xKraut
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I recently bought a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB from PCspecialist to replace the original Kingston V300 120GB.
Downloaded latest version of Data Migration and Magician.
Migrated the original C: Drive. Migration is successful.
Btw. C: Drive only holds the OS, my Installed Programs, my Lightroom Catalog and Photoshop Scratch Disk. All Data is on a 2TB WD Caviar Black.
Swapped the Kingston for the Samsung.
Enter BIOS, choose “Load Default” Save and all is well.
I then use Magician to set it up. (does seem just a bit flaky!?)
In Advanced Mode I choose the recommended settings i.e. Disable Hibernation; Indexing etc.
This doesn’t appear to work straight away (flaky?) but does eventually and I seem to have gained a few GB. But has it really?
To make sure I opened “Indexing Options” from Control Panel and find some 70+K items still indexed, mostly Images and Audio stuff.
I un-tick lots of stuff I believe I don’t need indexed. ( I use Lightroom so I figured I don`t need all my photos indexed.) Now why where they still there after Windows apparently removed them?
Please Note! During this session I also Upgraded my AVG 2014 to 2015.
I continue with other work for the rest of the day and all seems fine. perhaps not quite all, but can’t put my finger on it.
Now here it comes!
Next morning I turn on the Computer. I get to the Log-on Screen click on my account and everything but the Windows Splash Scree disappeared and that was it.
No Mouse, No Ctrl-Alt-Del Nothing!
Rebooted/Turn off a few times, same thing.
Went into Save Mode, checked for errors, found lots but who knows what all that means!
No Firewall, No AVG, No Malwarebytes
Under Problem Devices it showed:
1) AMDA00 Interface: Device not working cannot load drivers required. Driver update reports: Best Driver Loaded
2)Security Processor Loader: Device not present, not working or not all drivers installed.
Tried System Restore. Which runs and reports as completed but on reboot same as above. It even shows “Windows (Restored)” in Safe Mode.
Desperate Measures!?
Booting from Windows CD eventually works but none of the Repair Options do.
System Restore from recent Backup/Image fails. Unknown Error 0x80004005
Put the old SSD back an all is up and running.
Please who/what is at fault here? Me? Windows? Samsung Software or the SSD itself.
Any ideas greatly appreciated
Thanks
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer ASUS
System Model All Series (Motherboard: H81M-E Socket 1150)
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz, 3101 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0808, 06/01/2014
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.94 GB
Available Physical Memory 4.11 GB
Total Virtual Memory 15.9 GB
Available Virtual Memory 7.18 GB
Page File Space 7.94 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Downloaded latest version of Data Migration and Magician.
Migrated the original C: Drive. Migration is successful.
Btw. C: Drive only holds the OS, my Installed Programs, my Lightroom Catalog and Photoshop Scratch Disk. All Data is on a 2TB WD Caviar Black.
Swapped the Kingston for the Samsung.
Enter BIOS, choose “Load Default” Save and all is well.
I then use Magician to set it up. (does seem just a bit flaky!?)
In Advanced Mode I choose the recommended settings i.e. Disable Hibernation; Indexing etc.
This doesn’t appear to work straight away (flaky?) but does eventually and I seem to have gained a few GB. But has it really?
To make sure I opened “Indexing Options” from Control Panel and find some 70+K items still indexed, mostly Images and Audio stuff.
I un-tick lots of stuff I believe I don’t need indexed. ( I use Lightroom so I figured I don`t need all my photos indexed.) Now why where they still there after Windows apparently removed them?
Please Note! During this session I also Upgraded my AVG 2014 to 2015.
I continue with other work for the rest of the day and all seems fine. perhaps not quite all, but can’t put my finger on it.
Now here it comes!
Next morning I turn on the Computer. I get to the Log-on Screen click on my account and everything but the Windows Splash Scree disappeared and that was it.
No Mouse, No Ctrl-Alt-Del Nothing!
Rebooted/Turn off a few times, same thing.
Went into Save Mode, checked for errors, found lots but who knows what all that means!
No Firewall, No AVG, No Malwarebytes
Under Problem Devices it showed:
1) AMDA00 Interface: Device not working cannot load drivers required. Driver update reports: Best Driver Loaded
2)Security Processor Loader: Device not present, not working or not all drivers installed.
Tried System Restore. Which runs and reports as completed but on reboot same as above. It even shows “Windows (Restored)” in Safe Mode.
Desperate Measures!?
Booting from Windows CD eventually works but none of the Repair Options do.
System Restore from recent Backup/Image fails. Unknown Error 0x80004005
Put the old SSD back an all is up and running.
Please who/what is at fault here? Me? Windows? Samsung Software or the SSD itself.
Any ideas greatly appreciated
Thanks
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer ASUS
System Model All Series (Motherboard: H81M-E Socket 1150)
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz, 3101 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0808, 06/01/2014
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.94 GB
Available Physical Memory 4.11 GB
Total Virtual Memory 15.9 GB
Available Virtual Memory 7.18 GB
Page File Space 7.94 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys