I had my first taste of ISRT today when upgrading a friend's Inspiron to Windows 8. Below is the steps I took to fix it. Even though you are moving from Win8 to Win7, I think these steps may work for you.
Here is what worked for me:
1. Open BIOS and change SATA operation to AHCI.
2. Boot to Windows 8 DVD and choose a clean install. Delete the primary partition and I would also suggest deleting the mSATA partition. Install Windows 8 on the primary partition even though you will wind up installing Windows 8 again.
3. Once Windows is installed, restart the PC, go into the BIOS and set the SATA operation to ISRT (Intel Smart Response Technology). Save the change and exit the BIOS.
4. The Option ROM should pop up - Press Ctrl + I
5. Press R to remove acceleration and 6 to Exit.
6. At least for me, Windows will not boot and will restart automatically. Eventually, Windows 8 will attempt to repair, the repair will fail, but you will be allowed to go to Advanced Options and then to the Command Prompt.
7. At the Command Prompt, type Diskpart.
8. At the Diskpart prompt, type List Disk.
9. In the list that follows, make note of the mSATA disk (32GB in my case). It will be disk 0 or disk 1
10. Type Select Disk 0 ( or 1, if mSATA disk is disk 1).
11. Type Clean
12. Type OFFLINE DISK
13. Type Exit
14. Restart the PC and boot into the Windows 8 DVD. Choose Clean Install and delete the primary partition where you previously installed Windows. Choose to install Windows into the unallocated space from the deleted partition and complete the installation.
15. Once Windows is up, go to www.dell.com, download the IRST driver, install the driver, start the application and enable the acceleration on the mSATA drive.
Sorry I might have not given all the information. Now with windows 7, i've installed windows 8 now, I did a complete wipe of drivers etc and installed windows 8. Now I have no ISRT drivers whatsoever and when I do install them, I get the bluescreen. So if I change the SATA settings to ISRT now, (because I am already at step 2), I am not sure part 4 will happen. Because I have no ISRT driver at all. Or is this an unfounded worry? I reckon step 6 will happen to me
bgetreu
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January 16th, 2013 18:00
I had my first taste of ISRT today when upgrading a friend's Inspiron to Windows 8. Below is the steps I took to fix it. Even though you are moving from Win8 to Win7, I think these steps may work for you.
Here is what worked for me:
1. Open BIOS and change SATA operation to AHCI.
2. Boot to Windows 8 DVD and choose a clean install. Delete the primary partition and I would also suggest deleting the mSATA partition. Install Windows 8 on the primary partition even though you will wind up installing Windows 8 again.
3. Once Windows is installed, restart the PC, go into the BIOS and set the SATA operation to ISRT (Intel Smart Response Technology). Save the change and exit the BIOS.
4. The Option ROM should pop up - Press Ctrl + I
5. Press R to remove acceleration and 6 to Exit.
6. At least for me, Windows will not boot and will restart automatically. Eventually, Windows 8 will attempt to repair, the repair will fail, but you will be allowed to go to Advanced Options and then to the Command Prompt.
7. At the Command Prompt, type Diskpart.
8. At the Diskpart prompt, type List Disk.
9. In the list that follows, make note of the mSATA disk (32GB in my case). It will be disk 0 or disk 1
10. Type Select Disk 0 ( or 1, if mSATA disk is disk 1).
11. Type Clean
12. Type OFFLINE DISK
13. Type Exit
14. Restart the PC and boot into the Windows 8 DVD. Choose Clean Install and delete the primary partition where you previously installed Windows. Choose to install Windows into the unallocated space from the deleted partition and complete the installation.
15. Once Windows is up, go to www.dell.com, download the IRST driver, install the driver, start the application and enable the acceleration on the mSATA drive.
I hope this helps.
kacakboy
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January 21st, 2013 02:00
Sorry I might have not given all the information. Now with windows 7, i've installed windows 8 now, I did a complete wipe of drivers etc and installed windows 8. Now I have no ISRT drivers whatsoever and when I do install them, I get the bluescreen. So if I change the SATA settings to ISRT now, (because I am already at step 2), I am not sure part 4 will happen. Because I have no ISRT driver at all. Or is this an unfounded worry? I reckon step 6 will happen to me