moondoggie86
HosHstYle
Good day gents (and ladies),
I need some advice. I'll firstly give some exposition lol.
I've got a laptop with a 500gb WD Blue HDD. Bought a Crucial BX500 SSD. Proceeded with installing Windows/ Linux on the SSD. It does the first part of the installations (copying the files to the SSD) but when it restarts it's almost like it can't access the MBR of the SSD to install (just get the underscore line and then restarts). So the laptop will restart twice and upon the third attempt boot into BIOS for the user to fix whatever is wrong.
I've tried changing the media installation iso, settings (MBR vs GPT) etc. with no luck.
I've tried changing from UEFI to Legacy, changing SATA controller from AHCI to IDE, disabling Secure Boot (needed for Linux) with no luck.
I thought that the SSD might be faulty (albeit bought new a few days ago) and tried to install windows on my spare pc. Installed Windows and Linux with no problems. HD Sentinel indicates that drive is perfect.
So, SSD doesn't seem to be at fault so on to the next solution. Right, so I take the SSD from the spare pc and install in the laptop (way back you could swop drives into another pc and it would load windows fine, circa Win 7 I think). Still the same problem. Right next solution.
I install windows on the 500gb and then clone the drive to the SSD...should work perfectly right. Nope, same problem. Now I'm thinking that a BIOS update might fix the issue (BIOS dated 2014). Unfortunately the executables on the manufacturer site doesn't work. Gives a bunch of errors (tried on Win 7 and 10).
I don't feel like returning the SSD as it work perfectly on my other machine and rather use it in an USB 3.0 external enclosure. It seems that the WD Blue drive isn't running as well as it should and I'm going to clone the drive to a WD Black HDD (power on time ~ 2 days, perfect health & performance).
Now to my question lol. Would there be any improvement to game load times if I use the SSD in an enclosure (USB 3.0) compared to a mechanical HDD? I know it wouldn't run as fast as having it natively installed in the laptop but I digress (watching too much JAYZ videos lol).
Dankie baie! Comments appreciated and judgement on said comments will be done behind your back
I need some advice. I'll firstly give some exposition lol.
I've got a laptop with a 500gb WD Blue HDD. Bought a Crucial BX500 SSD. Proceeded with installing Windows/ Linux on the SSD. It does the first part of the installations (copying the files to the SSD) but when it restarts it's almost like it can't access the MBR of the SSD to install (just get the underscore line and then restarts). So the laptop will restart twice and upon the third attempt boot into BIOS for the user to fix whatever is wrong.
I've tried changing the media installation iso, settings (MBR vs GPT) etc. with no luck.
I've tried changing from UEFI to Legacy, changing SATA controller from AHCI to IDE, disabling Secure Boot (needed for Linux) with no luck.
I thought that the SSD might be faulty (albeit bought new a few days ago) and tried to install windows on my spare pc. Installed Windows and Linux with no problems. HD Sentinel indicates that drive is perfect.
So, SSD doesn't seem to be at fault so on to the next solution. Right, so I take the SSD from the spare pc and install in the laptop (way back you could swop drives into another pc and it would load windows fine, circa Win 7 I think). Still the same problem. Right next solution.
I install windows on the 500gb and then clone the drive to the SSD...should work perfectly right. Nope, same problem. Now I'm thinking that a BIOS update might fix the issue (BIOS dated 2014). Unfortunately the executables on the manufacturer site doesn't work. Gives a bunch of errors (tried on Win 7 and 10).
I don't feel like returning the SSD as it work perfectly on my other machine and rather use it in an USB 3.0 external enclosure. It seems that the WD Blue drive isn't running as well as it should and I'm going to clone the drive to a WD Black HDD (power on time ~ 2 days, perfect health & performance).
Now to my question lol. Would there be any improvement to game load times if I use the SSD in an enclosure (USB 3.0) compared to a mechanical HDD? I know it wouldn't run as fast as having it natively installed in the laptop but I digress (watching too much JAYZ videos lol).
Dankie baie! Comments appreciated and judgement on said comments will be done behind your back
