I have a Toshiba U845-S406. It had a Hitachi 465gb and a Sandisk 30gb drive. I assumed there were together on the same piece, but perhaps not.
I had all sorts of untraceable problems, which I figured could be fixed by a new hard drive and fresh W7 install. I bought a Kingston 120gb drive and installed W7. It works and the mysterious error messages have stopped. But there are other issues.
But...
1) on boot it sits for 10 seconds asking me to type control I to enter the configuration settings for the hard drives.
a) Do I want to change the configuration setting? (see 3 below)
b) How do I get rid of that? It adds 10 seconds to the boot time
2) it then goes to a screen for 30 seconds asking me if I want to boot W7 or windows setup (ems enabled). How do I get it to boot W7 without asking?
3) If I do type in control I, it says I have two Raid Volumes.
0 SSDSpace Raid0(Stripe) 128KB strip 11.2GB Normal Yes Bootable
1 cach_vol Raid0(Cache) 128KB strip 18.6GB Disabled No Bootable
And two Physical Devices
0 Kingston SV300S3 111.7GB Non-Raid Disk
1 Sandisk SD5SF203 29.8GB Cache (0,1)
I presume the Kingston is what I installed, and the Sandisk is left over from before.
What is all that Raid0 stuff, and should I change anything?
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I just loaded Partition Wizard.
It shows the Kingston as Disk 1.
As disk two it shows an 11.21 disk, and says it is full. It does not show the 18.6 at all.
Thought that might help.
I had all sorts of untraceable problems, which I figured could be fixed by a new hard drive and fresh W7 install. I bought a Kingston 120gb drive and installed W7. It works and the mysterious error messages have stopped. But there are other issues.
But...
1) on boot it sits for 10 seconds asking me to type control I to enter the configuration settings for the hard drives.
a) Do I want to change the configuration setting? (see 3 below)
b) How do I get rid of that? It adds 10 seconds to the boot time
2) it then goes to a screen for 30 seconds asking me if I want to boot W7 or windows setup (ems enabled). How do I get it to boot W7 without asking?
3) If I do type in control I, it says I have two Raid Volumes.
0 SSDSpace Raid0(Stripe) 128KB strip 11.2GB Normal Yes Bootable
1 cach_vol Raid0(Cache) 128KB strip 18.6GB Disabled No Bootable
And two Physical Devices
0 Kingston SV300S3 111.7GB Non-Raid Disk
1 Sandisk SD5SF203 29.8GB Cache (0,1)
I presume the Kingston is what I installed, and the Sandisk is left over from before.
What is all that Raid0 stuff, and should I change anything?
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I just loaded Partition Wizard.
It shows the Kingston as Disk 1.
As disk two it shows an 11.21 disk, and says it is full. It does not show the 18.6 at all.
Thought that might help.
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