Solid-State Drives (SSD)

[shareef777]

YES it was run in Administrator mode. If you right click the icon directly and choose "Run as administrator" it will not say administrator in the titlebar. But just to prove it, I launched a command window directly as administrator and navigated and ran the crucial_wiper.exe app.

[targetbsp]

You can be running in raid mode even if you have no raid drives - MY past 2 Dells have come setup like that as standard.

Wiper on my Windows install takes 8 hours to complete because the computer is in raid mode (with no raid drives) installed. If I switched the computer into IDE mode wiper completes in less than 5 minutes but Windows is unable to boot without the raid bios. So I had to switch bios to ide, boot Bart PE, run wiper, reboot back to raid mode.

[elcarbonite]

When is a Mac wiper utility coming?

[ae3265]

+1 on the Mac version.

[mickm]

+2 on the Mac

[shareef777]

Any update on getting the wiper tool to run properly?

[Tekno]

Running Properly? I have used it with no issue. I have also used the one from OCZ version 0525 with no problems as well and I use Windows 7 x64 Ultimate RTM.

What motherboard are you using? Maybe it's a chipset issue.

[shareef777]

Running on a Lenovo T61 w/ Win7 x64 Ultimate RTM.

What SATA drivers are you using?

[Tekno]

I am using the native ones from Microsoft. Are you using the ones from Intel? I think it's called Intel Matrix Storage Manager? Also, have you been in AHCI mode the whole time or was it in IDE mode at one time and you reverted to AHCI.

I think the problem you have having is with a driver or your controller.

[shareef777]

I have a few items under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. I have two with Microsoft drivers (labeled ATA Channel 0 and Intel(R) ICH8M Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 2850) and one with Intel drivers (labeled Intel(R) ICH8M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller).

Seems like the issue is due to the Intel(R) ICH8M-E/M... using Intel drivers. Can I safely change it to Microsoft drivers without having to rebuild my system?

Also, I've been in AHCI mode from the start.