- Apr 16, 2015
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Hi all,
Long story short, today I picked up a 120GB Kingston SSDNow V300 on Kiijiji locally for $5 CAD.
Anyway, the seller claimed this was bought new, but he was never able to install an OS to it.
For $5, I figured I'd give it a try.
I attached it via an external USB enclosure I have. Drive shows up inside Windows (so it was formatted/named at least!) - but it appears to be causing lockups/freezing while attached.
1. Disk Management wouldn't open while it was attached
2. Windows Explorer started 'not responding' when trying to explore the drive
3. Explorer.exe crashed (black screen in the background, browser sitting over top appeared unaffected.
Any thoughts/suggestions as to why this would happen?
This is not the first time this has happened to me - replacing an HDD with an SSD in my GF's kids laptop as the HDD appeared to be failing. Got his laptop all set up, and attached the HDD via (another) enclosure over USB3.0 and the same problems occurred - although that time, it appeared to impact my OS as, even when the USB was not attached, I was having freezing/lockup issues.
I didn't have the time/patience/effort at that time to diagnose the issue, and I just reinstalled Windows (my OS is pretty clean/thin at all times anyway, so no big deal). I had (probably wrongly) assumed the fact the drive had an OS installed on it, was conflicting in some way with my install.
As an FYI, at the time, my rig was 100% different - there's not a single component that remains, so that *should* rule out a hardware issue on the part of my rig.
The USB3.0 enclosure is also not the same one - although worth noting this enclosure worked perfectly the other day to migrate some info from a couple of old HDDs.
Anyway, any suggestions as to the cause &/or how to remedy this SSD? (The prior HDD is around somewhere too, so it would be nice if I could check the health of it too).
Long story short, today I picked up a 120GB Kingston SSDNow V300 on Kiijiji locally for $5 CAD.
Anyway, the seller claimed this was bought new, but he was never able to install an OS to it.
For $5, I figured I'd give it a try.
I attached it via an external USB enclosure I have. Drive shows up inside Windows (so it was formatted/named at least!) - but it appears to be causing lockups/freezing while attached.
1. Disk Management wouldn't open while it was attached
2. Windows Explorer started 'not responding' when trying to explore the drive
3. Explorer.exe crashed (black screen in the background, browser sitting over top appeared unaffected.
Any thoughts/suggestions as to why this would happen?
This is not the first time this has happened to me - replacing an HDD with an SSD in my GF's kids laptop as the HDD appeared to be failing. Got his laptop all set up, and attached the HDD via (another) enclosure over USB3.0 and the same problems occurred - although that time, it appeared to impact my OS as, even when the USB was not attached, I was having freezing/lockup issues.
I didn't have the time/patience/effort at that time to diagnose the issue, and I just reinstalled Windows (my OS is pretty clean/thin at all times anyway, so no big deal). I had (probably wrongly) assumed the fact the drive had an OS installed on it, was conflicting in some way with my install.
As an FYI, at the time, my rig was 100% different - there's not a single component that remains, so that *should* rule out a hardware issue on the part of my rig.
The USB3.0 enclosure is also not the same one - although worth noting this enclosure worked perfectly the other day to migrate some info from a couple of old HDDs.
Anyway, any suggestions as to the cause &/or how to remedy this SSD? (The prior HDD is around somewhere too, so it would be nice if I could check the health of it too).
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