- Jan 2, 2015
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A buddy of mine bought a m.2 250gb 7850 EVO ssd off of craigslist. His mobo has a m.2 port, but hew could never see it in anything except bios. It also made his bios take 5 minuted to go to setup. I offered to take a look at it, and since my computer doesn't have a m.2 slot, I bought an adapter for it to get standard SATA ports for it, since it isn't a true pci-e drive, and uses SATA instead.
On my first boot, bios also took about 3 minutes to allow me to go into setup, but it also shows up in setup correctly. Restart, and after 3 minutes windows boots on my primary ssd, However, whenever the drive is connected my HDD activity light stays on constantly, and it shows up in Device manager only. At one point, Disk management gave me the option to initialize it, but that lasted for hours and nothing happened.
I booted Linux and tried gparted, but it doesn't see the drive at all,
Did he get scammed? The guy said that he had 3 of them in a RAID array. Is there anything I can try?
EDIT: Forgot to mention, the drive does get hot, so something is going on.
On my first boot, bios also took about 3 minutes to allow me to go into setup, but it also shows up in setup correctly. Restart, and after 3 minutes windows boots on my primary ssd, However, whenever the drive is connected my HDD activity light stays on constantly, and it shows up in Device manager only. At one point, Disk management gave me the option to initialize it, but that lasted for hours and nothing happened.
I booted Linux and tried gparted, but it doesn't see the drive at all,
Did he get scammed? The guy said that he had 3 of them in a RAID array. Is there anything I can try?
EDIT: Forgot to mention, the drive does get hot, so something is going on.
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