Hi all,
Wonder if anyone can shed any light on a situation I am having.
I have just purchased parts to build a new system for my girlfriend.
Specs:
Mainboard: Intel DH61AG mini-ITX
CPU: Intel Core i3 3220 3.30GHz Ivy Bridge
Memory: 4GB Corsair 1333MHz
SSD: SanDisk 64GB SDSSDP-064G-G25 SATA3
The build went well until trying to install Windows.
When selecting the drive to install windows to it comes up with the following:
Name Total Space Free Space
Disk 0 Unallocated Space 0.0MB 0.0MB
Below is a warning link that says "Windows cannot be installed to this disk" which reads "The selected partition requires at least 5884MB free space" when you click on it. I've tried running diskpart to clean the drive which displayed:
"DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O error. See the System Event Log for more information."
I look into the SEL and there is no mention of this occurrance. I tried to create partition primary which resulted in:
"Virtual Disk Service error: There is not enough usable space for this operation"
I looked in the SATA devices in the BIOS and this was displayed:
SATA Port 0 Sandisk Milpit(0.0GB-3.0Gb/s)
I thought I may have a factory fault in the SSD until I installed the SSD into my own system and to my frustration, it worked.
I unplugged all other drives and successfully partitioned and formatted the SSD before installing Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
I then plugged it back into the other system...same errors being displayed.
The only thing I can think of is that the SATA drivers are not compatible with these SSDs?
I had the BIOS updated before being shipped to me as I am running a 3rd generation i3 processor and by factory this board would not have been able to support a 3rd gen CPU (BIOS needs to be 0036 or higher) so the supplier flashed the BIOS to the most recent release (0105).
I have since re-flashed the BIOS back to 0104 and the same errors occur. The BIOS won't flash back any further (tried 0099 to no avail).
I have also updated the firmware that controls the AHCI controllers and this has had no effect either.
I have done pretty much all I can do and all I can assume is that the controllers onboard the DH61AG are not compatible with this model of SSD?
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance
Andy