Major problems formattingpartitioning Intel SSD for Windows 7 install. I have tried every proposed solution on all of the various forums. The best was taking out all of the memory, all of the USB connectors, and all of the other drives. Installing Windows XP on the Asus EEE pc using a single USB flash drive. Please note this tutorial works on all computers not just the Asus EEE PC. As should be obvious, to get the best results from Windows Vista, you should simply buy a new PC. However, for a number of reasons, thats not always an. This is a detailed tutorial on how to format a hard drive in Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. Then I prepared the SSD directly through Diskpartition, which entails doing a clean all, manually creating partitions and then formatting them. I was then able to install Windows 7 more or less. I say more or less because the Windows 7 would start to malfunction almost immediately. The best I did was have it up and running for 4 days before it crashed again. It seemed that it picked up a new corrupted file every time it was booted. Each time a different corrupted file. After two weeks screwing with it, I finally installed it on one of my regular storage drives. So far it is remarkably stable. I have run a SFC scannow at every step, and it remains clean. Now, I have to see about returning it to Crucial and getting a regular hard drive for booting. There is, of course, a chance that it is the disk controller. I have an Asus p. Marvell Sata 6. 0 GBs controller and an Intel Sata 6. Note This article received significants updates on October 25, 2009 and November 5, 2009. Paul It was the final unanswered question about Windows 7. Gt Designer 3 Mitsubishi Download Version 7.0. Formatting Windows Vista And Installing Windows Xp' title='Formatting Windows Vista And Installing Windows Xp' />Information about Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and 8 including tweaks, slipstreaming, install, registry, and forum for all Windows versions. As only the Intel controller was capable of handling RAID disks, I had used it for my storage disk and used the Marvell controller for the SSDs. If anyone knows of a good way to check the Marvell controller or the mobo, I would appreciate hearing about it before I send the SSD back.