
It still complained about an HFS partition not mounted and no creation of partitions. I tried ECCMD.exe to create a partition and DISKPART as well, selecting disk 1 and doing a CLEAN. I installed and uninstalled the Intel Rapid Tech thing twice, turned the Express cache thing on and off a couple of times. However, DISKPART took forever to list the two and the disk manager app didn't display anything, while device manager DID. After a long sequence of seeing only one disk with "LIST DISK", one in Device Manager and one in BIOS, suddenly I was seeing the 24GB SSD in all those places. After messing with several elements like DISKPART, Express, Intel Rapid, etc. I did NOT see the SSD in BIOS or in Windows. When I finally looked at it, it was 6-10 minutes to boot and sometimes didn't appear to shut off at all. Here's my question:įor months the laptop (not mine, my wife's, Windows 8) was slow to boot and shutdown. I found several posts all over about how the drives and the motherboards of this laptop had problems.
