Recent content by Hyperglyph

You, elbert, deserve ALL the cookies. One week of trying to figure this out with two PCs sitting half-open and it finally seems to be fixed. Plugging the Samsung HDD into my backup PC and flashing its firmware with Seagate's (apparently they own Samsung's HDD division now) latest update did...

Long Story Short: ■Bought a used Asus Maximus Hero VIII and a new SSD ■When I reinstalled my old Samsung HDD (from 2009) as a secondary drive, it clicked on startup and didn't register. ■Disabling SecureBoot made the drive register but fail its SMART test. ■I thought "Uh-oh, it's going bad"...

Update: Disabling SecureBoot by setting it to "Other OS" instead of "Windows UEFI" stops the retching sound. Like I said, it's an old drive... and the Windows install pre-dates UEFI's widespread adoption, so I can see why that was an issue. However, SMART is now telling me that HDD failure is...

Bought a pre-owned Asus mobo, board seems to be fine and they claim it was up and running in their build not 2 months ago. ... but it's not recognizing my Samsung HDD. It's spotted my WD drive and everything else, but my main boot drive (the Samsung) from my previous build isn't showing up. I...