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Guys,

Recently, I have bought a Plextor M5 Pro xtreme 256GB SSD drive and a silverstone ultrabay hard drive caddy, I planned to install Windows 8 into SSD drive house in caddy as bootable drive, but unfortunately, thing does not goes as per expected as I cant seem any setting in BIOS to be able to boot up from the ultrabay, furthermore I realize the caddy does not regconize the SSD drive too, when I booted up into existing OS that running windows 7.. has anyone come across the similar problem? do you have any resolution for it? Your advise is much appreciates..

listlow wrote:Guys,

Recently, I have bought a Plextor M5 Pro xtreme 256GB SSD drive and a silverstone ultrabay hard drive caddy, I planned to install Windows 8 into SSD drive house in caddy as bootable drive, but unfortunately, thing does not goes as per expected as I cant seem any setting in BIOS to be able to boot up from the ultrabay, furthermore I realize the caddy does not regconize the SSD drive too, when I booted up into existing OS that running windows 7.. has anyone come across the similar problem? do you have any resolution for it? Your advise is much appreciates..

You are putting the cart before the horse. You can't boot to a drive that doesn't have anything on it! You should be trying to boot to the usb flash drive or whatever the source of your windows 8 installation is instead. To change boot device, hit F12 after first powering on.

Of course you don't see it in Windows 7. The drive isn't initialized yet. Click start button and type in "Create and format" without the quotes and select the first choice on the menu. That takes you to disk management where you can initialize the drive.

Good luck!

jayton4 wrote:

listlow wrote:Guys,

Recently, I have bought a Plextor M5 Pro xtreme 256GB SSD drive and a silverstone ultrabay hard drive caddy, I planned to install Windows 8 into SSD drive house in caddy as bootable drive, but unfortunately, thing does not goes as per expected as I cant seem any setting in BIOS to be able to boot up from the ultrabay, furthermore I realize the caddy does not regconize the SSD drive too, when I booted up into existing OS that running windows 7.. has anyone come across the similar problem? do you have any resolution for it? Your advise is much appreciates..

You are putting the cart before the horse. You can't boot to a drive that doesn't have anything on it! You should be trying to boot to the usb flash drive or whatever the source of your windows 8 installation is instead. To change boot device, hit F12 after first powering on.

Of course you don't see it in Windows 7. The drive isn't initialized yet. Click start button and type in "Create and format" without the quotes and select the first choice on the menu. That takes you to disk management where you can initialize the drive.

Good luck!

Thank for feedback, I think my question was confuse you and i didnt mention it clearly. Anyway, I have tried what you mentioned to boot to the windows 8 setup but it cant detect the new SSD in the caddy.

Of course, I did check in disk management too but without detect the new SDD in the caddy, how can i be able to initialize the drive??

I hope it can give you a better picture of the problem that I facing now, I dont think it is relate to the disk initialize and new OS installation and it is more to the issue of how to make the caddy work with new SSD drive..

Thank alot..

Yes it does help.

Try the SSD in main drive bay and boot to your Win8 installation media. If the Windows 8 installer can see your SSD, then the caddy is bad.

If it still does not see the SSD, then it is time to get the SSD RMA'd or exchanged from the retailer.

Also, you can try a different known working drive in the caddy to rule it out as the problem.