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First post, by BEEN_Nath_58

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This issue has plague me for long, and it is probably time I ask about it.

I have an old PC, about 9 years and I changed the mobo about 4 years ago. It didn't have much problems until the recent months.

I took out it's SATA3 HDD and replaced witj a smaller SATA2 HDD because I needed the SATA3 space somewhere else. Again the PC became extraordinarily slow on S2 so I got an SSD.

SSD works fine and worked fine for about a month. Until one day I got a random critical error message that asks me to restart. That message plagues Win10 and Win11 across all my computers so it's not probably something dangerous.

I restarted as it prompted, and windows doesn't boot anymore. It's just stopped at the motherboard boot logo with drive activity light red.

I tried to utilise the SSD in another computer and it works fine there, so it's not dead.

Today I took a test again, I decided to reinstall Windows on the SSD but there was something odd: it took way TOO LONG to read a flash drive. To verify, I reconnected my already mounted HDD replacing SSD, and it loads faster. I don't know how flash drive got slower because of SSD.

And now I come to the installation part: I click on the Install button after selecting the drive, and it's 40 minutes and it's still not started the installation.

The SSD in Windows-phobic, can anyone explain what's happening?

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Reply 1 of 5, by keenmaster486

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Sounds like your SATA controller is dying.

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Reply 2 of 5, by Masaw

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try using another SATA cable and use the other SATA power of the PSU if there is a spare sata power connector. lastly, plug the sata cable into another sata slot in board, like SATA4 etc

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Reply 3 of 5, by BEEN_Nath_58

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Masaw wrote on 2023-04-06, 19:42:

try using another SATA cable and use the other SATA power of the PSU if there is a spare sata power connector. lastly, plug the sata cable into another sata slot in board, like SATA4 etc

I have like 4 sata cables and its same. Changing sata ports on board doesn't change anything. Same as the other PSU power port, it is the same.

keenmaster486 wrote on 2023-04-06, 19:17:

Sounds like your SATA controller is dying.

Thats something I didn't think. Is there some way to check?

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2023-04-06, 19:53:

Thats something I didn't think. Is there some way to check?

Try a different motherboard or controller card

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keenmaster486 wrote on 2023-04-06, 19:54:
BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2023-04-06, 19:53:

Thats something I didn't think. Is there some way to check?

Try a different motherboard or controller card

What I did was connect the SSD to a different computer to reinstall Windows. It didn't even detect the old installation. When trying to install, it was displaying an error in the Windows PE, the error got no results on googling. It didn't even detect the partitions.

Then I plugged in the SSD to my own PC, and for the first time in months, it detected the SSD, but not the previously installed Windows. The other computer could've been MBR, that failed to recognise the partition, but it was doing the same too in my own computer too. There was just an unformatted partition. So the culprit is SSD?

I then put in the slow HDD along with SSD, and both allowed the computer to boot Windows 7 for the first time in months. After a few minutes of boot, it detected the SSD and prompted to format it, and.... the SSD WAS WORKING.

I got back to installing Windows on it, and now it actually worked. Windows 7 did some formatting that PE couldn't?

And after boot it was working fine. It was not some damaged component probably that prevented the working of SSD. What makes me curious is the corrupted partition, how that happened? I don't know, but everything works now.

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