intel SpeedStep
EDB
Graphics Memory
Legacy USB Support
Legacy OS Support
AHCI Mode Control
>Native AHCI Mode
Fan Silent Mode
Battery Life Cycle Extension
USB S3 Wake-up
(No security options for EFI mode)
Last edited by JoeStokes; 06 Oct 2015 at 18:24.