I recently purchased a new Sony Vaio notebook that came with windows 8 preinstalled. It cam with a 1 tb HDD that was replaced with a 180 gb SSD and windows was reloaded using a recovery usb. I then wanted to mount the 1 tb HDD into dvd drive spot so I bought a caddy for it off of amazon. It was really easy to pull out the dvd drive and pop in the HDD in it's caddy and it fit perfectly. I turned on the notebook and it booted up and the drive was now recognized at D drive. I could see the windows os was still on there so I did the quick format option and then proceeded to transfer my music folder over from my external. I noticed through the whole process that the fan seemed to be running really high and I thought it was just because I was messing the new HDD but it never went away even when I was done with the transfer. The HDD seemed to always be spinning too even when I wasn't accessing files on it which didn't seem right if it's not being used. The fan is usually running but this was a full blast like I was playing a high end game. Windows gave me a blue error message about a kernel and rebooted. The fan immediately kicked in once it restarted so I turned it off and put the dvd drive back.
So my question is just if anybody has any experience doing something like this and has some suggestions? I want to try it again and figured it wouldn't hurt so ask for advice on here before I do. I figured I would try doing a different type of format as maybe there are still os traces on there that's messing things up. Thanks for reading.
ROORnNUGZ said:
I recently purchased a new Sony Vaio notebook that came with windows 8 preinstalled. It cam with a 1 tb HDD that was replaced with a 180 gb SSD and windows was reloaded using a recovery usb. I then wanted to mount the 1 tb HDD into dvd drive spot so I bought a caddy for it off of amazon. It was really easy to pull out the dvd drive and pop in the HDD in it's caddy and it fit perfectly. I turned on the notebook and it booted up and the drive was now recognized at D drive. I could see the windows os was still on there so I did the quick format option and then proceeded to transfer my music folder over from my external. I noticed through the whole process that the fan seemed to be running really high and I thought it was just because I was messing the new HDD but it never went away even when I was done with the transfer. The HDD seemed to always be spinning too even when I wasn't accessing files on it which didn't seem right if it's not being used. The fan is usually running but this was a full blast like I was playing a high end game. Windows gave me a blue error message about a kernel and rebooted. The fan immediately kicked in once it restarted so I turned it off and put the dvd drive back.
So my question is just if anybody has any experience doing something like this and has some suggestions? I want to try it again and figured it wouldn't hurt so ask for advice on here before I do. I figured I would try doing a different type of format as maybe there are still os traces on there that's messing things up. Thanks for reading.
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Perhaps the new caddy is blocking airflow? Also, the drive may be pulling more power than the DVD drive would and causing something to get overloaded.
I did this with a Lenovo Ideapad y550p and I never noticed any issues like this.
I'd try checking if your manufacturer has a public support forum you can post on, this seems like it may be a device specific issue.
HDDs generate a lot of heat (for more than most SSDs, incidentally) and your laptop's cooling may not have been designed for this source of heat.
You also bought a Sony device, which makes it difficult for me to even speculate what other problems might be occurring.
Thanks for the replies. I tried looking around the sony website but can't find much. I'll give it another go and check for some airflow and if that doesn't work then I'll just live with the ssd because I'm not giving that speed up.
You could try swapping the SSD and HDD. The SSD should generate less heat, which may help out.
So I reinstalled and did a full format which took over two hours but I noticed there were still hidden partitions on this drive so I got rid of those and expanded the drive all the way. Then I unchecked the box to allow random indexing on this drive and changed the power options shut off disk to 1 min per someone's instructions from a google link and it seems to working now. Figured I would post in case someone else ever runs into this issue.
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Hello i need some help
Im using Windows 7 64 bit.. and befor all was fine now from some time i see there have some problem and i cant understand why...
I have Blackstone and when i do Disc Drive mode for "Faster" Transfer is very very slow LOL.. at 1st i was thinking that my SD card is the problem but i use the same SD card from 2 years and never had problem like this befor.. also few times i FORMAT the SD card and etc but again the problem is the same from 1-2 weeks even the Active Sync is faster than Disc Drive yesterday when i do format my SD card i try to put back around 3 GB of files.. and was writen remaining time 15 Hrs WOW so i just leave the phone all night the files to be transfered.. also i try to copy this 3GB with Active Sync and was done for 9 hrs so faster than the Disc Drive witch is not normal.. now im starting ot think that there is some problems with the drivers?!?!
Also sometimes.. when i Disc Drive my device there is a pop up messege " THIS DEVICE CAN PERFORM FASTER" but when i click on the setting i cannot see anything so i think the Drivers have problem or the Settings or maybe both.
PLEASE can anyone with Windows 7 64bit can tell me what i need to do.. what settings you have?! where to change them and maybe do someone have a NEW USB drivers ?!
Will be very glad if someone can help me out because right now i need to wait a lot even if i want to transfer one Mp3 to my device!!!
I chek this.. also with Another Blackstone and is again the same witch mean Is not from the Device or the SD card is something related to the USB drivers/settings etc.
