Fernando,

Here's the info you requested:
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a) C: = 455.63 GB (see Disk Mgmt.jpg)
b) I don't think Properties -> Optimize sees the SSD (see Optimize.jpg). It only shows "Hard Disk Drive" entries.
c) After running winsat diskformal, Optimize still shows the same thing as above.

2. 14.6.1.1030. See Device Mgr and RAID Controller jpgs

I also added pictures of what I see in the IRST console for each drive.

@ Fernando:

When I select "Mark as Spare" in IRST console, it just changes to "Reset to Available".
Nothing else changes there, but the SSD disappears from Disk Management.

When I select "Reset to Available" it just changes back again, and Disk Management sees the SSD again.

Thanks for taking the time to help. Does anything look wrong with my configuration?

@ Fernando

I totally agree that the reason my system is so slow is because the PC doesn't see the SSD anymore. I just don't know why it doesn't see it anymore or how to make it see it again.

Zitat

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The question is, whether the SSD has previously been used just for data caching according the Intel(R) Smart Response Technology (look >here<) or as system drive (with the boot sector and the OS on it).

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The SSD was definitely used for IRST data caching before the new HD was installed. IRST used to work great and it used to show the HD as Accelerated. It was never a system drive.

Zitat

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In the first case you have to use the "Drive Acceleration" option from within the RST Console Software, in the latter case you have to reinstall the OS onto the SSD.

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So it's the first case, but there is no "Drive Acceleration" option in the RST Console anymore. It disappeared (along with the Accelerate tab) when the new HD w new OS was installed.

I've been trying to determine if there are any steps that I could take that would make the OS see the SSD (meaning that it would register in File Explorer -> Properties -> Tools -> Optimize)...assuming that if the OS saw the SSD, then RST would then show the option to Accelerate the HD using the SSD again.

I've never had a SSD in a laptop before, so I'm not really sure why it's not seen by the OS (though it is seen in the RST Console, even though it doesn't allow me to use it to Accelerate the HD).

Any ideas you may have would be greatly appreciated. It's so slow that if I can't get this working I'm just going to reimage the pc, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.

And thanks again for all your suggestions!

Pete

@simpsonp44
You need around 300MB of unallocated space at the end of the HDD.
iRST needs a few MB to enable acceleration.

PS: I went through your issue and got passed it after I shrunk the C partition 300MB.

Newest IRST Drivers 14.7.0.1000 WHQL

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By28-1Y...iew?usp=sharing

Read went from 973.0 MB/s to 989.7 MB/s on crystal disk mark with new driver.

Cheers

Hans

@STR866

Zitat

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You need around 300MB of unallocated space at the end of the HDD.
iRST needs a few MB to enable acceleration.

PS: I went through your issue and got passed it after I shrunk the C partition 300MB.

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Thanks for the suggestion. I was hopeful but unfortunately it didn't work for me. I shrunk my partition by 300MB, but nothing changed in IRST console or elsewhere. I then unistalled IRST and reinstalled again, but still no dice.

But your idea did shift my direction a bit. The things that changed between IRST working and not working was a new HD and OS install. I'd been focusing on the OS and system side for a solution (with no success) but I think I need to focus more on the HD side. Perhaps there's something different in the setup of my new HD that is no longer allowing IRST to see it as Accelerateable (yep, I made that word up).

That being said, it still appears that my notebook doesn't see the SSD (except in IRST console) so perhaps it's a system issue too.

If anyone has any ideas on other things to run down, please let me know. I think I'm encroaching on a full wipe and reinstall soon.

Thanks all!

@simpsonp44
If I remember correctly you need that unallocated space at the end of the drive.
I had 2 DELL partitions at the end of my hdd so I needed to extend the penultimate partition then shrink it by the same number of MB and then I did the same with the last partition.

I have BSOD with 32/64bit Intel RST(e) drivers v14.7.0.1000

I use Windows 10 64 and always my GA-X58A-UD5

Same problem :

http://station-drivers.com/index.php?opt...mid=171&lang=fr