Solid State Drive problems

[Terryl]

Well I've had my first SSD failure, the SSD** hard drive in my laptop went fooiey last night, I powered it on to check for any antivirus updates and system updates and the message "Please load an operating system" popped up, wow I don't use this laptop that much and don't rough house it around and it's only 6 years old.

So I did the internal BIOS trouble shooting and it popped up with "no operating system found, check cables for proper seating or connection to hard drive".

So I took it apart and everything was connected correctly, I removed the hard drive (Seagate 500 G and ran an external check, it turned up dead no connection to the tester, nothing.

So a new one is on the way, it's a Sandisk 1TB, I've had very good luck with that brand, all my computers run them.

By the way tiring to take apart one of those thin HP laptop's is a big hair pulling job, I almost threw it against the wall several times.

** SSD= Solid State Drive, no internal moving parts it's all IC chips .

 

[Gladstones]

I hope you did not lose important data
Good luck reinstalling new windows
better install win 11

 

[Terryl]

I hope you did not lose important data
Good luck reinstalling new windows
better install win 11

I can't install 11 as the laptop is too old.

 

[Lazarus]

I hope you did not lose important data
Good luck reinstalling new windows
better install win 11

Do knowledgeable people still use Microsoft Operating Systems?

 

[Channel Hopper]

Well I've had my first SSD failure, the SSD** hard drive in my laptop went fooiey last night, I powered it on to check for any antivirus updates and system updates and the message "Please load an operating system" popped up, wow I don't use this laptop that much and don't rough house it around and it's only 6 years old.

So I did the internal BIOS trouble shooting and it popped up with "no operating system found, check cables for proper seating or connection to hard drive".

So I took it apart and everything was connected correctly, I removed the hard drive (Seagate 500 G and ran an external check, it turned up dead no connection to the tester, nothing.

So a new one is on the way, it's a Sandisk 1TB, I've had very good luck with that brand, all my computers run them.

By the way tiring to take apart one of those thin HP laptop's is a big hair pulling job, I almost threw it against the wall several times.

** SSD= Solid State Drive, no internal moving parts it's all IC chips .

SSDs can fail if not charged up every now and then (unlike platters)

There are sites dealing specifically, I found the best fix was put fuel (charge) the PC for at least 48 hours before renegaging and it might understand it is an essential part of the system..

(Much like drone batteries)