Setup:
- Intel NUC today (model DN2820FYKH)
- Value Kingston 8GB DDR3L
- Samsung SSD 840 EVO
It starts up okay, BIOS reports correct amount of RAM as well as connected drives.
I followed Intel recommended BIOS settings:
- AHCI mode
- Legacy boot disabled
- UEFI compatibility Windows 8.x
I went ahead and booted from my Windows 8.1 installation USB. However at a step, where I should choose partition/drive for install, the list is empty with error that it could not find a drive.
So I booted from my other USB stick to Parted Magic and it detected drive successfully. I could do normal operations with drive (recreated partition table, create partitions, etc.).
Steps I tried to troubleshoot:
- Changing UEFI compatibility to Win7 and tried Windows 7 installation, but it's same issue there as well.
- Various versions of BIOS
- Changing to IDE mode, then disk appeared but I would get error when
trying to use
clean
in diskpart (DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
) - Replaced SSD with Intel's 310 series 120GB. Even in AHCI mode, Windows detected it. But when I tried
clean
->cre par pri
->for quick fs=ntfs
it throwed error during formating (Disk Part has encountered an error: the parameter is incorrect
). If I let Windows format it during setup by simply clickingnext
would halt for few minutes and then throw error0x80070057
and afterrefresh
I could see Windows created 300MBrestore
and 100MBsystem
partition and rest was unallocated.
One interesting thing to note is that I could see the drive few times in Windows installation, but whenever I tried to remove or create partition, it would just halt (endless wait cursor) but computer still responded. Strangely, I was able to create a partition and install Windows just once, but as I removed USB stick at the end of installation and let it boot for the first time, it would just throw blue error message with error code 0x00085
.
Parted Magic does detect the drive successfully every time, and I can do operations with the drive very easily, so that should indicate it's not hardware issue, but a software.
DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.