SSD and Windows 8 Upgrade problems

[mrhobbeys]

I had much trouble using the cloning software I finally gave up and installed windows 8 onto my HD. Now I have a few strange issues the most important is that my original HD (1TB) is not visible from my windows 8 system.

I also get errors when I try to install different drivers:
Power 4 Gear - Thinks this is not an ASUS Laptop
Instant On - Not supported

(There are 2 others but they dont seem important)

I am most worried about the hard drive as I need the extra storage.

[rewben]

hi mrhobbeys, install ATK package and you should be able to install the rest of ASUS's utilities.

edit: sorry i forgot that the stock HDD is a GPT disk. can you see the stock drive from disk management?

[mrhobbeys]

I am able to access it after putting it in a external enclosure, but I want to have it in my laptop.

[rewben]

ok nice; can you access all the data in the stock drive? if not, is it ok for you to wipe the whole disk?

[Clintlgm]

You should be able to see it in Disk Management if so mark it inactive. You should also be able to accomplish this in an external case. otherwise copy all your data and format it. or use a program like Mini partition wizard to mark it inactive. That should allow Win 8 to see it.

[mrhobbeys]

It seems in the confusion I deleted my data 😞

Here is what I would like to do.
1. Leave the recovery partition.
2. Leave Win 7 and around 200 GB for it
3. Use the remaining space for storage.
4. Dual boot between win 8 and 7

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I think I have figured out how to do 1-3, just not 4 and I don't know till I try if my drive will show as expected when I plug it back in... Yet.

[GottiBoi55]

mrhobbeys wrote:
It seems in the confusion I deleted my data 😞

Here is what I would like to do.
1. Leave the recovery partition.
2. Leave Win 7 and around 200 GB for it
3. Use the remaining space for storage.
4. Dual boot between win 8 and 7

**
I think I have figured out how to do 1-3, just not 4 and I don't know till I try if my drive will show as expected when I plug it back in... Yet.

@newben, he's wanting to dual boot with win7 and Win8!
see number 4

[rewben]

@mrhobbeys, sorry but i am not familiar with the dual boot thing for w7/w8. i think some friends here have a working setup but i'm not sure how they did that.

[mrhobbeys]

I had a lot of trouble until I updated the SSD firmware. As far as dual booting I have not found a solution that works well... Windows 8 seems not to play nice with others.

[xphantsx]

Windows 8 and an SSD is bad at least with a Samsung 840 Pro. Windows 8 is not ready for SSD's yet. My setup uses a Samsung 840 Pro and had half the write speed it was quoted to have while running Windows 8. I wiped it out used Win7 Ultimate again. My read and write speeds are in the ballpark of the quoted rates by doing this.
By the way "why clone a drive ever"? It is a bad practice.