Under Device Manager->Disk Drives I see only the HDD. and reboot, in the Device Manager, I still see IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, and Standard SATA AHCI Controller under it.
I did go down the series of steps you suggested and at 2.2.4, I get Standard SATA AHCI Controller along with the Intel (R) etc. However in my case, under the Device Manager->IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, I see Intel (R) 7 series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller. I really hope what I am doing is correct. Thanks JK for the idea (http /.uk/asus-ux32a-not-detecting-ssd/#comment-5350) My HDD had an entry on drop down list named "Children" with text: "IDE\DiskINTEL_SSDSC2.", (I have replaced stock HDD with SSD) that tells You a model of Your curent drive.Ģ.4 Disable the iSSD (ATA Chanel 1 in my case) To determine what is on what chanel go to Chanel Properties and select Details tab. In my case ATA Chanel 0 was a HDD and ATA Chanel 1 was an iSSD.
There are 2 actual ways to solve this problem:ġ.Unsolder it ( DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!) (http //threads/ux32vd-issd-not-detected.679687/page-10#post-9627403)Ģ.1 Go to Device Manager->IDE ATA/ATAPI controllersĢ.2 Replace Intel Rapid Storage driver with standart Windows driver (Standart ACHI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller)Ģ.2.4 Select "Standart ACHI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller" from compatable drivers listĢ.3 Go to Device Manager->IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers again and locate 2 entries: ATA Chanel 0 and ATA Chanel 1. This problem is caused by built-in-motherboard iSDD If the notebook keeps working like it is now, who cares about the SSD, except that it's one of the main selling points so I am very curious to hear if anyone has any comments. I'm still waiting for a second reply from ASUS (it's out of warranty) after getting a long cut and pasted message about going back to factory default state and losing everything. While I'm totally puzzled, I fear touching anything at all will hex it, so I don't dare make changes. The SSD is working as it should and it's true that you should NOT see the SSD listed anywhere
The SSD is bad and now that the controller isn't trying to read it, things are working.ī. Now the boot time in about one minute and shutdown is 18 seconds!Ī. SO I set things back the way they were and again, no SSD visible anywhere, but SURPRISE! It's hard to keep straight what BIOS options etc you went through.
You know how it is when you spend four days trying to figure this out. It still complained about an HFS partition not mounted and no creation of partitions. I tried ECCMD.exe to create a partition and DISKPART as well, selecting disk 1 and doing a CLEAN. I installed and uninstalled the Intel Rapid Tech thing twice, turned the Express cache thing on and off a couple of times. However, DISKPART took forever to list the two and the disk manager app didn't display anything, while device manager DID. After a long sequence of seeing only one disk with "LIST DISK", one in Device Manager and one in BIOS, suddenly I was seeing the 24GB SSD in all those places. After messing with several elements like DISKPART, Express, Intel Rapid, etc. I did NOT see the SSD in BIOS or in Windows. When I finally looked at it, it was 6-10 minutes to boot and sometimes didn't appear to shut off at all. Here's my question:įor months the laptop (not mine, my wife's, Windows 8) was slow to boot and shutdown. I found several posts all over about how the drives and the motherboards of this laptop had problems.