THE LAST FIVE WORDS DID THE TRICK. Get it to go to recovery console and rebuilt out of that, thanks again for jogging the noggin sjthinkpadersjthinkpader wrote:Old HDD in the Ultrabase/drive tray, new SSD in the HDD slot, cloning software in an USB CD drive. After cloning, if the SSD still doesn't boot, do a F11 recovery operation.
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Does anyone know if hdderase will erase a kingspec drive if the machine is booted from a cd with hdderase on it?nippo wrote:Just one question. Does anybody know how to send a Secure Erase ATA signal to these Kingspec SSDs, in order to reset the disk to factory settings and avoid time-related slowdowns? (see http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdo ... =3531&p=11 ).
Neither HDDERASE nor hparm seem to work, at least with my 1.8" PATA.
A program that could fill up all the clusters with zeroes (or ones) would probably also make it, although I am not sure...
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