OCZ Apex ssd drives not functioning under Windows 7

[Aandaleeb]

Hi. I have been using Windows 7 as my operating system on my desktop machine. The problem is that I have purchased an OCX Apex series SSD drive and it is unable to function properly. It gets detected and do show up any icon of the drive. Please help me out to get the thing sorted out. I am not able to use it properly. Hope to get a solution.

[Hardwareman]

The issue could be associated with the connectivity of the drive to the system that you are connecting with. It may be that the cable through which you are connecting the drive is not appropriate and thus it has causes loss of connectivity that is the power is not appropriate. The required supply unit thus do not gets achieved. So check out for the same.

[Maxforu]

As the the drive is able to get detected and the only perspective is that it is not able to show up the drive icon in the system. It may be that the required system file is not able to allocated the drive properly to the system. It may be good and essential that you need to run an upgradation. You can choose the device manager and then update the driver for the required hardware. This will thus let your system to display the icon for the drive.

[Killen]

Windows compatibility issue is one of the most prominent issue that may lead to such issue. The hardware may no t able to get function properly under the operating system. It would be better if you check out for the compatibility issue related to the hardware. You need to look for the required necessary ailments in order to get fulfilled. Hope this should help you out.

[T.J.]

Try to run a clean boot on your system this may lead to get the drive icon of the system to be displayed. To run a clean boot you need to follow the steps as follows:

* Click on the start menu and then type msconfig on the search box menu.
* Now hit enter.
* Under the selective startup tab select the Hide all Microsoft services.
* Disable the services.
* Restart the system.

[Rawko]

It would be better if you try to install the compatibility tool for Windows vista or Xp. This would thus help you in making the device to get detected if it is caused due to the operating system that isn't supporting well. You may get to the conclusion that if the system is not supporting due to the features of Windows 7 been not very much compatible with the hardware. hence it should work for Windows Vista or Xp.