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| Thread ID: 148187 | 2019-08-31 23:26:00 | W10 on M.2 NVMe not opening | kioti (17360) | Press F1 |
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| 1463491 | 2019-09-04 10:16:00 | Im guessing you're someone whos reluctant to give up :) .. so In case you havnt tried allready www.easeus.com "What is an EFI system partition and why you cannot delete it" "Change EFI system partition ID and set it as a data partition" you use diskpart with "SET ID=ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7" I saw someone advise to turn off secure boot in the bios . Try that ? After all this It may just be a faulty drive . That might explain why nothing works 1101, hi :D yep that's me, the terrible twins in one persona. I just tried to delete the EFI system partition from the guide shown in the link you supplied.. it stated it had successfully deleted the partition, typed exit, checked the MP300 in Easus Partition Master and it is still there in full song. :D I will do some more reading and attempts to do things as are shown in the links you supplied a bit later. Right now I am about to remove a dinner I have been roasting and that takes priority over a more stubborn than me SSD and Op System. Thanks for the links and help. I will test them later. cheers |
kioti (17360) | ||
| 1463492 | 2019-09-04 10:24:00 | Silly question but have you checked that you have the latest BIOS for the motherboard? Just a thought! Bryan hi. Not silly question at all. Bios is the latest as far as I know.... I updated to it about 8 week ago. I was considering that perhaps t has become corrupted and I should remove and re-intall it... the new one I dloaded / installed 6-8 weeks ago I have it saved. I will do a check for a new BIOS shortly. Thanks |
kioti (17360) | ||
| 1463493 | 2019-09-04 10:49:00 | chiefnz hi. I attempted to create a WinPE Bootable USB of Disk Genius Partition Manager, booted from it but it failed to open into Disk Genius so I couldn't perform any tasks. I have a plan of attack :D which can wait until I am fed and rested. I went to the Courier and collected my parcel, I now have an Intel 660P Series 512B M.2 NVMe SSD and will be removing the Corsair MP300 NVMe SSD, installing the new Intel M.2 NVMe, initialise and set it to be a GPT Partition Table, install W10 x64 v1903 onto it, get it up and running and instal Disk Genius to it and again make a WinPE Bootable USB if Disk Genius and hope that it creates a UEFI / GPT version and not the MBR Partition Table as it did last time ...as I said it may have created the UEFI / MBR WinPE USB drive of the Disk Genius app because when I created it, I was doing it from the Samsung EVO860 SSD which is an MBR Partition Table. Just a thought, of which I have had Many. It is a battle of wits...me the mortal against an AI machine running on renewable Stem Cell feeds in its 'bloodstream'. :d ciao for now...my evening meal beckons and I cannot keep a good lady in suspenders. Just maybe, I will out the MP300, install the Intel 660P Series 512B M.2 NVMe SSD, initialise it, set it to be GPT Partiton table and see if I can instal W10 to it before I retire to bed. Simply to see if it allows me to install the OS without telling me that I cannot install to a GPT drive. :D cheers. |
kioti (17360) | ||
| 1463494 | 2019-09-04 12:19:00 | After reading 1101's post I'm thinking the same thing, There could be either a Hardware fault someplace OR something else thats not so obvious is going on. While waiting for a couple of customers laptops to upgrade I did the following. Pulled a Image of my basic Workshop PC from my server and dropped it on a SSD drive, took about 10 minutes - booted fine- then booted the computer from a CD containing a few versions older of Paragon Hard Disk Manger 15 .?? I think ( YES I have a few different pieces of software that do similar tasks) :D Changed / Converted the Drive to GPT, on reboot totally screwed the boot, no bootable device ( that's what I expected) Rebooted from the Paragon CD, double checked it had converted fine to GPT, (the option was there to convert to MBR if I wanted) , rebooted from a standard Windows 10 1903 DVD, when it got to the partition options, had no problems removing all the partitions to a completely empty drive, and did a complete install. wainuitech hi. I also had Paragon Disk Partitioner app on a DVD supplied with a Monthly PC World Magazine, back in about 2008. The first disk backup app I ever had. Anyway, I think that is well gone from my archives :D I will be looking into all that you have said in your post and be trying as many things as I can do to get that MP300 usable again. I have no intention of