Help! The SATA ports running off my chipset's storage controller don't work

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2 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

So bios shows device plugged into intel sata port? This verifies, the  controller is working.

Yeah, however clearly not working properly.

[NumLock21]

17 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

Yeah, however clearly not working properly.

Connect your new SSD into the Intel SATA port and reinstall the OS. Have you done that yet. If not, then do it.

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24 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Connect your new SSD into the Intel SATA port and reinstall the OS. Have you done that yet. If not, then do it.

I tried. The Windows Install Media gives me an error saying "Windows cannot be installed on this drive". Don't remember exact wording of the rest but it talked about how my motherboard may not support booting from this drive, and that I should check to make sure the controller is enabled.

[NumLock21]

4 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

I tried. The Windows Install Media gives me an error saying "Windows cannot be installed on this drive". Don't remember exact wording of the rest but it talked about how my motherboard may not support booting from this drive, and that I should check to make sure the controller is enabled.

During Windows setup, can it see your SSD? If yes, then try it on SATA port 0. With some boards, Windows setup tends to be picky. Now if your SSD was some how formatted as GPT, you'll need to boot the windows setup as UEFI.

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Just now, NumLock21 said:

During Windows setup, can it see your SSD? If yes, then try it on SATA port 0. With some boards, Windows setup tends to be picky. Now if your SSD was some how formatted as GPT, you'll need to boot the windows setup as UEFI.

I can see the SSD in setup just like I can in BIOS. I tried it in all 6 Intel ports including 0 and got the same error message. It actually was formatted as GPT, but I converted it to MBR and still had this other problem.

[NumLock21]

4 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

I can see the SSD in setup just like I can in BIOS. I tried it in all 6 Intel ports including 0 and got the same error message. It actually was formatted as GPT, but I converted it to MBR and still had this other problem.

You will need to remove the entire partition of your SSD. To do that, boot with your OS setup and go to command prompt. Then do a diskpart, select your SSD drive, and type clean. Make sure you don't wipe out your windows usb boot drive or any other drives that's attached to it.

When complete restart system and run setup again.

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Just now, NumLock21 said:

You will need to remove the entire partition of your SSD. To do that, boot with your OS setup and go to command prompt. Then do a diskpart, select your SSD drive, and type clean. Make sure you don't wipe out your windows usb boot drive or any other drives that's attached to it.

That's what I did. I cleaned and then converted to MBR. I've already got Windows installed on the SSD, just with it running through one of the ASMedia ports.

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Just now, Spork829 said:

That's what I did. I cleaned and then converted to MBR. I've already got Windows installed on the SSD, just with it running through one of the ASMedia ports.

Can you repeat what you did, and this time with the Intel SATA port?

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Just now, NumLock21 said:

Can you repeat what you did, and this time with the Intel SATA port?

When I do, I get the other error telling me that something's up with the controller and Windows can't be installed on the drive.

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11 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

When I do, I get the other error telling me that something's up with the controller and Windows can't be installed on the drive.

Okay then, it's a possibility that your Intel SATA ports are faulty, but it's not 100% confirmed because I've seen the same error you have on different systems and none of them are the SATA port themselves. There are PCIe to SATA adapter cards, to add some extra SATA ports for your computer.

 

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=pcie+to+sata+controller+card&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Apcie+to+sata+controller+card

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Just now, NumLock21 said:

Okay then, it's a possibility that your Intel SATA ports are faulty, but it's not 100% confirmed because I've seen the same error you have on different systems and none of them is the SATA port themselves. There are PCIe to SATA adapter cards, to add some extra SATA ports for your computer.

 

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=pcie+to+sata+controller+card&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Apcie+to+sata+controller+card

Yeah, I'll probably just pick one of those cards for cheap and be done with it.