I have an approximately 5 year old laptop, Toshiba Satellite A505-S6980, which I bought new. About 3 years ago the Toshiba utilities told me that the original 500 GB 5400 RPM hard drive was about to fail and to replace it. I replaced it with a Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB 7200 RPM Hybrid HD+SSD (STAN500100) using an Apricorn USB to SATA connector and the Apricorn cloning software that came with the cable purchased at Best Buy. Life was good. The hard drive seemed incredibly fast, especially after the first few weeks and the HD had stored the most used data on the SSD portion of the hard drive and was also trouble free. Fast forward to a couple of months ago when I realized that I only had about 10 GB of free space left on the Seagate. So I set about looking for a new 1 TB HD. All I could find at a reasonable price were 5400 RPM models so I settled on a Western Digital 1 TB 5400 RPM HD (WD10JUCT) and I bought it from Newegg for $90. I used Acronis True Image 2014 to clone from the Seagate Momentus to the new WD. The new HD worked, but immediately I realized that a lot of photos would not load especially in emails and everything seemed a bit clunky. A Google search of the issued turned up that the new drive was an enhanced format drive and was incompatible with my Intel Chipset drivers. So after updating the chipset and running the WD alignment tool things were back to normal. Normal except for the speed that is; much too slow. I lived with it for a couple of months and then I found out that Seagate still makes a hybrid drive in a 1 TB model. They no longer make the Momentus drives, and no longer make 7200 RPM 2.5” drives but the reviews looked positive so I bit on a Seagate 1 TB 5400 RPM SSHD hybrid drive (STBD1000400) from Amazon for $100. Again I cloned the Seagate from the WD using Acronis True Image 2014 and all seemed good. The first day after the clone I used the laptop for about 3 hours using PowerPoint, Word and Outlook as well as some net surfing. No problems whatsoever. The speed didn’t seem drastically better but did seem faster. That was a little over a week ago. The next day I got the first BSOD Stop error "0X000000F4 (0X0000000000000003, 0XFFFFFA8008B58540, 0XFFFFFA8008B58820, 0XFFFFF800035927B00 Physical Memory Dump failed with status 0XC000001Q". After that I restarted the machine after a few minutes and it started up and ran with no problems again. For this last week it has been giving random BSOD, sometimes it will restart and sometimes it would go back into BSOD again and sometimes into a check disk mode. Finally yesterday after getting so frustrated I reluctantly pulled the Seagate and put the WD back in. Even with all the BSODs the Seagate had become very quick almost like the old Momentus booting up quickly and opening applications like Outlook and IE pretty quickly. Now with the WD back in it seems to be stable again, but the speed is back to slow again. It seems to me that this must be some kind of a driver issue or something similar at work here, no? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Random BSODs after HD replacement
- Thread starter David_jr
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I ran the Sea Tools and it said there was nothing wrong with the drive. I went to the Seagate Community Forums and register and posted what I posted here. A rep replied to me stating that the drive was most likely defective in the SSD portion and they arranged to replace it under warranty. I only paid return shipping $10. Got the new drive back and now I will have to try to do the install all over again.
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