topic Re: Can't use my SSD drive as cache in Solid State Drives (NAND)

Can't use my SSD drive as cache

idata — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:33:56 GMT

Hi there,

I bought a new Lenovo u410 and installed windows 8 pro on it.

I have an HDD 750gb primary drive and a 32GB SSD which I want to use him as a cache drive.

My BIOS configuration is set on RAID, I can see the SSD drive in the Intel Rapid Storage GUI in windows,

But the accelerate button is not thereץ

What can I do??

Thanks,

Yoav

Re: Can't use my SSD drive as cache

idata — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:56:14 GMT

Anyone?

Re: Can't use my SSD drive as cache

idata — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:03:59 GMT

Does your HDD have a recovery volume on it? That is common with laptops. If so, the recovery volume does not allow acceleration/caching.

If you run the IRST GUI, and click on Help, you'll find an entry about Accelerating the system, which may help you.

Re: Can't use my SSD drive as cache

idata — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:43:08 GMT

Hey,

My HDD had a recovery partition. I deleted it and reinstall the Raid storage driver again, but......

The acceleration button is still missing...

Re: Can't use my SSD drive as cache

idata — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:37:59 GMT

I was able to accelerate my notebook hdd after deleting/toggling a second NTFS-partition which wasn't a recovery partition.

Re: Can't use my SSD drive as cache

idata — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:40:01 GMT

But i need my second hdd partition....

Is there any other option??

Re: Can't use my SSD drive as cache

idata — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:18:56 GMT

I would boot with a Linux CD or DVD to toggle the second NTFS partition from 7 (NTFS) to 83 (Linux), reboot and check whether the acceleration is working then or not. After the test you can re-toggle it back to 7. That's the way I did it.

Re: Can't use my SSD drive as cache

idata — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:14:14 GMT

I've run into a similar problem.

Try this:

Make sure you don't have any data that you want on your SSD cause it's going to get wiped.

hit windows-key+R

type in DISKPART

(or just open CMD and type DISKPART at command line)

Type LIST DISK

Look at the output and select your SSD like so (if it's disk 1)

SELECT DISK 1

Then type:

CLEAR

and

EXIT

Restart the ISRT manager and you should now hopefully see the accelerate tab.

Re: Can't use my SSD drive as cache

idata — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:22:45 GMT

It worked!!!

It's clean and not clear, but you're great...

Thanks