Disk read error occurred - after new SSD...
Hi there.
I have a new Lenovo W520 "born" with a stanard HDD. I started cloning the HDD to an older SSD I had in my old laptop. That all worked fine, but of course I wanted to take advantage of the SATA-3 port in the laptop.
I got the fast Kingston HyperX SSD and cloned my old SSD to the new faster SSD. Sounds like piece of cake, huh? 20 minutes, and the cloning was done. Ready to boot... but no... "Disk read error occurred". I tried once more... and even once more... same result all the time. A very "funny" thing is, that it's booting fine when I placed the SSD in an older laptop... but it won't in my new one.
WHYYYYY???? I'm about to throw the whole junk out of the window... but I better not, since it's at work. :o) I better add, that I'm bound to Windows XP SP3, and my new laptop also has a password to the BIOS, so I can't mess around with that, unless I sell my soul to the devil and make the systemadministrator/IT-dep
And on top of all, now my old SSD won't boot either. That also gives the "Disk read error occurred" message. Oh.. and I don't have the option to enter the BIOS at all (pressing the ThinkVantage button).
Any idea what's wrong??? I scanned the disc for errors... none... Beside... it can boot fine in an old laptop (with no password on BIOS).
I would appreciate any help on this issue... it's so annoying. I looked forward to this super fast SSD... and now no SSD at all... copying a billion files to the original HDD... :-(
I also need to add, that the SSD's works fine from the USB-enclosure...
Best regards
Ullenulle
I have a new Lenovo W520 "born" with a stanard HDD. I started cloning the HDD to an older SSD I had in my old laptop. That all worked fine, but of course I wanted to take advantage of the SATA-3 port in the laptop.
I got the fast Kingston HyperX SSD and cloned my old SSD to the new faster SSD. Sounds like piece of cake, huh? 20 minutes, and the cloning was done. Ready to boot... but no... "Disk read error occurred". I tried once more... and even once more... same result all the time. A very "funny" thing is, that it's booting fine when I placed the SSD in an older laptop... but it won't in my new one.
WHYYYYY???? I'm about to throw the whole junk out of the window... but I better not, since it's at work. :o) I better add, that I'm bound to Windows XP SP3, and my new laptop also has a password to the BIOS, so I can't mess around with that, unless I sell my soul to the devil and make the systemadministrator/IT-dep
And on top of all, now my old SSD won't boot either. That also gives the "Disk read error occurred" message. Oh.. and I don't have the option to enter the BIOS at all (pressing the ThinkVantage button).
Any idea what's wrong??? I scanned the disc for errors... none... Beside... it can boot fine in an old laptop (with no password on BIOS).
I would appreciate any help on this issue... it's so annoying. I looked forward to this super fast SSD... and now no SSD at all... copying a billion files to the original HDD... :-(
I also need to add, that the SSD's works fine from the USB-enclosure...
Best regards
Ullenulle
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Hi.
It's not that easy... first of all, I wrote, that I'm bound to Windows XP. It's not an installation from Lenovo, but an image made in the IT-department. But that's not the problem...
I had my old SSD working just fine... I cloned my old SSD to the new one. Then the trouble began...
Second: I did the HDD to SSD when I got my new laptop.. no problems there...
Best regards
Ullenulle
It's not that easy... first of all, I wrote, that I'm bound to Windows XP. It's not an installation from Lenovo, but an image made in the IT-department. But that's not the problem...
I had my old SSD working just fine... I cloned my old SSD to the new one. Then the trouble began...
Second: I did the HDD to SSD when I got my new laptop.. no problems there...
Best regards
Ullenulle
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Hi again.
Sorry for my late response. Yes, I tried cloning the disk image as well as the disk. Same result. But after some communication with Kingston, I have to try to enable AHCI in the BIOS and reinstall the computer, or do some other trick to make sure, that the necessary driver is installed for AHCI. I will write about that some time next week. I'm out travelling right now. :-)
I know about TRIM, but Windows XP should be able to run on the fast SSD though. It did fine on a older SSD with no problems.
Aaaaaaaaaand the SSD has got the latest firmware.
Best regards
Ullenulle
Sorry for my late response. Yes, I tried cloning the disk image as well as the disk. Same result. But after some communication with Kingston, I have to try to enable AHCI in the BIOS and reinstall the computer, or do some other trick to make sure, that the necessary driver is installed for AHCI. I will write about that some time next week. I'm out travelling right now. :-)
I know about TRIM, but Windows XP should be able to run on the fast SSD though. It did fine on a older SSD with no problems.
Aaaaaaaaaand the SSD has got the latest firmware.
Best regards
Ullenulle
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Callandor provided useful information about cloning the image and not only the disc. That was a help. But I solved the real problem (enabling AHCI) alone with support from Kingston. :-)
disk cloning from hdd to ssd is a non recommended action, because Operation Systems use other mechanisms on HDDs than on SSDs, which are configures during Installation.
Try to install the operating System and Application to the SSD and copy the data to the new ssd.
Lenovo Laptops typically ship with a recovery partition to restore, maybe this partition is still useable?
Shrek