New SSD. Unable to use with AHCI mode.

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  1. Posts : 20
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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.
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  2. Posts : 20
    Windows 10 Professional
    Thread Starter
       #2

    Any one got any ideas at all? Any theories? Any suggestions?

    I just tried a BIOS update which had no affect. This is killing me because it makes no sense what so ever!
    Last edited by JoeStokes; 08 Oct 2015 at 11:59.
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  3. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #3

    Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
    Sorry for the late response please review this if you haven't already
    Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Boot

    Doesn't make much sense to me even on legacy bios ahci is the default bios setting so you shouldn't have to change anything :/
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  4. Posts : 20
    Windows 10 Professional
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Thanks.
    I'm afraid I have already looked through that.
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  5. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #5

    Hi,
    Can you post some images of the bios settings Secure boot and csm ?
    Also disable Fast boot and test as well.
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  6. Posts : 20
    Windows 10 Professional
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Advanced:


    Security:


    Boot:



    As you can see this is an extremely basic BIOS on a 2011(?) laptop. Not an awful lot to configure. No fast boot option, no secure boot.
    Last edited by JoeStokes; 11 Oct 2015 at 11:45.
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  7. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #7

    Interesting no fast boot option shown,
    The ssd might not be marked as active ?
    Have you used diskpart
    Partition - Mark as Active
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  8. Posts : 20
    Windows 10 Professional
    Thread Starter
       #8

    Yep I have done that. Not what is causing the issue though as I installed Windows 7 onto it in IDE mode, then used registry changes (after checking it boots fine) to change the OS to AHCI, then changed the BIOS to AHCI and then got the error "No operating system found"
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  9. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #9

    Not sure how to fix the ide thing looks like might be the ultimate problem
    AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista
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  10. Posts : 20
    Windows 10 Professional
    Thread Starter
       #10

    Yeah that is the thread I read through when changing to AHCI in the OS. I don't know how to fix this either and it hurts my brain trying to logically put all this information together to something that makes sense.
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