Recent content by SuperSoph_WD

Welcome to the community, @Sander_5! I'd second @hang-the-9's advice and get in touch with the manufacturer's customer support! If you have been using third-party tools to set the password on the external drive, you should make sure that these laptops have that utility installed. You could also...

Happy New Years, @BaltazarIX! Since you have a new SSD to boot from, I'd recommend you start from scratch and make sure you keep the WD HDD unplugged from the laptop while clean installing Windows onto the solid-state drive. This will avoid the so-called OS confusion. After you have Windows 10...

Happy New Year, @KingMalik98! In addition to what @velocityg4 mentioned, I'd strongly recommend you back up all your data from the external drive on the Macbook, since you are able to access it from there. After making a duplicate of the files stored on the external HDD, you would be safe to...

Hey there & Happy New Year, @b0thered! I'd strongly recommend you check if the SSD appears in the connected SATA devices in the BIOS interface, if the HDD is recognized there but it's not listed in the Windows Installation Wizard, I'd suggest you try to boot into the Advanced Windows 10 options...

Welcome to the community & Happy New Year, @nafis_1! I'd strongly recommend you try to connect the external HDD using a different USB cable and also try plugging it to another USB port on your laptop. I'd also suggest you go to Device Manager and make sure all your drivers are working properly...

Hey there, @Ignatious! I'd strongly recommend you contact the laptop manufacturer's official customer support if you had the OS pre-installed on it. Here's a thread you might find helpful regarding re-installing an OEM Windows version. If the OS was pre-installed on your laptop, it means that...

Welcome to Tom's Hardware, @sdloki76! I'd recommend you try to resolve the issue by resetting BIOS through the BIOS interface settings. This will get everything back to its factory defaults, so you will need to re-configure all the manual changes in BIOS again afterwards. Have you tried using...

Hey there again, @sysrq54! These temps during the stress test definitely sound concerning! :( In fact the issue could be coming from some sort of defect in the SSD itself. If there's no airflow problem, then it's most probably some corruption in the SSD itself. Since it has no warranty, replace...

Hey there, @MrMbss1! I'm sorry to hear about your formatting issues with the WD Blue HDD! :( I'd recommend you download the WD Drive Utilities for Mac and see if the HDD will get properly recognized in that tool. It will allow you erase and re-format the drive through your Macbook and see if...

Hey there again, @sysrq54! As far as temperature goes, I suspect the issue could be coming from somewhere else in your laptop and not the SSD itself. I'd advise to check why it's generating that heat in the first place before you upgrade to mSATA. As for the performance, there's not that much...

Hello again, @sysrq54! According to these SMART results, it looks like your SSD is running a little hotter than it should. The operating temperature should be below 50C in order to work properly. I'd strongly recommend you backup any important data from the SSD somewhere off-site, just to be on...

Hey there, @sysrq54! In addition to what @webworkings mentioned, I'd also suggest you run an SSD-specific diagnostic tool and check what the SMART results will show about the SSD's health. Since you have an SSD and an HDD in your laptop, then you could also try swapping their places and see how...

Hey there, @Tylor Schuessele! Unfortunately, I'm afraid that this setup is not really what you are looking for. If you want to backup your old photos and videos, I'd advise you have multiple duplicates of these media files stored in different locations on-site as well as off-site. RAID 1 is not...

Hey, @jakarate11! I'd totally agree with @webworkings and advise you to get in touch with the laptop manufacturer's or reseller's official customer support. They should be able to assist you with the RMA procedure and replace the failed hardware component for you. However, I'd strongly...

Hey there, @jakarate11! I'd advise you to use another computer to recreate the bootable USB flash drive/DVD of the Windows 7 version you had previously installed on the laptop. If the OS came pre-installed with the laptop, I'd strongly recommend you get in touch with the manufacturer's customer...