Intel 535 SSD Device drivers for Windows Vista

[Gthas]

I tried to install the Intel data migration software to migrate data from my old HDD to Intel 535 SSD. But it so happened that my windows vista does not detect the ssd for the installation to complete. Looks like the device driver for 535 SSD is different form the regular device drivers that vista has. Can someone suggest on how i could get over this hurdle. Where i could find the device driver for the Intel 535 SSD for windows VISTA. thanks in advance.

[Gthas]

Hi Jonathan,

I doubt it is usb issue but still i tried switching the USB and do not see any go ahead. Will try contacting the support. thanks.

Regards,

Gautham

[IOsma1]

Well I'm having the same problem installing Windows 7 with the same drive (535 Series 240Gb)... If I disable AHCI settings at my BIOS (Which basically turns the drives in IDE), then the SSD shows up at the Windows 7 setup (Weird for a relatively recent device) If you go on It will actually let you install Windows 7 BUT the performance of the driver is totally random... so at the end, as you, I have not been able to make it run as expected.

I wonder how a company such as Intel can't just simply SHARE the drivers for their devices to run properly... "Intel's data migration sw" just won't help if you are basically building a new setup as I am.

Gautham. I saw that a guy fixed this issue formatting the drive (plugin it via USB) as NTFS an then running the installer again.

Hope this helps

[Gthas]

Hi Osma,

I tried to format the SSD for NTFS and mapped it to a drive and i can see the SSD. The only thing i can do is use it as an External Hard drive. I had contacted the Intel support and they gave some other alternatives:

"If IDMS does not work then you might try one of these other (free) disk cloning tools:

Backupper: http://www.backup-utility.com/download.html http://www.backup-utility.com/download.html

MiniTool Partition Wizard:

http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

EaseUS ToDo Backup Free: http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/ http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

HDClone: http://www.miray.de/download/sat.hdclone.html http://www.miray.de/download/sat.hdclone.html

Clonezilla: http://clonezilla.org/downloads/download.php?branch=stable http://clonezilla.org/downloads/download.php?branch=stable

Note: Intel supplies these links as a courtesy to our customers and does not endorse these tools or links over any other options. The customerassumes full responsibility for proper use of these tools.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/xps-m1530/drivers http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/xps-m1530/drivers

The information given shows a normal behavior of your SSD.However we can see that in Device manager > other devices, you get a yellow triangle for your Base System Device which in most cases it refers to your chipset driver, it would be a good idea to review that with your OEM."

Hope the above info helps

>> I wonder how a company such as Intel can't just simply SHARE the drivers for their devices to run properly... "Intel's data migration sw" just won't help if you are basically building a new setup as I am.

I totally agree with you. the whole point of buying Intel SSD is because it was projected in some of the youtube videos that data migtration is supported, else i would have gone in for a less expensive SSD. Really disappointed.

Regards,

Gautham

[jbenavides]

Hello,

We understand this situation can be confusing, so I would like to summarize some of the information about this:

- SATA SSD's do not require drivers, they are raw storage devices that communicate directly with the storage controller. The storage adapter does require drivers, normally built-in the OS, or provided by the PC manufacturer.

- Intel® Data Migration Software is a straight-forward tool that allows users to clone drives. Since it is a propietary tool, it requires one of the drives to be an Intel® SSD. We have noticed that some systems do not pass the drive's identification; when this happens, the SSD is detected as a generic device and IDMS does not allow the migration.

- There are some workarounds that may work, like trying the main SATA ports in the computer (source and target connected to contiguous ports), using a different USB port, different USB-SATA adapter, updating BIOS. Also, you may try the bootable media method of IDMS instead of the Windows® application.

- If the Migration process does not complete after trying these actions, please http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/contactsupport Contact Support to engage a support agent, we will be glad to provide further assistance and recommendations.

[SBabi]

Jonathan - Can you please explain how to go about creating bootable media migration method when the Intel 535 SSD is only recognized as generic USB drive? From reading the Migration user guide, on page 12, I see this that seems to indicate it cannot be done:

"If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Intel Data Migration Software installation, you will not be able to use this feature. "

From that, I assume one must first install the Data Migration Software, but that fails when the SSD is not recognized as Intel.