- Aug 12, 2014
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Hi all,
I've been tearing hair out for the last couple of weeks trying to solve this, but I have now admitted defeat so I need some expert advice. I wasn't sure if I should put this here or in the laptop section so feel free to move it.
This got a little long winded so to sum up:
Sandisk SSD works fine.
When swapped for previously working OCZ SSD (which, after a disk image recovery, shows no errors in chkdsk, sfc scannow, startup repair and has a rebuild bootsector using bootrec) the drive doesn't get past bios.
The disk works as usual in laptop caddy - all files present, but still wont boot, although I suspect there is also a problem with my caddy/second sata connection.
Cannot do a clean install due to a missing driver (which I cant find)
If anyone could shed some light on this I'd be hugely grateful!!
More details:
I recently bought a second SSD (just a little Sandisk one) to use as a second second copy of win7 in a totally barebones configuration (no internet etc) which I use to run software for live music performance. I have a hard drive caddy to replace my CD drive, but swiftly found that while it would happily read/boot from a mechanical drive, it won't boot from an SSD, and will only recognize it in windows with the Intel Rapid storage driver installed.
Anyway, I chose to just swap my usual SSD - the OCZ Agility 3 with the new one (incidentally - is it a bad idea to do this regularly on a laptop?). Everything installed fine and worked perfectly until I went back to the OCZ which would no longer boot - it was getting halfway through the windows logo and hitting a blue screen. I tried a bunch of stuff (fixmbr, sfc scannow, startup repair) but couldn't get it working so I reverted to a disk image backup (using Comodo Backup - won't be using this again!).
Still no avail - the laptop now flashes the HP logo and restarts repeatedly. The bios also seems very slow and buggy with this hard drive in. I tried all the usual bootrec/sfc/startup repair stuff without any change. Startup repair seemed to think the drive was fine and I think it is too, it was a clean disk image recovery from a verified source. It MUST be an incompatibility with this particular drive and my laptop (even though it's worked fine for over a year).
At this point I gave up and tried to do a clean install on the drive just to see if it works (not something I want to do, as I have a hugely complicated software setup for recording music - hence all the image backups). Windows just asks for drivers before it can install - I've tried pretty much every driver they provide for my laptop but I cant get past this screen. Again, I don't get this issue with the other SSD).
My setup is:
HP Probook 4530s (with ATI discrete graphics - which incidentally appears to be broken, it causes BSOD when enabled in the bios)
8gb ram
OCZ Agility 3 SSD (the drive with issues)
Sandisk SSD - works fine
Thanks!
I've been tearing hair out for the last couple of weeks trying to solve this, but I have now admitted defeat so I need some expert advice. I wasn't sure if I should put this here or in the laptop section so feel free to move it.
This got a little long winded so to sum up:
Sandisk SSD works fine.
When swapped for previously working OCZ SSD (which, after a disk image recovery, shows no errors in chkdsk, sfc scannow, startup repair and has a rebuild bootsector using bootrec) the drive doesn't get past bios.
The disk works as usual in laptop caddy - all files present, but still wont boot, although I suspect there is also a problem with my caddy/second sata connection.
Cannot do a clean install due to a missing driver (which I cant find)
If anyone could shed some light on this I'd be hugely grateful!!
More details:
I recently bought a second SSD (just a little Sandisk one) to use as a second second copy of win7 in a totally barebones configuration (no internet etc) which I use to run software for live music performance. I have a hard drive caddy to replace my CD drive, but swiftly found that while it would happily read/boot from a mechanical drive, it won't boot from an SSD, and will only recognize it in windows with the Intel Rapid storage driver installed.
Anyway, I chose to just swap my usual SSD - the OCZ Agility 3 with the new one (incidentally - is it a bad idea to do this regularly on a laptop?). Everything installed fine and worked perfectly until I went back to the OCZ which would no longer boot - it was getting halfway through the windows logo and hitting a blue screen. I tried a bunch of stuff (fixmbr, sfc scannow, startup repair) but couldn't get it working so I reverted to a disk image backup (using Comodo Backup - won't be using this again!).
Still no avail - the laptop now flashes the HP logo and restarts repeatedly. The bios also seems very slow and buggy with this hard drive in. I tried all the usual bootrec/sfc/startup repair stuff without any change. Startup repair seemed to think the drive was fine and I think it is too, it was a clean disk image recovery from a verified source. It MUST be an incompatibility with this particular drive and my laptop (even though it's worked fine for over a year).
At this point I gave up and tried to do a clean install on the drive just to see if it works (not something I want to do, as I have a hugely complicated software setup for recording music - hence all the image backups). Windows just asks for drivers before it can install - I've tried pretty much every driver they provide for my laptop but I cant get past this screen. Again, I don't get this issue with the other SSD).
My setup is:
HP Probook 4530s (with ATI discrete graphics - which incidentally appears to be broken, it causes BSOD when enabled in the bios)
8gb ram
OCZ Agility 3 SSD (the drive with issues)
Sandisk SSD - works fine
Thanks!
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