Perform a secure erase of the Intel 330 120GB SSD using GParted or similar bootable CD, and update the firmware for it as well (Intel may provide a bootable CD to do this, or it may be a utility to run once Windows is installed). It takes several restarts to get into windowsĪgreed. **I should add that, on my laptop, it also has trouble booting up, it'll freeze at "starting windows", or I'll get an error saying it can't boot. *update : The SSD worked fine when I tried it in another laptop. (Thinking about it now, I haven't tried linux yet - I don't really want to use linux on my laptop though)
I bought 2 of these Intel 330 120GB SSDs, originally for my PC but I wanted to see if it would be worth installing one in my laptop for the performance boost. The SSD doesn't present this problem when using it with USB(USB 2 so I can't really gauge it properly). read and write speeds were good considering it's a laptop with SATA2, but the 4K was horrible, it couldn't even complete - the program would freeze trying it, showing numbers near 2-4MB/s. However, it had the same problem of freezing for frustrating amounts of time.
Thinking it might be chipset drivers or something, which I didn't have with me, I tried cloning my boot partition again and eventually succeeded. THE FAQ WIKI THE FAQ WIKI LIVE CHAT LIVE CHAT POST A QUESTIONĪfter having trouble cloning my boot partition(Windows 7) to the SSD, I tried a fresh installation of Windows 7 onto the SSD, but I had the problem of the system freezing(except for the cursor) for 30 seconds to 3 minutes when I did mundane things like browse the net. When you no longer need help edit your post to one of these: (/resolved) If you are testing suggestions edit your post from above to one of these: (/testing) Please keep the conspiracy and stuff you are trying to sell out.įor live assistance, try our always-open chatroom.Īdd a line at the bottom of your post and one of these: (/unresolved) We are not going to let this fall under like the usenet group. Self or Karma gaining submissions both ok. Be as specific as possible.Ģ4hoursupport.helpdesk is your one stop shop for all questions. When submitting, please include your system specs, such as windows/linux/mac version/build, model numbers, etc.