I cloned my HDD to a Samsung 840 evo SSD and the computer boots from the SSD and runs fine, but the HD LED stays on. The LEDs are connected correctly on the mobo. I simply swapped out the SSD for the HDD, did what I had to do to make the SDD the boot disk and it works great, but the LED comes on when the bios discovers the HD's and stays on. Any suggestions?
HD LED stays on
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A HDD indicator reflects disk activity. I've imaged and cloned several HDD's and HDD's to SSD conversions and never saw this kind of activity. Try running a hard drive diagnostic utility. You didn't say wether the SSD is new or not so it could be a problem with the drive itself. It could be a virus, or some process running in the background. Run a virus scan if you haven't already. I know you mentioned it, but go back into BIOS and make sure that your SSD is the primary disk. Check your boot order. I always set the floppy or optical drive (if no floppy) as the first boot device.
I know you said you pinned the case header, but double check it for proper pinout to the HDD indicator.
That's all I can think of...
I know you said you pinned the case header, but double check it for proper pinout to the HDD indicator.
That's all I can think of...
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