Installing Win 7 on a Vertex

Master_Pain

Master_Pain

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I just got a 60gb Vertex and am trying to install Win 7 Pro on it. It installs, reboots then hangs on the "Starting Windows" screen.

My system is in my signature. I disconnected my raptors in raid, fired it up in raid mode still since I will still be using them in raid, installed Windows, reboots, then hangs. Should I not disconnect the Raptors? Or should I disconnect them and run the motherboard in Native IDE or AHCI mode?
 
It's hanging due to raid I would imagine. I had the same issue on another PC but it would show win screen then reboot over and over.

Run ACHI if you can, then do RAID separate/after.
 
Ya, I let it go all night, it eventually just turned off I think, or blue screened then turned off.
 
Well, now my motherboard won't recognize it and Windows 7 on my previous installation doesn't recognize it anymore. I think it may be fubarred. I was formatting it in Win 7 and it errored, disappeared from My Computer, and now my motherboard won't even recognize it.
 
v1.5 firmare? Did you flash the drive yourself? Look on the OCZ forums if so.
 
So if you read the forums, there are tons of issues with drives getting bricked during the v1.5 flash. There is also some intelligence there regarding how not to do it. I flashed 1.5 early on and bricked a Vertex too. When new firmware revs come out with SSD's it pays to wait and read of reports of issues and ways around them. Most of the current big controller vendors have had issues not just Indilinx. Intel had some with their first TRIM firmware, Crucial had an issue. Depending on who you believe the JMicron jitters were partially due to poor firmware which is why the Toshiba "branded" JMicron controller did a bit better in that department.

It is a well known enough of a problem that I was able to guess that you flashed it from what you had described.
 
good news is that OCZs replacement warranty is ridiculously good. They ship a new drive as soon as they receive yours, and you can track the status online.
 
I just had to go through this on an Agility that I flashed to 1.5. Was working fine for a bit then during a file copy it completely died. RMA was okay, took a while though as somehow my drive was shipped out of Taiwan even though I sent my replacement to San Jose.

Time to install Win7 again this weekend...
 
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