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Thread ID: 138663	2015-01-03 02:35:00	SSD woes	Jayess64 (8703)	Press F1

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1391390	2015-01-03 02:35:00	Not so much a request for help as a frustrated rant... A couple of days before Christmas (ie last week) I replaced the system HD in my desktop with a Samsung 840 EVO 256GB SSD. Everything went smoothly, and the transfer of the OS (Win 7 x64) and installed apps gave no problems. Now I could enjoy the fast startup times I had been hearing about, and everything was roses. Until this morning, when the system would not boot. I tried a system repair from the Windows installation disc, but no luck - a message to the effect that "a repair is not compatible with this system". So I tried to restore the image I had made with Acronis when the SSD was first installed, once again no luck. Acronis could see the SSD and its partitions, but the main partition was shown as 'Primary', but not active. Trying to restore the image just gave an error. Getting a bit desperate, I decided to reformat and do a clean install of Windows. I could remove the existing partitions, and the reformat appeared to work, but installation failed with one of those Windows hex error messages that don't say anything to mere mortals. Finally, I replaced the SSD with the HD I had removed last week, everything sprang into life and I am back on the air. All in all, not a happy experience. I know SSDs have finite lifetimes, but one week seems a bit rich. Of course it's under warranty and I can get it replaced, but I am wondering if all the hassle is worth it to get a faster startup and app load times. Is this experience at all common, or did I catch an unlucky lightning bolt?	Jayess64 (8703)
1391391	2015-01-03 02:57:00	Trying to restore the image just gave an error.------- installation failed with one of those Windows hex error messages Without those error messages it could be simply a guess as to what the problem is :) Can you supply the full error messages ? Those codes do mean something, you just have to know how to interpret them. Drives do fail at any time, and doesn't matter how old (or new) they are. I've had on rare occasions brand new Standard HDD's fail while window is installing.	wainuitech (129)
1391392	2015-01-03 04:54:00	Without those error messages it could be simply a guess as to what the problem is :) Can you supply the full error messages ? Those codes do mean something, you just have to know how to interpret them. Drives do fail at any time, and doesn't matter how old (or new) they are. I've had on rare occasions brand new Standard HDD's fail while window is installing. Yes, what I should have done was note down the messages. Unfortunately, I was more intent on chewing the carpet, but thanks for responding. I'll take the corpse back to PB Tech on Monday and ask for a replacement.	Jayess64 (8703)
1391393	2015-01-03 19:47:00	Just bad luck. I've been using one of those drives for about a year with no trouble but one report is useless statistically, of course.	linw (53)
1391394	2015-01-03 20:50:00	Just bad luck. I've been using one of those drives for about a year with no trouble but one report is useless statistically, of course. I have been using mine without problems for at least 3 years so the stats are now twice as good in favour of SSDs :)	CliveM (6007)
1391395	2015-01-05 03:39:00	I have been using mine without problems for at least 3 years so the stats are now twice as good in favour of SSDs :) Picked up a replacement from PB Tech this morning, running OK at the moment. Based on the statistics in this thread, I have a 33% chance of another quick failure. Talk about sucker for punishment! The Samsung software for cloning the drive doesn't impress. Once it is installed you can't seem to uninstall it although it shows up in the Programs and Features of Windows Control Panel. Nothing seems to happen. Because I had already installed it on my HD, and tried to uninstall it after the first cloning, when I tried to reinstall it for the replacement drive it kept asking if I wanted to uninstall. If I said 'no' the installer closed down; if I said 'yes' it pretended to uninstall, but otherwise did nothing. In the end I had to chase down every occurence of "Data Migration" in the registry and swat each one. Life shouldn't be this difficult.	Jayess64 (8703)
1391396	2015-01-05 04:21:00	I've now bought 4 SSD's in total over the last 2 years and none have failed, that improves your statistics a bit. You just got unlucky I'd suggest.	dugimodo (138)
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