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Posted onPost created on September 22 2012 17:07 ET by Michael Winks

I have FSX loaded on a SSD - Unfortunately, my windows crashed and I had to reinstall windows. Now it does not recognize my SSD drive. How do I get windows to recognize disk drives? I tried disconnecting and reconnecting both the power and the data from the drive to the board. I have been searching windows help to no avail... any ideas?
Thanks!

Michael Winks

Captain, B737-800

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Posted onPost created on September 23 2012 09:49 ET by Luke Kolin

Are you seeing the drive in the bios setup? If not, I suspect an RMA in your future. What kind of SSD is it?

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Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on September 23 2012 12:44 ET by Michael Winks

Hi Luke.

No, I do not see it in the bios. I actualy have two SSDs, Kingston SSDnow 200 64GB and Petrol OCZ 124GB with FSX on the latter. Both dirves worked fine. Then FSX crashed and caused a corrupt file with Windows. When I reinstalled Windows the drives were gone. Cables are connected and have been reconnected. For RMA do I need to purchase a registry fixer such as WinZip's Register Optimizer? Cost is $29.95...

Thanks for any help you can share...

Michael Winks

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Posted onPost created on September 23 2012 13:08 ET by Michael Brown

Michael, RMA stands for Return Merchandise Authorization....in other words you return the SSD and then the manufacturer ships you a new one. Is the SSD still under warranty? Did you keep your receipts? What does a register optimizer have to do with this?? confused

Something else, you said FSX crashed and corrupted Windows?? ...that doesn't make sense. How did you come to that conclusion?

Also, after reinstalling Windows did you then reinstall your motherboard drivers?

Lastly, after reinstalling Windows and the drivers did you run Windows update to install all the patches? You'll probably have to run Windows update several times as some patches require earlier ones to install first.

Michael Brown (DVA3196)

Posted onPost created on September 23 2012 13:32 ET by Luke Kolin

If you have two SSDs and both are not recognized in the BIOS, I would try disconnecting them both and reconnect them one at a time. I suspect one is bad, but I doubt that both are.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on September 28 2012 07:48 ET by Michael Winks

Thanks guys. It turns out that the OCZ SSD is bad and affected the other drives until disconnected. The vendor approved the RMA.

Regarding the Windows reinstall, too frequently either FSX will crash and requre a hard reboot -- or -- I am having this strange issue with my monitoring going black (too sleep) while running FSX. Sometimes it comes back, other times I have to do a hard reboot. The last time, I did this Windows would not come up - I did not have a back up to go to so I had to reinstall. I am still not sure what causes the screen blackout - it seems to happen to my back up monitor as well. PC still running, etc.

Thanks

Michael Winks

Captain, B737-800

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