Question New SSD Installed, Windows Freezes at Boot Screen

[bdcrlsn]

I acquired a barely used SSD from an unused work PC (WD Blue 1TB, less than 200GB written) and installed it in my PC while it was on so I could see its partitions and whatnot through Disk Manager. Deleted all the partitions and formatted the drive so it’s a clean slate. Do a restart and PC stops at the mobo splash screen, won’t even let me get into BIOS. As soon as I unplug the new SSD, it resumes booting normally. Now when I plug the SSD in when Windows is up, it doesn’t even show up in Disk Manager. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[USAFRet]

and installed it in my PC while it was on

Why did you do that?

Not all SATA ports are hotswappable. You may have fried that particular port.

Try different data and power connections?

And STOP connecting this thing while the system is already running.