SSD on Vista works for a week then erases

[billy1murphy]

Hi There,
Installed a Samsung 850 EVO in an eight year old Sony Vaio VGN-N220e.

The operating system is Vista Home 32 bit ( Service Pack 2 ).

It works for a week and then erases itself.

It wont boot and reads as unallocated in linux GParted.

I dumped the mbr, and restored using Hirens mbrfix. Still wont boot.

I re-cloned from the old hard disk and the same thing happened a second time.

Is the back up and restore tool procedure in vista nuking the disk ?? Anyone heard of anything like this, I've looked around but havent found anything.

 

[Puffnstuff]

You probably need to do a clean install of vista and might even consider performing a secure erase on it to insure that everything gets cleared out of the mbr.

 

[VirtualLarry]

TRIM bug? But Vista doesn't do TRIM.... are you using Magician?

 

[MongGrel]

TRIM bug? But Vista doesn't do TRIM.... are you using Magician?

I hate Magician myself for the SSD's, I do not use myself.

Just my 2 cents.

That and why people gripe about using what amounts to an ancient OS these days and expect every thing to work perfectly.

 

[billy1murphy]

I'm using Magician.

It clones fine and works when installed.

I use it for a week and then on Sunday evenings, before the week gets under way, I start it from cold and it boots to flashing bar.

Its happened twice.

I too thought trim but then found out vista has no trim. Perhaps another housekeeping routine on the ssd ?

Does Hibernate create problems with SSDs ?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I would try a fresh install WITHOUT Magician, and see what happens.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Hi There,
Installed a Samsung 850 EVO in an eight year old Sony Vaio VGN-N220e.

The operating system is Vista Home 32 bit ( Service Pack 2 ).

It works for a week and then erases itself.

It wont boot and reads as unallocated in linux GParted.

I dumped the mbr, and restored using Hirens mbrfix. Still wont boot.

I re-cloned from the old hard disk and the same thing happened a second time.

Is the back up and restore tool procedure in vista nuking the disk ?? Anyone heard of anything like this, I've looked around but havent found anything.

I'd return that SSD. Vista or not, it's not supposed to happen. My fleet of 6-8 year old SONY VAIOs running fine on SSDs of different brands (mostly Intel and Toshiba though) without issues.

 

[Mike64]

That and why people gripe about using what amounts to an ancient OS these days and expect every thing to work perfectly.

That's just silly. If anything, the other way around would be more of an issue, ie, using an old product with an OS released after the product was designed.

This is clearly some sort of bug or product failure. Where the bug lies, I have no idea, but I've been using an SSD (an "ancient" SSD, as SSDs go, to boot, a Kingston V+100) with Vista (though 64-bit) for the past 4+ years without so much as a hiccough.

 

[billy1murphy]

I returned the disk.

To add a little experimentation, I purchased the bottom dollar SSD at the store. After all, they've been out for a while and i'm upgrading from a 5400 rpm spinning disk.

So, what did pinching $25 at the store get me.

Well, its boots faster than the spinning disk but noticeably slower than the Samsung. In fact, when I first booted, I thought id left the spinning disk in. Its probably about twice as fast as the spinning and half as fast as the Samsung.

I would not say that I saved $25.

Maybe I was just spoiled by the week or so the Samsung was up.

It also did not come with any Convenient cloning software.

Used clonzilla to switch over the data.

For now though, its working, will wait and see for how long.