Hello,
I have got in front of me a computer whose behaviour regarding Intel Smart Response Technology puzzles me to no end. The machine in question, a Lenovo IdeaPad U410 (500 GB HDD + 24 GB SSD) running Windows 7 x64, is a few months old and has already had SRT successfully running on it. Howewer, a couple of weeks ago it got hit by some nasty malware and in the end I was asked to reinstall everything from scratch. I wiped both the SSD and the HDD, re-created the required partitions on the hard drive (200 MB EFI system, 128 MB Microsoft Reserved, everything that's left covered by a single NTFS partition; all of this using GPT), re-installed Windows 7 x64 (with Intel Rapid Storage drivers, exactly the same as during the first installation on that computer, read from a USB stick so that Windows installer could see the drives with the controller set to RAID mode), installed the whole Rapid Storage package... and now the option to enable acceleration is no longer there. No errors or warnings of any sort. it's just not there any more. What gives? The only difference in configuration is that earlier on the Windows partition ended 40 GB before the end of the HDD, with the remaining space left unallocated, to leave room for a possible Linux installation.
I've looked around on the Web and unfortunately have found no information that would help me. Having re-installed RST drivers - several times - has achieved nothing and besides, it seems most problems with SRT people complain about pertain to first-time installation, whereas as I have already mentioned above this laptop has already had SRT acceleration enabled on it.
Anyway, I would very much appreciate some suggestions regarding what else I could try to get acceleration running again. I have run our of ideas and unfortunately, the RST tool provided by the driver has given me no hints regarding why it doesn't let me switch SRT on.win