restoring it and using it again. It has now been superseded by the Intel 660P Series 512B M.2 NVMe SSD which I received this afternoon. I will not be 'cloning' the W10 x64 v1903 I installed to the Samsung EVO 860 SSD, all will be Fresh installations, done in a timely fashion. The Corsair MP300 NVMe SSD will be placed back into its original packaging and put aside for me to work on as an exercise and learning curve. I have a few things to consider re: the new M.2 NVMe..... Motherboard BIOS (check it is not corrupted, maybe get another Mobo to run the Ryzen 5 2400G and the MP300 SSD, or purchase a used 1st gen AMD Ryzen5 1400 or 1600 or 1700 that I can drop into the Gigabyte AB350M-D3H I have sitting here never been used. I have all parts bar a CPU/ APU... or I could get a move on and assemble a beautiful water cooled rig I have here that, was given to me for a very good price of just pay the Courier parcel post cost from Weymouth, Auckland, North Island to here, Dunedin. Otago, South Island, NZ.I am not sure now what the CPU is in it but it is Intel, has 24GB G[Skill Ripjaws DDR4 RAM, will accept the MP300 SSD, Motherboard is Asus PBZ77-V LX, PCIe 3.0.....basically all it needs is a Tower Case, Hard drive (M.2 NVME) or a sat HDDm,PSU, Optic Drive and for me to figure out the setting up of a water cooling system. I was offered all of the computer hardware back in early Jan this year,,,when I was posting here about all the grief I was having that was identical failure using 2 different motherboards and a set group of two parts: The AMD Athlon IIx4 630, 2.8GHz CPU, the 550 or 350 Watt psu's and the 8GB DDR3 RAM. Neither if the 'rigs' would boot at all. So one of our fellows here in PF1 offered me the hardware. I think it is about time I showed some respect and get the parts assembled and up and running. The person who gave me the hardware said he would help me with any questions I needed to be made clear on. So yep, it is time I put the hardware together and have another computer to use. So, Press F! fellow, Denver Williams, I will be emailing or PM'ing you from here in PF1 some time in the very near future. Oki doki folks..... I am now going to have some of my very late evening meal and contemplate if I am going to out all HDD's from My computer, install the new NVMe SSD and see if I cn get W10 installed before I retire to bed and sleep :D Installation of W10 will take no time at all, I remember when I first installed W10 to the Corsair Force MP300 NVMe SSD ...it was completed in under 10 minutes. I hadn't finished drinking a cuppa tea I'd made or a cigarette I had rolled and lit, at start of installing W10...... 16GB DDR 4 and a 3.8GHz Ryzen 5 2400G Apu crunching them numbers faster than I could imagine. Ok so enough of the chit chat... this is Press F1.... not a Social Media get together. I will do the installing of W10 to the new M.2 SSD.... let it update overnight. cheers and thanks to you all. garry |
kioti (17360) | ||
| 1463495 | 2019-09-04 16:58:00 | Did you not read my post saying to go to the Corsair website and download and install their SSD toolbox software? It will also allow you to update the drives FIRMWARE. Worth a try |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 1463496 | 2019-09-04 18:20:00 | apsattv hi. yes I did go to Corsair website, downloaded and installed the SSD Corsair Toolbox software and opened it. What it showed was the Samsung EVO 860 SSD. I posted a pic showing exactly what it had opened. Now I will mention this again: WHY is a Corsair SSD Toolbox Not opening and displaying the info for the Corsair M.2 NVMe SSD and opening/displaying the info for a NON Corsair SSD? Also, WHY is it that when I go into BIOS and choose either the "Windows Boot Manager (Corsair Force MP300) to boot and press F10 to save the changes, I get told that I have not made any changes, and when the computer Boots it presents PreOS onscreen the notice saying to enter a device with an Op Sys on it,,,,,so go back into BIOS, select to boot from the Corsair Force MP300 option, press F10, get told I have made no Changes, and when Com starts I am again Presented with the same massage telling me to choose a proper boot device??????????????????? THEN, if I choose to press the F8 key when I restart the computer and get the Boot Menu, I choose the 'Windows Boot Manager Force MP300) option and it opens the W10 OS on the Samsung EVO 860 SSD , ........it does the same when in the Press F8/Boot Menu and I choose the option "Corsair Force MP300" as the Boot option, The Samsung EVO 860 SSD and W10 on it opens???????????????????? To my brain, That tells me that there is some form of Corruption ...where I do not know and as I said earlier or last night...it is either in the BIOS/UEFI, the Corsair Force MP300 SSD Partition Table, or in the W10 OS Boot loader (EFI Partition) I replied to your post yesterday in which you suggested I get the SSD Corsair Toolbox, I attached the pic showing that it opened up the Samsung SSD and with no offence, apsattv, I am sick to the back teeth with the MP300 SSD and the 'problems' I have had with it. I have spent 3-4 days, 15 hours a day, trying everything available to me to get that SSD Freed up, so I can wipe it clean, delete all partitions, get it as a 240GB Unallocated space NVMe SSD and nothing has succeeded. 