Doesn't show in BIOS?

[saddog5523]

I installed the PCIe SSD and booted the system, installed the drivers, but it will not show up in Windows Explorer or in BIOS. I have the switch on UEFI (to the right), and it is in a full x16 PCIe slot on my Maximus VI Extreme mobo.

[Chino]

1. How many GPU/s are you using?
2. Which slots are you using for your GPU/s?
3. Which slot are you using for your RAIDR?

[saddog5523]

This is a new build, and I don't have any GPU(s) yet. The RAIDR is currently sitting on the PCIe x8 slot (third slot from the top).

[weiwei]

it will not show in BIOS if you selected UEFI mode, did you check disk management? maybe its just not formatted yet?

[saddog5523]

I just checked disk management. It shows up as 111.79GB unallocated drive. I was wanting to transfer everything from my ssd to this. How would I go about doing that? I want to use it for my OS and applications.

I just wanted to say.. I love how much help one can receive from this forum. I consider myself a noob since this is my first build. 😛

[Jim-M4EZ]

saddog5523 wrote:
I just checked disk management.
It shows up as 111.79GB unallocated drive.

What size is your RAIDR ?
... I thought the 240GB was the only version that was out atm ... :confused:

[Deon017]

it is - but you have to create RAID0 in your bios - it will show as 2 x 111GB drives without RAID0 - even if it does not show in your bois because its not SATA it will still show under boot devices -

[Kzoax_spain]

Deon017 wrote:
it is - but you have to create RAID0 in your bios - it will show as 2 x 111GB drives without RAID0 - even if it does not show in your bois because its not SATA it will still show under boot devices -

I read in intel pach sdd data sheet that windows 8 dont permit used trim with raid 0 with sdd disk...

[weiwei]

I think it is because it uses UEFI mode, I see them in BIOS when I switched to Legacy mode though.
@saddog why don't you just copy/paste them? LOL or use ghost instead?

[saddog5523]

Alright.. So I opened disk manager, and it had the drive listed with the appropriate drive size. It was unallocated, so I formatted it to NTFS on drive letter F. It immediately pulled up the autorun box and it popped up in windows explorer. Yay!!! Too bad it was short lived.. Lol. I restarted and booted into BIOS to see if it would show up, it didn't, so I restarted back into Windows. It wasn't showing up in windows explorer anymore. I checked disk manager and it only showed 111.79GB of the 240GB, and it showed that it was unallocated. At this point I'm scratching my head because I thought I had made some headway. I talked to some IT guys I work with and they told me to try installing an OS onto it, and that it should have it's own raid controller on the board. I installed Windows 7, and it still only shows up as 111.79GB. I can't find the other half. :confused: Will someone tell me that I'm making this harder than it should be? 😞 I'm taking it to my work tomorrow to let the IT guys mess with it, though I was hoping you all would have a suggestion or two to try.