[ade]

long story but been given a 910 mini to see if i could get working

ssd was recognised in bios but trying to install from usb stick i kept getting io errors and ssd not being recognised by xp, vista or win 7 installs so i bought a new super talent 16gb drive

created a new win7 usb and booted it, install went fine until it restarted and was finalising installation and then just hung on a blinking cursor.

restarted a new installation but everytime i get to copying windows files it fails with cant see partition - even though when you get to advanced choices like format, load driver etc it sees the ssd (as does bios)

tried doing an xp install and again i get to the format this drive as ntfs/fat (quick etc) it tries to format but then fails saying cant recognise drive

i cant believe that a brand ssd would fail after 30 minutes ?

[holmes4]

I've seen this same story play out many times in this forum, with the exact same symptoms. It does indeed appear to be a failure in the SSD.

[ade]

ive been building pc's for 15 years - cant believe a brand new ssd would fail after approx 15mins use

[holmes4]

I find it hard to believe too, but I have seen too many reports of this, and when users get a replacement it is fine.

[ade]

so why can i use an elevated cmd prompt (shift f10 from win7 install start page), use diskpart completely fine, clean all, create partitions, run a chkdsk etc but when installing, regardless of the the os it fails? - i dont understand

[holmes4]

Me neither, but you're far from the first to report this. My theory is that it has something to do with the SSD's method of keeping track of available blocks.

[ade]

ok an update - on attempt on win7 install it successfully created a 100mb system partition (then of course went tits up)

using gparted on a usb i can see the 2 partitions and successfully format it to fat32 - formatting to ntfs brought up $mft input/output errors - so i formatted and tried win7

of course win7 says now that it cant run on fat32 so it wants to format it to ntfs - install goes ok until partway into creating the windows folder structure and i get a bunch of corrupt folder errors

going back to a fat32 format ive tried installing xp but on the first restart i get the dreaded hal.dll error

i am really loathe to send the ssd back as faulty as i'm in spain and it came from the uk and i have a feeling that the same will happen again anyway

so has "anyone" ever managed to install xp on fat32 on a 910 mini? if so - how