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Kingston sent a replacement and I've installed it. Now's the tedious bit of reinstalling everything. The important stuff came back first - luckily the old drive worked well enough to do a backup. I've created a robocopy script to back it up on a regular basis.

backup completed, Kingston have confirmed the drive is faulty and doing a warranty replacement

trying to get a backup off a device that's running slowly is going to be a slow process! UPDATE: backup seems to be working. Occaisonal slow down but getting data off it ok. You can see it pausing on some files then it carries on. On the original system I kept seeing this in the event log...

I put it in a caddy on another machine, showed same issues. Just put it into another machine, again, running slowly and machine acting weird.

About 70% full, yes it is 2TB

Just over a year ago, I bought a new gaming laptop, an ASUS TUF and added an extra 2TByte (edited!) SSD (SNV2S). Just lately, I've had issues with applications crashing and misbehaving. I ran the system checks ASUS installed - but nothing showed up. Ran a memory test, again nothing. Tried doing...

Decided to scrap the Toshiba and bought a refurbished Dell laptop. Runs Linux Mint nicely.

I tried reseating the memory, it is still failing to boot as before. It seems it boots fine after being left for over 12 hours unused.

Hi folks, I'm Pete, I'm a software engineer of some years. I started as an electronics engineer but switched to writing software. I started in assembly language, now I work in C++/C# on games. I'm an Android phone user, plus a gamer on a high spec gaming laptop. I also use an older laptop with...

I have an aging Toshiba Satellite S50-B-12Q that frequently fails to boot. What happens on power up is the power button and keyboard lights up... and that's it. Nothing appears on screen, it appears dead. When it does boot, and it does so sometimes, the Toshiba logo appears then Linux Mint...