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I have an older HP G56 laptop which I wanted to upgrade. So I took my Kingston SSDNOW V100 64GB SSD and put it into the laptop, figuring it would be an easy process to just reformat during installation of Windows 7. But with the SSD in the laptop, it doesn't proceed past the very first screen with the black background, blue and white HP logo in the middle, and "Press esc for more boot options" in the lower left hand corner. It is completely unresponsive. Pressing any key does nothing, but after having pressed 5-10 keys it will start beeping with each key press. Swapping back to the old HDD works fine.
Strangely, it's just a matter of getting into the BIOS then it's bootable. If I have the HDD plugged in, and begin booting but go into BIOS, and then hot swap to the SDD while in BIOS, I can boot from the SSD. I then exit the BIOS, get the blinking underscore in the upper left hand corner of the screen (as it begins looking for boot devices) and it boots into the Windows 7 that was already on the SSD. The laptop works perfectly fine with it once it can actually get a chance to boot from it.
I checked into SSD firmware and by comparing the numbers to those on Kingston's website it would appear mine does not have the older firmware causing failure, mine came from the factory with the latest firmware.
This isn't feasible... I can't bring a screwdriver and a spare HDD with me every time I want to boot up my laptop. I can't just keep it in sleep 24/7 because of the battery being older and weaker. It would be way too easy to have it accidentally run empty.
Has anybody ever experienced anything like this? What did you do to resolve it? Is this an issue with the laptop not supporting booting from SSDs? Would a newer SSD work better, worse? I've tried searching the net and these forums and haven't been able to turn up anyone in this scenario. Before buying another SSD I wanted to see if I could find out what to expect.
Thanks in advance.
Strangely, it's just a matter of getting into the BIOS then it's bootable. If I have the HDD plugged in, and begin booting but go into BIOS, and then hot swap to the SDD while in BIOS, I can boot from the SSD. I then exit the BIOS, get the blinking underscore in the upper left hand corner of the screen (as it begins looking for boot devices) and it boots into the Windows 7 that was already on the SSD. The laptop works perfectly fine with it once it can actually get a chance to boot from it.
I checked into SSD firmware and by comparing the numbers to those on Kingston's website it would appear mine does not have the older firmware causing failure, mine came from the factory with the latest firmware.
This isn't feasible... I can't bring a screwdriver and a spare HDD with me every time I want to boot up my laptop. I can't just keep it in sleep 24/7 because of the battery being older and weaker. It would be way too easy to have it accidentally run empty.
Has anybody ever experienced anything like this? What did you do to resolve it? Is this an issue with the laptop not supporting booting from SSDs? Would a newer SSD work better, worse? I've tried searching the net and these forums and haven't been able to turn up anyone in this scenario. Before buying another SSD I wanted to see if I could find out what to expect.
Thanks in advance.