Installing windows 8.1 on OCZ RevoDrive 3 no driver visible.
I am trying to instal windows 8.1 x64 on my ocz revodrive3, but the drivers provided by ocz are not visible during the windows 8 instalation.
I've even booted from the instalation cd but still no luck.
Had anyone went through this problem before?
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