Lenovo b570 Kingston SSD problem

Hello, I bought this drive fron newegg a week ago: SSD KINGSTON|SV300S37A/120G R. I am trying to do a windows 7 installation but windows refuses to format partitions ("Windows could not format a partition on disk 0, Error code 0x80070057). One time it allowed me to format but it errored out at the end of installation saying  it can't write to boot area of the disc. Now it consistently refuses to format any partition on that drive. I tried using diskpart tool from windows 7 repair but it fails at clean (diskpart has encountered and error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error). I simply tried to follow steps described by killbucket in this forum: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/250282-32-major-problems-formatting-partitioning-intel-windows-ins...   I updated bios from Lenovo website prior to SSD installation. It worked fine with WD Blue 5400RPM drive and win 7 home.  Is there any bios setting that can fix the issue? Does b570 work with SSDs? Please advise.

Yes the B570 does work with ssd's  I am running a sandisk extreme right now on mine.  There may have been a bios setting you have to change as I dont remember it has been a while and I do not have a bios anymore thanks to windows 8, see my other topic.  Just go into your bios and see if there are any "legacy" settings around your hard drive controler and if there are turn them to sata or whatever.  I would recommend downloading a linux distro called gparted.  It is a live cd and it can format the hard drive any way that you want it.  Just pop it in the cd drive and run it to set a new partition table (msdos) and to format it at ntfs.  If you cant figure it out feel free to email me at
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