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I'm working with a Lenovo Y580 - 59359513. It comes with windows 8 preinstalled, uefi and all that other jazz. I've made my recovery usb drive, I've made my system image. The msata I installed is an m4 msata 256GB CT256M4SSD3. This drive is recognized in the bios. The disc shows in windows 8 install process. This drive formats and partitions in disk management. The 1 TB HDD is removed. I'm contemplating using it in another system possibly. Was originally going to keep it as a storage drive but I realized my ps3 could use the storage upgrade.
After not being able to recover via a lenovo provided recovery solution, I decided to Download en_windows_8_x64_dvd_915440.iso and checked it against the hash SHA-1: 1CE53AD5F60419CF04A715CF3233F247E48BEEC4
I make a DVD and a bootable usb both of which boot just fine. It seems to accept my bios stored key as it doesn't prompt for one. Everything is good until I choose my SSD partition. I get:
"Windows can't be installed on drive 1 partition 4. (Show details)"
partition 4 is the primary partition the installer creates for me when I delete all partitions and have it repartition for me. Showing details gets me:
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."
I've heard of many people booting off of their msata. One person I remember having the same exact model as me. Sata controller is AHCI. Well I disregard and I install anyway. It installs but when it reboots, it goes back to booting to the windows media. My SSD is not listed as a boot device in boot manager. My computer fails to boot even if I remove the install media. I have no clue what to do. What am I missing?
After not being able to recover via a lenovo provided recovery solution, I decided to Download en_windows_8_x64_dvd_915440.iso and checked it against the hash SHA-1: 1CE53AD5F60419CF04A715CF3233F247E48BEEC4
I make a DVD and a bootable usb both of which boot just fine. It seems to accept my bios stored key as it doesn't prompt for one. Everything is good until I choose my SSD partition. I get:
"Windows can't be installed on drive 1 partition 4. (Show details)"
partition 4 is the primary partition the installer creates for me when I delete all partitions and have it repartition for me. Showing details gets me:
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."
I've heard of many people booting off of their msata. One person I remember having the same exact model as me. Sata controller is AHCI. Well I disregard and I install anyway. It installs but when it reboots, it goes back to booting to the windows media. My SSD is not listed as a boot device in boot manager. My computer fails to boot even if I remove the install media. I have no clue what to do. What am I missing?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 OEM
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Lenovo y580