Re: [H] SSD drive question smart update

2014-02-15 Thread FORC5
I guess the smart error I was getting was the program used, dl'ed ssdlife pro. Shows no problems <:-| At 07:12 PM 2/15/2014, FORC5 Poked the stick with: advice taken, new one on order. have two full clone backups and one full data backup. I'm not paranoid :-) fp At 06:56 PM 2/15/2014, Greg Seva

Re: [H] SSD drive question (TIM)

2014-02-15 Thread FORC5
advice taken, new one on order. have two full clone backups and one full data backup. I'm not paranoid :-) fp At 06:56 PM 2/15/2014, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: No, failed SMART status is never normal. Failing drives don't always show a bad SMART status, but drives with a bad SMART status

Re: [H] SSD drive question (TIM)

2014-02-15 Thread Greg Sevart
No, failed SMART status is never normal. Failing drives don't always show a bad SMART status, but drives with a bad SMART status always warrants taking corrective action. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On

Re: [H] SSD drive question (TIM)

2014-02-15 Thread FORC5
no problem running chkdsk /f at all. does not fix anything. I do not know if chkdsk even works on ssd's fp At 03:42 PM 2/15/2014, Jamie Furtner Poked the stick with: Can you boot into a recovery command prompt from a Windows 7+ installation CD and check the drive from there? This could be due to

Re: [H] SSD drive question (TIM)

2014-02-15 Thread FORC5
it is and it still does, the other M500 does too but the C300's show clear. Figure just the nature of the beast. at this point At 05:19 PM 2/15/2014, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: Is this the Crucial SSD that you posted about showing a bad SMART status in December? And yes, it absolutely c

Re: [H] SSD drive question (TIM)

2014-02-15 Thread FORC5
that is the plan. Not sure this is the cause but I recently removed the reserved partition, no particular reason just to play. System booted and ran fine without but that is when the error emerged. For some reason at that point none of my backup sw worked, would not clone. Would not read from s

Re: [H] SSD drive question (TIM)

2014-02-15 Thread Greg Sevart
Is this the Crucial SSD that you posted about showing a bad SMART status in December? And yes, it absolutely could be the cause. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Saturday, February

Re: [H] So, how much space does W7-64 need?

2014-02-15 Thread Jamie Furtner
Windows 7-x64 will only upgrade from Windows XP x64 Edition or Vista-x64. There is no direct upgrade path from 32-bit to 64-bit Windows, the only method is to do a custom install and reinstall all your drivers and software. I suggest running the upgrade advisor from the install disk or http://windo

Re: [H] SSD drive question (TIM)

2014-02-15 Thread Jamie Furtner
Can you boot into a recovery command prompt from a Windows 7+ installation CD and check the drive from there? This could be due to Windows running and therefore chkdsk not being able to lock the drive. Jamie On 2014-02-15 3:17 PM, Tim Lider wrote: > Hello, > > It could be there are dead sectors o

Re: [H] So, how much space does W7-64 need?

2014-02-15 Thread Tim Lider
Duncan, I run Windows 7 and Windows 8 on 300GB HD's and put the data on larger HD's in the system. Right now I'm experimenting a Windows 7 install on a 250GB SSD. So fat the system has not even taken up 1/4th the space of the HD. Regards, Tim Lider > -Original Message- > From: hardw

Re: [H] SSD drive question (TIM)

2014-02-15 Thread Tim Lider
Hello, It could be there are dead sectors or there is something wrong with the controller IC on the SSD itself. I suggest imaging the SSD over to the new SSD. Tim Lider > -Original Message- > From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@lists.hardwaregroup

[H] SSD drive question (TIM)

2014-02-15 Thread FORC5
Have 4 ssd's in my system all check OK except my boot drive when I run chkdsk I get a volume bitmap is incorrect error. chkdsk /f does not fix it. I have a new drive on order to replace it but was wondering about this. System boots fine. other drives are backup and data. Occasionally get a syst

[H] So, how much space does W7-64 need?

2014-02-15 Thread DSinc
Questionsfrom my Brother: Q1: Can I just load W7-64 'over' XP? (like an 'upgrade') Q2: How much physical space does W7-64 take on a HDpost install? He is concerned because he has many programs loaded/running on the c: (?root?) partition, AND, he does not wish to catalog and move them elsewhere