Travelmate P453-M-6888 will not boot from SSD
I am trying to upgrade my Travelmate P453-M-6888 to a SSD drive in order to make it faster. I have done an entire drive clone over to the SSD, which is recognized by BIOS, but whenever I try to boot the computer I get a message saying non bootable disk. I have not tried doing a reinstall and then restoring a backup onto the drive. This will be my next step. I wanted to find out if anyone has been able to get a disk clone to work.
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check if windows partition is marked as bootable and primary.
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OK, with a GPT disk, how would you recommend doing just that. Should I use a 3rd party tool or should I use diskpart?
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You can use diskpart.
by the way, SSD has some optimisation on windows installation and i suggest you to install the OS from scratch if possible.
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I am attempting to do a fresh install now with the SSD completely blank. We will see if Windows 8.1 will make the disk bootable now. If this works, then I can just restore a backup to get all my files and settings back.
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Fresh install did not make the disk active and bootable. Attempting to clean the drive and convert to MBR instead of GPT to try another fresh install.
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No matter what I do, I can not seem to get a fresh install to work on either of the 2 brand new 240 GB SSD drives that I have here.I can only guess that this laptop will not support an SSD drive at all.
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curious side:
if you boot from an Ubuntu live CD or Hiren's boot cd with mini XP or Linux parted magic, are you able to read/write to the SSD?
is the BIOS updated?
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BIOS is at 2.19 and I know the system can write to the SSD because the windows install only fails after the reboot and files get written to the drive before then
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Yes, seems BIOS limitation:
can you please post the SSD model and brand?
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The drive is a 240 GB Kingston ssdNOW v300 drive.
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can you try to update the SSD firmware, if the latest isn't already installed.
http://www.kingston.com/us/support/technical/downloads?product=SV300S3&filename=V300_525fw_Win
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The firmware you have listed is older than what is on my drives apparently. That firmware is 525 where my drives say 600 already
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ok, i give up...no more ideas, sorry.
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Thank you for trying. Anyone else have any ideas on what we can do?
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Appears that the Crucial M500 series drives are the only compatible drives for teh TravelMate P453-M series laptops. I have ordered one and am awaiting it's arrival. Will update this thread once I receive the drive and have attempted to get it operating.
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ok, good.
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Received the new drive today and as soon as I put it into the laptop, BIOS will not see it when it is installed as the primary drive.
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no words....
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I just don't get why this is happening.
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I now have Crucial's engineering department looking into this issue. Hopefully we find something out soon as to why this is happening.
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Hi tbingemanm
Did you hear back from Crucial or have you managed to resolve the issue?
I'm having the same issue with a Travelmate P453-M and using a crucial SSD BX100.
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