No drive available - Windows 7 installation
OK, here's a good one. I bought an SSD to install into my new ASUS G73JH to accompany the 500GB OEM drive. I tried copying the system image from the OEM drive to the SSD and then using system restore to finish the process I got a BSOD (classpnp.sys) and went into auto reboot.***
Here's where it gets interesting. No drives detected during reboot. None! Not even the OEM. I bust out my trusty windows 7 disk and no drives available. I can see both drives in BIOS, I've even upated BIOS. I used a USB adapter to make sure the drives were still ok and they're totally fine, I can format, read and write when using the usb interface. So, I can't see either drive in any windows environment except for diskpart. Drives won't install in AHCI or IDE modes. I attempted to do a startup repair and suddenly my OEM drive is wiped out. Still works, no data. Lame. I've formatted and partitioned both drives using the USB adapter on other systems but windows still won't let me "see" the SSD. I don't want to install on the OEM drive because I'd like to recover my data.
I've been on the phone with geeksquad (useless) and ASUS. Most recently with windows - they seem totally bewildered. If anyone has any ideas please send them my way! Thanks!
Andy