2 hours ago, I installed the new Intel 512GB M2 NVMe SSD, have installed W10 x 64 v1903 onto it and it is running well. It installed as MBR Partition Table, I didn't get an option to choose MBR or GPT before install begann and at the end of that I discovered it was MBR Partition Table. So, I insatalled Easeus Partition Master and coverted MBR to GPT. I wanted GPT because I wanted to create a WinPE Bootable USB drive of Disk Genius as UEFI/GPT so I could use Wipe out the locked Corsair Force MP300 M.2 NVMe SSD partitions and EFI partition. To as I said already...to have 240GB OF Usable NVMe SSD instead of the as good as dead piece of hardware in the only M'2 NVMe socket on the Mobo I have Well, The MP300 is back in its box and the Intel 512 GB M.2 NVMe SSD is filling the M'2 socket now and it is fully functional. W10 x64 v1903 is installed and running sweet as. Thats the way, a huh, a huh, a huh, I like it, a-huh, a-huh a-huh. The MP300 has been retired. Thanks for you help and suggestions, apsattv, Very much appreciated indeed. cheers garry |
kioti (17360) | ||
| 1463497 | 2019-09-05 10:32:00 | apsattv hi. I realised that I may well have not attempted to access the Mp300 SSD in the Corsair Toolbox because when it opened and I saw the Samsung SSD and thought well there ya go... lts not working because the Samsung SSD was opening when I chose the Windows Boot Manager (Force MP300) or the Force MP300 entries that I had to choose from the Boot Menu I get from pressing the F8 key at PreOS screen. As I said, if I click t use any option for the MP300 in either BIOS or the F8 Boot menu, The MP300 doesn't open. Selecting them in BIOS gets me the PreOS message to Use a device with a boot device or add one from boot media. But the use of th Windows Boot Manager (Force MP300) or the Force MP300 entries that I get in the F8> Boot Menu will open the Samsung Evo 860 SSD to W10. Absurd really. That is why I say thee is corruption somewhere in the MP300, the BIOS or an a haystack somewhere. I ran the Corsair Toolbox again and chose the MP300 disk to be assessed. All the tests I looked at were showing no errors and the only one that failed was when used the Format Disk option. It said it was Done...but it had not done a format of the MP300. So I getting this a lot...many progs I used to Format the MP300 said it was done but it hadn't been done at all. Here are three attached pics of the attempted Secure Wipe. They and many others are in the WinRAR file I uploaded to MediaFire and put a link to that file here www.mediafire.com Reason given for the failure is "Error"Sharing Violation".... I have had that reason given many times from other apps I used to try to Wipe the MP300...,its Locked. being used by another app/service etc etc thanks for the suggestion to try Corsair Toolbox. garry |
kioti (17360) | ||
| 1463498 | 2019-09-05 10:43:00 | chiefnz hi. I created a bootable USB Drive of WinPE Easeus Partition Master, booted into it and tried many things to get the MP300 to Boot, Convert to MBR and to Wipe/Format the MP300 SSD. Convert GPT to MBR failed, said it has to be done in Windows..... tried to erase the entire MP300 Disk Partition/s, failed...then attempted to Format/delete the partitions separately, all failed and stated the same reason for it: "There are some error occurred writing Partition chains on disk". I uploaded an RAR folder of images I took using a mobile phone as I worked through the processes.... te images are not very clear and have to squint to see what is written onscreen, Sorry about that, chief :D www.mediafire.com cheers garry |
kioti (17360) | ||
| 1463499 | 2019-09-05 12:51:00 | Your Corsair MP300 NVMe SSD does seem to be faulty, I think you said it was still under guarantee so why not return it for a new one. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1463500 | 2019-09-05 13:25:00 | But did u check the corsairs drive firmware is current? I have fixed one before after firmware update on reboot and it went through a cleanup process on its own. |
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