This thread is to help other people...
I was reading on some forums about how even though Crucial says that the M4 mSata SSD's are not compatible that people were getting them to work. Those were all like 256 or 128gb SSD's
So, I got a 64gb SSD for my boot drive. However when I went to install windows 7 it wouldn't show up in the drive list. Going into recovery options I was able to see the drive using diskpart and format it. After formatting it, it showed up in the windows menu. However it said something along the lines of "windows cannot be installed to this drive- your Bios may not allow booting off this drive"
So this made me realize my Bios is funky. Turns out I was still running the A03 Bios. Updated to A04 Bios and now I'm installing windows no problem!
I know there was a thread about what the A04 did and no one really knew, so I can say it allows you to install windows on 64gb mSata SSD's.
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Cool info Steel, thanks for sharing definitely going to pass this along!
Getting a 64gb Crucial M4 msata SSD to work as boot drive
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