TRIM update hosed my Windows 7 install

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Just did the firmware update and it hosed my Windows 7 installation. The updater showed a successful firware update. Initially the computer booted just fine, but once I was within Windows it installed some drivers and asked for a reboot. That's when the trouble started. Now the drive won't boot Windows 7 anymore. I don't know if it's a Dell problem or Intel problem. The Dell BIOS claims a SMART error. I have a Dell XPS 8000.

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I have Vista 64bit SP2, drive was in IDE mode, 1 max allocated partition, aligned. Upgrade went fine (though it took a while and complained about read errors from drive a). But it reported <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <...

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I think it would help Intel if everyone who has flashed their drives went to this thread: /thread/7798?tstart=0 http://communities.intel.com/thread/7798?tstart=0 and left their info about what happend in the somewhat more organized way.

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Got my RMA replacement this morning. Good to be back in business.

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Okay just to update on mine. I had said I was using the Intel Chipset inf drivers. I had installed that but on examining things in device manager everything is indeed using the Microsoft drivers.

All of the drivers list the version as 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)

The SSD itself using Microsoft disk.sys and partmgr.sys.

The SSD is on ATA channel 2 using Microsoft atapi.sys and ataport.sys.

The controller shows as

Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller - 2922

Its driver is Intel 7.0.0.1013 but the driver details show all Microsoft RTM drivers atapi.sys ataport.sys msahci.sys pciidex.sys

The controllers driver is why I had thought it was using the chipset inf drivers I had installed from Intel but apparently that only updated some of the other system devices and not anything related to the ICH9R or drives.

I also verified the partition is perfectly aligned. One other thing - when I first installed the SSD I did not just immediatley install Windows 7 directly to it. I know when that is done Windows 7 makes some other smaller partition and I wanted full use of the drives space. I already had Windows 7 running on the system so I installed the SSD as another drive, booted to the existing Windows 7 and partitioned the SSD within Windows Disk Manager. At that point I rebooted the system, went into BIOS and set the SSD as the boot drive and did a clean install of Windows 7 on the SSD onto the partition I had already created.

Also as I stated in my earlier post - I did NOT change the BIOS to IDE or Legacy mode. I did the flash with it still in AHCI mode and it did work fine for me. As of this morning everything is still running just fine too.

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I had no problems with the update (Windows 7 x64). Can it be possible that success depends on the installed driver in Windows 7? I'm using the Intel AHCI driver and not the Microsoft AHCI driver.