- May 25, 2013
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After years of not joining the SSD club, I finally bought a Samsung Evo 850.
I Tried to clone my existing drive, but failed due to a corrupt sector (on my HDD I assume)
Not to worry, put it into my Dell Optiplex 930 SFF. Installed Windows 7, but then it would hang. The Drive activity light would stay on permanently blue . Left alone Long enough windows would eventually blue screen, re-boot and the Bios would then state "No Hard Drive found in the system". Powering off then on again, would bring it back to life, drive was recognised and windows would re-boot and stay up for maybe 5 minutes, maybe 30 minutes.
Put it in another Dell Optiplex 390. Same issue. Updated bios', ran Samsung Magician... exactly same problem.
Swapped SATA ports, windows re-installed the drivers and I thought it had worked, no freezing for a few hours. Next day same problem after 20 minutes...ggrrrr
Tried installing windows 10...same problem.
Dug out a 4 year old PC from under the stairs (we all have one!), put in the SSD, and it fired up windows 10 . Worked on it for a bit, then left it running Windows 10 whilst I ran some errands. Came back, it was in the BIOS post screen saying "No Hard drive to be found in the system"
I have read lots of other people having similar problems but no particular cure. Is this an issue with any SSD if the BIOS is not compatible ? I have read loads of stories of people breathing new life into old PC's so assumed you didn't need the latest PC to use a SSD.
The fact the same problem has followed my SSD to 3 PC's (albeit 2 of them being the same make and model) suggests the SSD is at fault.
Should I get a replacement from Samsung ?
Should I try another brand ?
I Tried to clone my existing drive, but failed due to a corrupt sector (on my HDD I assume)
Not to worry, put it into my Dell Optiplex 930 SFF. Installed Windows 7, but then it would hang. The Drive activity light would stay on permanently blue . Left alone Long enough windows would eventually blue screen, re-boot and the Bios would then state "No Hard Drive found in the system". Powering off then on again, would bring it back to life, drive was recognised and windows would re-boot and stay up for maybe 5 minutes, maybe 30 minutes.
Put it in another Dell Optiplex 390. Same issue. Updated bios', ran Samsung Magician... exactly same problem.
Swapped SATA ports, windows re-installed the drivers and I thought it had worked, no freezing for a few hours. Next day same problem after 20 minutes...ggrrrr
Tried installing windows 10...same problem.
Dug out a 4 year old PC from under the stairs (we all have one!), put in the SSD, and it fired up windows 10 . Worked on it for a bit, then left it running Windows 10 whilst I ran some errands. Came back, it was in the BIOS post screen saying "No Hard drive to be found in the system"
I have read lots of other people having similar problems but no particular cure. Is this an issue with any SSD if the BIOS is not compatible ? I have read loads of stories of people breathing new life into old PC's so assumed you didn't need the latest PC to use a SSD.
The fact the same problem has followed my SSD to 3 PC's (albeit 2 of them being the same make and model) suggests the SSD is at fault.
Should I get a replacement from Samsung ?
Should I try another brand ?
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