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I recently bought a plug XPS 18 AIO who arrived from Dell with a load of Windows 8 generic factory.  The SSD of 32 GB has been also shaped as a regular reader of NTFS and appears in Explorer as just another drive (D to be exact).  I knew from working with my ultrabook Inspiron 15z (which has the same characteristics of exact material of 8 GB of memory and 32 GB mSATA SSD) that it was not good.  The system ran also exceptionally slower than my laptop so I knew it wasn't good.  After reading THIS thread ad nauseam as well as many others on the canvas, I was able to set up a process that works for me every time as the SSD of 32 GB and get the Intel Rapid Start/Storage works as it should after a reset (which does NOT recreate the correct configuration for the cache drive) or where the SSDS failed and had to be replaced.  I spent hours on the phone with Dell support and never solved.

The following steps are what I did to make it work properly.  Please note that some of the things that I here directly in contradiction with what some of the technicians here have posted so proceed as needed.  But just know that unless I did these steps exactly, I never could get everything right to reflect the settings of my laptop and everything works as it should get configuration.

These steps assume also that you have previously used a command line.  I have also downloaded the specific versions of the software Intel on the Intel site to match my laptop instead of using what was available for my Dell system, which, incidentally, was very old versions of the software.

1 remove all partitions on SSD cache drive using any use you want.  I used the Windows Disk Manager.  DO NOT RECREATE all the partitions on the SSD of 32 GB with Windows disk management or Diskpart to this point or it won't work.   I don't have to disable all settings in the BIOS either.  All Intel, UEFI, safeboot, etc. associated with settings in the BIOS have been activated while I was setting this up.  My system was completely the default settings in the BIOS.   ALSO uninstall all software technology Intel Rapid that you may have installed on the system before proceeding.  Restart after an uninstall to make sure everything is cleaned up.

2 open a command - CMD prompt window

3. Type "Diskpart" (must use it to use parameters when you create the hibernation partition)

4. in Diskpart: (in this example, my 32 GB SSD drive was drive 1.  Yours may vary)

list disk

Select the disk 1 (SSD)

partition list (there should be none)

create partition primary size 8192 set id = 84 overload (I have only 8 GB of system memory)

output

In Windows Disk Manager, you should now see a 8 GB partition "hibernation" with the rest of the unformatted drive AND NO DRIVE LETTER ASSIGNEE.

5 reset (CRITICAL or you get the dreaded this system is not compatible with this...) When you try to install the Intel software)

6. install Intel Rapid Start software FIRST (I used version 3.0.0.1053 directly from Intel)

After installation, open the program and make sure that everything is 'on' and the timer cursor inside is set to "0".

7 reboot

8. install Intel Rapid Storage Software (I used version 12.8.0.1016 directly from Intel)

9 reset.

10 open the Rapid Storage software and 'enable acceleration '.

Choose "Entire disk" instead of custom or 18.6.  When I chose 18.6 or tried to enter 8192 in the custom field, it never worked right.

The software must now create two partitions in raid 0 GB 8 and 22.  By Dell card on my laptop which also has this technology, I've renamed Raid 0 of 8 GB "FFS" partition and the partition of 22GB "Dev_Cache".

9 reboot

At this point, everything worked as expected.  If you open the Windows Disk Manager, you should see is no longer the mSATA SSD.  After using the system for a few minutes and then restarted once more, the XPS 18 is at least as fast as my laptop and everything works as expected.

HTH

Thank you, Blujay40. Very useful.

Tags: Dell Drives

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