Gosh, Windows 7 was giving me a really hard time when I tried to install it on a OCZ RevoDrive 3 PCI-Express SSD drive. Every installation attempt was greeted with this error message:
“Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition”
Strangely, the drive was working perfectly as a non-boot drive under an existing Windows 7 installation and also visible as a SCSI drive in the BIOS drive list. Here are the steps which finally worked for me:
- Extract the RevoDrive 3 drivers on a FAT32-formatted USB flash drive
- Disconnect any disk drives (except the DVD drive) by unplugging the SATA cables
- Disconnect any USB devices (except for keyboard and mouse obviously)
- Boot Windows using the Windows 7 installation DVD
- When prompted for the target installation drive, choose “Load driver” (your list of available drives should be empty)
- Plug in the USB flash drive containing the drivers (don’t plug it in earlier!)
- Let Windows 7 load the driver from the flash drive
- Unplug the USB flash drive
- Choose the RevoDrive 3 as the installation drive and continue the Windows 7 installation
- Once Windows 7 is installed, reconnect all your SATA and USB devices
This PCIe SSD is ridiculously fast! Being a Mac person this drive even makes me like Windows a tiny bit more ;-) Unfortunately, there are no drivers available for OS X Lion and according to OCZ there never will be. This super fast SSD would be such a wonderful addition to any Mac Pro or Hackintosh setup.
Thanks so much!!! after 3 houers of failing i got it detected :D
Hopefully the w7 install will go smooth now :)
Thank you, I know it’s been quite a few months since your solution but after 4 hours of trying to figure this out myself I would have never blamed the USB drive as the culprit.
So once again thank you! I only wish every other person who has this problem gets to see this.
Many solutions available to solve this problem..
I did my though command prompt and thought ill make a video
tutorial on how to do this :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngYLxX_Uy2A
Hope you enjoy let me know if it worked for you :D
Muhammad Ali
MAk Productions