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Culprit could have been recent firmware update for the drive. Apparently some drives have "disappeared". They suggested some ways to try to get it back - I tried, and drive did come back. Win 8 installation finished. It hung on the next reboot. After multiple tries, and a "failed"'repair...

I have left a message on the Crucial forum. Will post again when I hear from them. Joe

The original disk in the machine had a second, small recovery partition in addition to the Win7 boot partition. I retained that when I moved to the SSD. When I backed it up, I did a whole disk backup, rather than only the Win partition. I am at work now, away from the drive. When I connected...

I would be very surprised if the win 8 didn't do it. The SSD was functioning perfectly before, and through all the multiple reboots of the Win install until the last one. I saw all the messages about preparing files, all the way through "setting up your software. Joe

More follow up. When I connected the drive to another computer via USB - not recognized. When I connected it via esata, it blocked the other machine from booting. I can't even clear the drive and go back to WIN 7. Looks like Win8 bricked the drive. Thanks, Microsoft! Will let you know if I...

CMOS battery has normal voltage. Trying to boot without CMOS battery produces the. Same results. If I pull the hard disk (expensive SSD!), I can get into bios. Changing from AHCI to ATA mode doesn't help. I can (and did change the boot order, but I don't have a WIN 8 bootable disk or USB. I...

I'll try that. Someone on the other board suggested replacing the CMOS battery. Though I suspect that is not the problem, it should be easy to try. Joe

Well, I left it without power overnight, and removed the coin cell for 30 minutes. Then put it back in and tried again still cannot get to either boot menu or bios setup. Unfortunately, I hadn't shifted boot priority to DVD, so I can't boot from DVD. Will keep trying and looking for...

So I created a whole disk backup. I ran the system check and uninstalled a couple of minor incompatible programs. I disabled my antivirus and ran setup from my desktop. It seemed to complete - multiple reboots, including "preparing" etc. I even saw Win 8 colors a couple of times. Then, it...