New SSD Drive

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by keyser318, Oct 2, 2015.

  1. keyser318

    keyser318 Private First Class

    Hello Everyone,

    I have a Toshiba laptop that just had the hard drive crash. I bought a new SSD Drive. When I try to install windows 7 to it it appears to be recognized in bios. But when I try to install windows it shows 0 total size and 0 free space. I don't know how to get it to recognize the drive so that I can install windows to it. Can anyone help?

    Thanks!
     
    keyser318, Oct 2, 2015
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  2. keyser318

    keyser318 Private First Class

    Also I have a toshiba satellite C875D-S7225. The SSD Drive is a patriot pyro 240GB drive. I have tried formatting and cleaning the drive through the cmd line in windows installation disk. But either I am not doing it right or using the wrong command.
     
    keyser318, Oct 2, 2015
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  3. keyser318

    keyser318 Private First Class

    I have seen a few things that talk about initializing the drive using windows but since I don't have windows and the ability to add a second drive in a laptop how can I do this?
     
    keyser318, Oct 2, 2015
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  4. the mekanic

    the mekanic Major Mekanical Geek

    Fair warning that Toshiba machines are infamous for not being compatible with more than a few types of SSD.

    You can try using the commands outlined here to format a drive with NTFS via a command prompt:

    https://www.techhack.co.uk/2011/03/31/format-a-hard-drive-with-command-prompt/


    If you do end up having to get a mechanical drive, pick up one that has at least a 64MB cache or better.
     
    Last edited: Oct 3, 2015
    the mekanic, Oct 3, 2015
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  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    When you boot to the Windows install disk, and I hope that you get the Windows 7 installer screens show? then choose a custom or load driver option and have the RAID driver on a USB (fat32 formatted) pen and navigate to that and install the driver as in some instances its needed

    Toshiba raid driver HERE and unzip and pop on a USB pen.

    You may in the BIOS need to choose RAID even though you are not running a RAID array.
     
    DavidGP, Oct 3, 2015
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