OCZ Vertex 2 SSD does not show when using recovery TrueImage 2010 CD
I am using the latest build of TrueImage Home 2010 and created a bootable CD which works fine. However, the 100 GB OCS Vertex 2 drive (SATA II) on an ASUS X58 (Rampage III Extreme) motherboard does not show up as a partition when booting from the CD. All three mechanical hard disks do show as separate partitions. No problems there.
This means I am unable to restore the SSD bootable hard drive in case of an emergency. Note, that I created an image of the SSD drive using the 2nd Windows 7 (64 bit) bootable drive which is the hard disk on which TrueImage is installed.
Thanks,
Kurt
I just found the problem. I just disconnected the OCZ Vertex 2 SSD from the SATA II (6 Gb/s) port on the motherboard to a SATA I (3 Gb/s) port. Now the rescue disk is able to see the OCZ SSD drive!
However, running TrueImage off a hard drive under Windows 7 I was able to create an image of the OCZ SSD under SATA II. So it seems a bug with the rescue disk that Acronis needs to fix.
I just realized that SATA III is 6Gb/s and SATA II is 3Gb/s. So I went from SATA III to SATA II for the Vertex 2 which is a SATA II device. This is the correct configuration where no problem occurs with the TrueImage rescue disk. However, there were no issues running the Vertex II connected to the SATA III channel.
It is a driver issue that ATI cannot see the SSD drive when connected on SATA 3 which is not part of the X58 chip. I need to add the SATA III Marvel SATA controller driver as part of the ATI rescue disk. Not sure how to do that as there is no prompt for adding drivers during the CD burn operation.
I think the Linux kernel they use on the Rescue disk created by the downloaded .iso dates from the early Jurassic. It doesn't support my AMD/ATI R800 series GPU, either.
If you haven't done so already, you might try to create a RescueCD by using the option under the "tools and Recovery" tab of the opening screen. On my somewhat less ambitious machine, the disk created at that option will support my GPU, it may support your SSD.