Windows 10 install don't recognize SSD
Sebastian Wright 
I have a problem with a SSD (Crucial BX100) bought last week and Windows 10 install.
When I try to install Windows 10, the installation software don't recognize my SSD, I have a same windows as this one :
I can see the SSD from the BIOS without any trouble.
I also tried two different things : Without changing anything in the configuration of the computer I tried to install a Windows 8.1 instead of a Windows 10, I didn't had any trouble, the install software saw my SSD and I could succesfully install Windows 8.1, so my SSD is correctly plugged to the motherboard and its BIOS configuration is ok.
I tried also to put the SSD on another computer and install Windows 10 on it, it worked without any issue, so my bootable Windows 10 key is ok too.
So, what could prevents me from installing Windows 10 especially on this computer particularly ?
The motherboard is an ASROCK AliveSATA2-GLAN if it can be useful.
EDIT : I tried what as suggested by Keltari and joro, I downloaded drivers from the link of Keltari and also from the motherboard website and tried to load them during Windows installation, and it didn't worked, only one of these drivers was recognized by Windows installer as a compatible driver but id didn't worked.
In his comment, qasdfdsaq spoke about the different SATA connectors of the motherboard. I have 4 SATA connector on my motherboard (2 * JMB363 and 2 * VT8237A) .I was previously using the JMB363 SATA controller (a SATA 2 controller), I tried to use the other one (a SATA 1 controller) and it worked, I succeed to install Windows 10. But I have now two problems :
I tried to install the JMB363 driver (from Windows 10, not from Windows installer), and it doesn't work, so I can't use the JMB363 SATA controller again, so my SSD works on a SATA 1 controller...
The network driver is missing and I can't install the driver from the motherboard website (the driver's installer software say my material isn't compatible).
8 Answers
Windows 10 does not have the driver for the SATA controller. You can download the driver here. Unzip that to a USB stick and when you click "Load Driver" select the appropriate driver and you should be good to go.
2You need drivers for the SATA controller, not for SSD. Check AsRock site for them.
0This worked for me
- Download the Windows 10 installation files.
- Create a Windows 10 bootable media.
- Boot your computer with the bootable media
- Click the Repair your computer
- Click Troubleshoot. Then click Advanced Options. Then click Command Prompt
Type the following commands to fix the mbr
a. Bootrec /fixMbr
b. Bootrec /fixBoot
c. Bootrec /ScanOS
d. Bootrec /RebuildBcd
More here -
1I had similar problem with Crucial BX330 on ASUS A88XM-Plus this week.
I have a multi boot win10/ubuntu system and when i installed SSD as secondary drive, then win10 and BIOS (!) could not recognize the new SSD but ubuntu could. After Bios upgrade, SATA drivers for win10 nothing changed. When i checked ubuntu log i saw that SATA link 6.0 Gbps failed for this drive and finally SSD connected with 3.0 Gbps link. So I changed BIOS SATA configuration to 3.0 Gbps and after that win10 can see the disk (bios also).
Try to slow down the SATA speed or replace components
1I tried many of the things listed here on the old HP Pavilion P6000 with AMD chipset I was trying to get going. In the end, it was as simple as going into the BIOS and switching the SATA mode from RAID to AHCI.
new ssd comes with fat system, search the web for disk formatting apps like hpformat, format it to ntfs or fat32 system and you should be good to go! That atleast worked for me..
just head over to your machines manufacturing page and download the paticular storage controller required and put it on the bootable USB with windows (use the load driver option)
1What works for me was to format ssd into fat32 instead of NTFS. I used Gparted iso to format it in fat32 and then finnaly win10 instaler was able to see my new ssd :)
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