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Chris Nicola
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The original 500 Gbt factory HDD running Win 7 home on my Lenovo G575 works fine. I decided to upgrade to a 240 Gbt SSD by cloning using Aomei Backupper. When I installed the ssd drive and pressed the start button, the screen hangs with a black screen and flashing cursor. After 10 minutes the Windows logo appears. After another 5 minutes it will boot normally.
I booted into a Win7 Home startup disk and chose startup repair. It said it found errors and fixed them and booted into windows fine. But on restarting I get the same black screen and flashing cursor.
I ran the startup disk again and this time it said it could not fix the errors and told me to remove any new hardware with the following report.
problem signature 02 6.1.7600.16385
problem signature 03 Unknown
problem signature 04 781
problem signature 05 External media
problem signature 06 1
problem signature 07 Bad Driver
OS version 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID 1033
The interesting thing is that after the failed attempted repair, the Win 7 startup disk gives the option to reboot. Then the computer boots into Windows on the ssd just fine. I tried Aomei boot repair without success. I also tried from scratch using Macrium clone Drive without success. I still get the hanging boot. I tried a Windows upgrade install. I deleted all partitions and did a clean Win 7 Home install. Still the same problem. The machine still hangs on the flashing underscore for 15 minutes before booting.
The strange thing is that it was booting fine while the clean Win 7 installation was running. After the install was finished, it cannot boot properly by itself. It can only boot instantly when commanded by the Windows installation media.
So what is making it stall for so long? Is the bios searching for a missing driver? The ssd has the latest firmware. The Lenovo laptop has the latest bios.
My final conclusion is that this particular ssd will not work on this machine due to an incompatible bios, motherboard or perhaps a missing driver. Left by itself it will eventually boot after 15 minutes. So the mbr is not the problem. Something is causing the boot to hang. Is there anything I can do to get the ssd to boot? Your thoughts would be appreciated.
Kind regards
Chris
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I booted into a Win7 Home startup disk and chose startup repair. It said it found errors and fixed them and booted into windows fine. But on restarting I get the same black screen and flashing cursor.
I ran the startup disk again and this time it said it could not fix the errors and told me to remove any new hardware with the following report.
problem signature 02 6.1.7600.16385
problem signature 03 Unknown
problem signature 04 781
problem signature 05 External media
problem signature 06 1
problem signature 07 Bad Driver
OS version 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID 1033
The interesting thing is that after the failed attempted repair, the Win 7 startup disk gives the option to reboot. Then the computer boots into Windows on the ssd just fine. I tried Aomei boot repair without success. I also tried from scratch using Macrium clone Drive without success. I still get the hanging boot. I tried a Windows upgrade install. I deleted all partitions and did a clean Win 7 Home install. Still the same problem. The machine still hangs on the flashing underscore for 15 minutes before booting.
The strange thing is that it was booting fine while the clean Win 7 installation was running. After the install was finished, it cannot boot properly by itself. It can only boot instantly when commanded by the Windows installation media.
So what is making it stall for so long? Is the bios searching for a missing driver? The ssd has the latest firmware. The Lenovo laptop has the latest bios.
My final conclusion is that this particular ssd will not work on this machine due to an incompatible bios, motherboard or perhaps a missing driver. Left by itself it will eventually boot after 15 minutes. So the mbr is not the problem. Something is causing the boot to hang. Is there anything I can do to get the ssd to boot? Your thoughts would be appreciated.
Kind regards
Chris
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