[SOLVED] Laptop gives a hard disk error after installing SSD ?

[Jayne Dough]

After upgrading to SSD hard drive, laptop gives a hard drive error at startup now. Have to do hard drive check in order to get to login screen. What needs to be done to avoid this error completely?

 

[rgd1101]

what the laptop? what ssd?
fresh os install on the ssd?

 

[Jayne Dough]

what the laptop? what ssd?
fresh os install on the ssd?

HP Pavilion, just says SSD, don't know about the fresh install as the tech did that. Would have been nothing else on the SSD as it was new so would that be "fresh"? I could take this back to the shop but I wanted to try and fix myself as it would be quicker.

 

[hang-the-9]

After upgrading to SSD hard drive, laptop gives a hard drive error at startup now. Have to do hard drive check in order to get to login screen. What needs to be done to avoid this error completely?

What is the exact error? Is it saying the file system is corrupt? It sounds like you cloned the drive to the SSD with the file system not in good shape. Or do you have two disks in the system? Need a bit more detail.

 

[Jayne Dough]

"Hard disk error.
Please run the hard disk test in system diagnostics.
Hard Disk 2 (3F2)
F2 System diagnostics" That's what it says. I did the quick check and it passed. Now I've learned I can hit esc when I first see the error and it takes me right into the startup screen, without having to run a check. I believe there is only one SSD disk, if that's what you mean.

 

[hang-the-9]

"Hard disk error.
Please run the hard disk test in system diagnostics.
Hard Disk 2 (3F2)
F2 System diagnostics" That's what it says. I did the quick check and it passed. Now I've learned I can hit esc when I first see the error and it takes me right into the startup screen, without having to run a check. I believe there is only one SSD disk, if that's what you mean.

The error states "hard disk 2" so must be two disks in the system. I'd replace it or at least look into what the shop that did the work did a bit.

 

[Jayne Dough]

Hello my friend Titan, I called the shop and he said to bring it back in as likely it is a boot sequence in BIOS that needs changed. I can't take it in until tomorrow. Mini-sleuth that I am, I looked into the BIOS and found this:
Boot options: CD-Rom boot enabled
USB boot enabled
Legacy support disabled
Then under UEFI boot order, OSBoot manager is selected. Under that is Legacy boot order: notebook harddrive.
Would you suggest I change anything? I'm thinking we're close...very very close...to fixing this. (And just so I can prove how little I know, I would think changing the Legacy to enabled would do the trick but I haven't changed anything yet.)

 

[Jayne Dough]

Problem solved! At the shop today, the tech took out the music CD from CD-Rom as he said it may have been trying to boot to/from that. Also, he ran a more extensive test at startup and it seemed to do the trick. No more error messages. Good to go!