Samsung 840 EVO 500GB SSD Not detected in BIOS
Samsung Laptop NP300E5A, Win 7 64-Bit, BIOS 09QA, Motherboard Samsung Model 300E5A
Legacy USB Support (Enabled), UEFI Boot Support (Disabled), AHCI Mode Control (Auto), SATA GEN3 Mode (Disabled)
I have followed the guides for both Paragon Migrate OS To SSD and Samsung Data Migration and Magician.
The cloning is successful and the drive is visible as an external drive - Local Disk (D) and Data (F) using
a converter adaptor SATA 22-Pin cable.
In DEVICE MANAGER SSD is listed as ASMT 2105 USB Device. In “SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE” it is listed as ASMT 1051
In COMPUTER MANAGEMENT it is almost an exact copy of the Current 500 GB HDD set-up, the exception is the
Disk 0 C Drive is listed as - Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) whereas the SSD is Healthy (Primary Partition) however - Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, are missing is this relevant?
Disk 1 Basic (SSD) 465.66GB –
Data (F
100 MB NTFS Healthy (Active, Primary, Partition)
SYSTEM (D 442.59 GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition)
When I connect the SSD to my laptop and enter the BIOS setup I see
SATA PORT 1 - Not Installed
SATA PORT 2 - SlimtypeDVD A DS8A5SH
When I fit the original Seagate 500GB drive, it occupies the "SATA PORT 1" option and I can start using my grindingly slow laptop.
The BIOS options are SATA HDD, USB HDD, SATA CD: SlimtypeDVD A DS8A5SH, USB CD, USB FDD and NETWORK.
The options are to Move, enable or Disable them, I have tried shifting/disabling them to no avail, the SSD is not recognised.
Can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong, I have tried and tried and tried to get this SSD working on my 2 year old grindingly slow laptop, I hope I have given you enough information.
I did contact Samsung support with the above information and their response was to do what I had already done, if it didn’t work, return the drive, which I did. This is the second SSD, Paragon doesn’t clone the Recovery partition but Samsung Data Migration does, also before I cloned this drive I opened it in Disk Management and the message was; this drive needs to be Initialised MBR etc, should I have done this before installing the Cloning software?
I really would appreciate any help
Regards
Esther White
Samsung Laptop NP300E5A, Win 7 64-Bit, BIOS 09QA, Motherboard Samsung Model 300E5A
Legacy USB Support (Enabled), UEFI Boot Support (Disabled), AHCI Mode Control (Auto), SATA GEN3 Mode (Disabled)
I have followed the guides for both Paragon Migrate OS To SSD and Samsung Data Migration and Magician.
The cloning is successful and the drive is visible as an external drive - Local Disk (D) and Data (F) using
a converter adaptor SATA 22-Pin cable.
In DEVICE MANAGER SSD is listed as ASMT 2105 USB Device. In “SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE” it is listed as ASMT 1051
In COMPUTER MANAGEMENT it is almost an exact copy of the Current 500 GB HDD set-up, the exception is the
Disk 0 C Drive is listed as - Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) whereas the SSD is Healthy (Primary Partition) however - Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, are missing is this relevant?
Disk 1 Basic (SSD) 465.66GB –
Data (F
100 MB NTFS Healthy (Active, Primary, Partition) SYSTEM (D
442.59 GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition)When I connect the SSD to my laptop and enter the BIOS setup I see
SATA PORT 1 - Not Installed
SATA PORT 2 - SlimtypeDVD A DS8A5SH
When I fit the original Seagate 500GB drive, it occupies the "SATA PORT 1" option and I can start using my grindingly slow laptop.
The BIOS options are SATA HDD, USB HDD, SATA CD: SlimtypeDVD A DS8A5SH, USB CD, USB FDD and NETWORK.
The options are to Move, enable or Disable them, I have tried shifting/disabling them to no avail, the SSD is not recognised.
Can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong, I have tried and tried and tried to get this SSD working on my 2 year old grindingly slow laptop, I hope I have given you enough information.
I did contact Samsung support with the above information and their response was to do what I had already done, if it didn’t work, return the drive, which I did. This is the second SSD, Paragon doesn’t clone the Recovery partition but Samsung Data Migration does, also before I cloned this drive I opened it in Disk Management and the message was; this drive needs to be Initialised MBR etc, should I have done this before installing the Cloning software?
I really would appreciate any help
Regards
Esther White
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