SSD Drive not detecting.

[hughdman]

Ok I bought a SSD a while ago and did a complete backup of my c drive on to it.
I then installed in pc and it was working,

I then installed my old hard drive back into it,

I noticed my speeds weren't that great and having done a check it seems to be booting from pld hard drive.

In Disk mamagement the ssd doesn't show up.

my bios detects the ssd drive as I can boot from there, but it still shows the old drive as C drive.

In the device manager it shows 2 drives one a generic usb which im guessing is my SSD

Thanks in advance

[Philquad]

what happens if you unplug the old drive
does to boot to the ssd ok?

if it does, maybe your hard drive boot priority is wrong.

[hughdman]

will try that, once home, I went into bios last night and updated it, I then told it to boot from ssd. I believe it did but still loaded from old drive

[Philquad]

in the bios theres hard drive boot priority as well as order boot priority
so if 1st boot device is hard drive you must also check hhd order as well with 2 drives
sometimes the hidden "system files" can also end up on the wrong drive when installing to a new drive with a old 1 present
always pays to disconnect other hard drives when installing to another 1 specificly
not in your case as its a clone?

[Philquad]

in the bios theres hard drive boot priority as well as order boot priority
so if 1st boot device is hard drive you must also check hhd order as well with 2 drives
sometimes the hidden "system files" can also end up on the wrong drive when installing to a new drive with a old 1 present
always pays to disconnect other hard drives when installing to another 1 specifically
not in your case as its a clone?

[WhiteOx]

Got a stutter mate?

[Philquad]

ye ye yes
su su somthin ta ta to do with da da web server

[hughdman]

Farked it all up.
Now I have the blue screen of death. Quite amazed my monitor doesn't have my size 12 boot in it. I had both drives detected by bios but only one would show. Changing the boot priority did nothing.

[Tiny]

Assuming you have access to another PC then download minitool partition magic live CD

Burn to CD/DVD boot up your troubled PC with the disc & make sure you set the System reserved partition on SSD drive to Active Primary.
C: drive partition on same disc should be primary. EDIT2:This will be different for older versions of Windoze, Vista & XP. In which case C: drive will be primary, active & boot. Also after rereading the thread, you should relabel your old C: drive to another letter.

Then set your old cloned drive to inactive by right click/modify/set inactive. You should still be able to read it just not boot from it.

Don't forget to apply the changes then reboot to SSD.

That should solve your issue.

If you are really game then delete the System reserved boot partition off the drive you don't want to boot again. Beware this tool is powerful.

Also if you have a spare drive somewhere you could make another copy/clone of the drive you want to keep just as a backup using copy disc function in minitool, for just in case you really screw it up.

Good luck.

EDIT1:

Changing the boot priority did nothing.

Must have done something as now you have BSOD, you should be able to get back into bios; return bios settings to the way they were & start again.

The question in my head is why use both drives as clones?? If the SSD was working correctly till you put the old drive back in, then just take the old drive out or format it, repartition it & use it for storage or backup purposes.

[hughdman]

This thing is weird. Ok I booted it up today BSOD. I then went through and told it to do a system restore from 2 days ago, and that fixed the BSOD, I'm now recloning the drive on to an external, as I was so panicked that I lost my data. MYOB data which I didn't want to retype out all over.

When I get home I'm going to clone the external back to the SSD.

I've got a bizarre feeling that, I might off wiped the SSD after cloning the drive to it, first time round.

I'm pretty sure that the plan would of been clone to ssd , then wipe old hd and use it as a d drive.

Hmmm, this thing is baffling

BIOS sees 2 drives, but doesn't want to load when both are connected

I will test again tonight, then go out and buy an Apple

[Philquad]

i always get too scared or lost trying to clone
why dont you just clean install to the new ssd + put some programs on
then use the old drive as data? thats all i did recently, plus the old drive still boots into windows if i was really stuck.
you would have had it done by now for all the friggin around

[hughdman]

I can't clean install, as the disc/software I have is limited to the pc.
ie I bought office for $15 but it only allowed install on 2 computers.
The windows was an upgrades IIRC for $15.00

It was a lot easier, years ago with those jumper pins.

I find it bizarre that by changing the cables around made the computer BSOD, then winding back the system restore fixed it.

Farkin Windows, Farkin Android.

[hughdman]

Ok, I bought a docking station, and same shit. I tried it on another computer same thing.

Today I bought a new one for my work computer and plugged it in, up it sprang, allowed me to intiialize it, assign it a letter etc.

It looks my old one is toast. (Hopefully the warranty process won't be a pain)

[Tiny]

Ahhh the old faulty new SSD trick.
That would be frustrating.
Hope you get it replaced.

[Philquad]

i havnt even tried a ssd drive
but i read that they dont last as long if you do a lot of read\write to them
i cleaned a old 320gb seagate drive the other day, it had 16gb of temp files on windows
+ the 5000 emails they had setup through hotmail to windows live mail
what a mess

[irwazza]

i havnt even tried a ssd drive
but i read that they dont last as long if you do a lot of read\write to them
i cleaned a old 320gb seagate drive the other day, it had 16gb of temp files on windows
+ the 5000 emails they had setup through hotmail to windows live mail
what a mess

If your reading that, find a new place to get your information...

[Dave001]

i havnt even tried a ssd drive
but i read that they dont last as long if you do a lot of read\write to them

Just checked, my SSD has 23656 Power-On Hours, no problems so far.

As irwazza said, find a new place to get your info.

[allover]

When i installed a SSD and tried to set up a HDD internally as back up etc (Win 8.1), had all types of problems, read a number of articles and it said not to use both discs in combo as they read and write at different speeds, pulled the HDD and now have it mounted as a an external, works a treat. As stated go back into BIOS and ensure SDD is boot disc, (although for some reason mine does not show it as the boot disc??)

[Softek2]

G’day everyone,
Thought I would keep this thread rather then start a new one as the circumstances are similar (my boot is also size 12).

I am also having problems with my new SSD. Some time ago I was given advice to purchase a hybrid drive for my old XP machine. I lashed out and bought a Seagate momentous 750 GB hybrid drive as an upgrade.
After cloning the existing IDE drive using a different machine and a copy of Acronis I reinstalled the new drive to the old box also removing the existing C: drive. After a quick BIOS adjustment everything ran as per normal with the exception of a few pieces of registered software which needed confirmation of authenticity again. I was so impressed by the increase in performance I decided to invest in a new SSD from fleaBay, ended up buying a 1 TB (Samsung EVO) for less than $600. I immediately cloned the new drive from the hybrid (Acronis advised “clone successful”) and installed it to the desktop machine. Unfortunately the SSD will not boot in the desktop. I keep getting an error message “read error”, installing this as a slave drive in any machine provides access to all data on that drive. Thinking there may be something special about cloning I resorted to the use of data migration software provided with the new SSD. Once again a “successful clone” message appeared on the screen I duly removed the old drive leaving just the SSD and again failure to boot. I have now tried several scenarios on different machines (all with XP) without success. I also tried a clean new XP install which went right through to the reboot and again failed to read. One thing I have noticed is that the new drive is only 1 GB in the BIOS. Perhaps someone on the forum here may be able to help before I try to re-invent the wheel.

[Tiny]

My favourite diagnostic tool for HDD is minitool partition magic live CD

When you boot into this disc you are no longer relying on Bios or windows to tell you the truth.
So have a look, Acronis also has a partition manager disc if you have that it is very similar.

This is what a healthy cloned drive looks like on my Vista laptop.