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I have the "Professional" version and have used it to make the boot disk ISO - and added that ISO to Ventoy.
It boots up just fine, it 'sees' the Ventoy Disk but it does not 'see' the fixed SSD with the C\- drive on it.
Any thoughts?
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Maybe it does not have the required driver for the SSD interface? Since its the Pro version and you paid for it - why not ask the Active@ company?
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12-03-2023, 09:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-03-2023, 09:23 AM by Epictetus.)
If I go in to the BIOS and change the Storage type from RAID to AHCI, KillDisk then 'sees' the SSD.
Of course that is a bit of a pain because you have to go back in to the BIOS and change it back to enable the OS to boot. All the other programs on my Ventoy disk see the SSD without any such fiddling. I think I should expect better from a paid (KillDisk) program.
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ah RAID - you didn't mention that. Did you tell them that? Why would you use RAID for one SSD?
Well that would probably require a RAID driver which they may not include.
Sometimes there is a way of adding extra drivers when making the ISO, and it is not unreasonable to have to add in a RAID driver for your particular system.
I am unsure as to whether you can expect it to boot if you change from AHCI to RAID?
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And most interestingly, Sergei Strelec's WinPE has a version of Active@ KillDisk which DOES see the SSD with the C\- partition WITHOUT any BIOS jiggery-pokery.