

While I only had the SSD installed (and no HDD), I used command prompt to mark the SSD as active to see if that would do anything, but nothing. I even updated the BIOS, which again didn't help. Also, BIOS won't recognize the SSD (Crucial) so I can't reorganize the boot priorities.

When I try to refresh install, it says the hard drive is locked and that I need to unlock it to move on. Remove everything option always ends in the computer telling me I can't do that, there's a windows partition missing.

I've tried the re-install while removing everything option and the refresh option. I unplugged/removed the regular HDD and tried installing Windows 8 on the SSD and no luck. Windows detects the SSD under disk management. I made a recovery disk on a 16gb flash drive. I'm trying to re-install Windows 8 on a newly installed SSD. I recently purchased a MSI GE60 Apache Pro 003.
