Everything has been working just fine until I tried to come out of hibernation this evening, it took maybe 18 tries before it saw the SSD and booted - kept telling me there was no boot device. Maybe...
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Everything has been working just fine until I tried to come out of hibernation this evening, it took maybe 18 tries before it saw the SSD and booted - kept telling me there was no boot device. Maybe...
So I've been using my E6520 all day today, a couple of hibernates but no reboots yet. I have a few theories on what may be (have been) wrong:
1. The boot sector was corrupted and spapakons' idea...
OK, I managed to uninstall Acronis but, after the removal, I couldn't boot at all. So I tried the Win 7 DVD method you suggested, and made the SSD active, it had 1 failed boot but second time it...
BIOS is set to 'legacy' and there's only 1 boot drive now, the SSD. How do I 'repair startup'?
Regarding my edit in the last post - What do you think about Acronis as maybe causing the issue? Is...
Hmmm, so I was happily enjoying the speed of my new SSD and then I did a restart and got the 'no boot device found' error again. I pressed the 'any key to reboot' and, after 4 tries, it booted into...
spapakons,
Thanks for all your help but the crazy thing is that, I put in the SSD and started the laptop expecting it not to boot and with my Windows 7 DVD in hand and IT BOOTED!!!! I haven't a...
spapakons,
Thanks for the suggestions.
I do have a Windows 7 DVD that I can boot from but, as a check of understanding, is this what you suggest I do...
1. Install SSD into SATA drive bay...
I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with a Seagate Momentus XT ST95005620AS HDD, i7 CPU, Nvidia NVS4200M dedicated graphics, and 16 Gigs RAM. It has run Windows 7, 64 bit for several years like a champ.
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