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New SSD system won't boot
I have a pretty old system that I have been doing a little upgrading on. Current specs are reflected in my profile. Plan was to replace the old 128gb ssd and spinner HDD with a 2TB ssd (Wester Digital Blue) and do a fresh win10 install on it.
The system was working fine before I tried the ssd replacement, if a little sluggish (add'l RAM is on the way too).
I used the media creation tool from MS to create a bootable Win10 usb stick. I set the BIOS to boot from USB first. I then removed the old SSD, and installed the new SSD. System would not boot. Well, I don't know what it did, because it would not initiate the display. So it may have booted and I don't know.
I swapped the SSDs again, and system booted fine. Rebooted and checked BIOS, and everything was fine. I even ensured both video sources were active (GPU card, and the i7's intel HD graphics). Rebooted checking both video output methods, all ok. Swapped SSDs again, screen would not initiate, with either video out source.
This time I connected both SSDs and system booted fine, but windows did not recognize the new SSD in Windows Explorer. I rebooted to BIOS, and the BIOS showed the new SSD as a slave to the optical drive..... huh?
Decided to disconnect all drives but SSDs, and moved each SSD to separate SATA channels. Rebooted to BIOS, now each SSD is shown as a master on separate channels. OK. Rebooted again, and.... nothing. Display won't initiate, even with old SSD.
At this point I went to bed. :)
Is there anything anyone can think of I'm doing wrong? Do I simply have a bad SSD? Or is my mobo / chipset failing? Does the old Intel z68 chipset SATA controller have an issue with such a large SSD (2TB)?
Thanks for any tips/ideas/suggestions/commiserations....