THank you in advance
If it's any comfort, I know how You feel I had a similar problem with 1GB USB stick and Vista. After hours of research, applying 4 (yes, four!) different hotfixes and bunch of registry edits and restarts, I was still in the same spot where I started - meaning transfer of some 700MB of data to the stick took more than 1,5 hours, which is nonsense. Anyway, as far as I am concerned, there is a problem with some of USB handling in Vista (and possibly maybe on W7 too). When it's one large file, it's quite OK, but when I have 5-6 thousand small files, it takes forever to copy. The point is, I think it's likely that the problem is on the PC side rather than on the PPC side, so maybe You can narrow it down some more. I personally gave up and went back to XP - no problems ever with such things. MS is really "improving" their OS
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If it's any comfort, I know how You feel I had a similar problem with 1GB USB stick and Vista. After hours of research, applying 4 (yes, four!) different hotfixes and bunch of registry edits and restarts, I was still in the same spot where I started - meaning transfer of some 700MB of data to the stick took more than 1,5 hours, which is nonsense. Anyway, as far as I am concerned, there is a problem with some of USB handling in Vista (and possibly maybe on W7 too). When it's one large file, it's quite OK, but when I have 5-6 thousand small files, it takes forever to copy. The point is, I think it's likely that the problem is on the PC side rather than on the PPC side, so maybe You can narrow it down some more. I personally gave up and went back to XP - no problems ever with such things. MS is really "improving" their OS
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Yes...
Sometimes work sometimes do not work WOW super WINDOWS 7 i installed all the drivers that i need always the same problem and my USB support USB2 this mean faster Disc Drive file transfer but now I need to wait a Hours for few Mp3`s
Today i copy to my storage card a new ROM image nbh witch is around 150mb one single file and it took me 50 minutes to transfer that file.. its just awesome.
Hello, I'm new to the Nexus 7 and I recently bought an OTG cable for connecting an external hard drive, particularly because I'm travelling in a few more days.
I've tried every HDD I have and none work, there is always a clicking sound for most of them and only my USB flash drive has worked thus far. The guy at the store said to change my HDDs to FAT 32, which didn't work but then I tried it on a 1 TB external HDD that I bought at the store, and after finding out that the HDD was too big for conversion to FAT 32 after like 7 hours, I tested it anyway and the HDD seems like it wants to work. The Nexus Media Importer pops up instantly like on the USB flash drive, however it takes an unusually long period of time to connect (waited for roughly 5 minutes before giving up) , and I have yet to be able to access the external hard drive. It seems like it is compatible with the Nexus 7 as there is no spinning and clicking sound so there seems to be enough power going through it, but for some odd reason I just can't access the files on the HDD.
Is it because I formatted it? Wiping out everything on the HDD?
Is there a power issue? Even though it seems like it doesn't?
Can someone please help? I might have possibly lost $140
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I use this app on my N7 and have varying luck with HDDs and it appears that the issue is sufficient power, which varies by device. I can access both FAT and NFS drives in cases where the drive ahs external power available so formatting is most likely not your issue.
Dave
sparksd said:
I use this app on my N7 and have varying luck with HDDs and it appears that the issue is sufficient power, which varies by device. I can access both FAT and NFS drives in cases where the drive ahs external power available so formatting is most likely not your issue.
Dave
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Yeah I think it's a power issue, even though it seems like it isn't. Funnily enough my dad's 1 TB external HDD seems to work so I'm swapping with his.
yeah some HDD's need external power. or simply cannot pull enough power from the nexy, ive heard some people have success with a powered usb hub
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trust-Port-Usb-2-0-Power/dp/B001UE6OC8/ref=tag_stp_s2_edpp_url
example--^
also what android version are you running? stickmount and nexus media imp' really only recently got updated to work on 4.2 so i you are running 4.2 expect some speed and stability issues for a little while.:good:
Guys.
I have a nexus 7 that i'm utilising in a car build.
It's running CM10.1 which I believe is based on 4.2.2, and Timurs custom Kernel.
I have a 175gb SSD dive, hooked up to a USB hub and OTG cable.
The SSD is recognised and mounts correctly on the Nexus.
I'm looking to speed up the mount process.
When I connect the SSD, the led activity light on the SSD will start to blink rapidly, any media on the drive is inaccessible until the drive activity has ceased.
This process takes around 30 seconds.
I've placed a number of .nomedia files inside the USBDISK folder amd SDCARD folder, but still mounting takes time.
Is there a way to speed up the mounting process.
Maybe moving the media folders inside a single folder, or some sort of file (like .nomedia) inside the folder structure to tell Android to not perform a file check.
Maybe a cache system.
The kernel is configured to have the drive in read only mode, so unless I manually add any files, then I have no need to scan for any file changes.
The drive could be in the car for months before I add any new media to it.
I guess no one else has experienced this, or I posted in the wrong forum, but i think i figured it out.
Just incase someone else has the same problem in the future, and in the vain hope that they stumble across this thread, I think it's only fair that I post my findings.
My SSD drive is formatted exFat for compatibilty between my PC, Tablet and S7 phone which is on Marshmallow.
I have 2 hard drives, I have a 2.5" SSD and a standard 2.5" Sata drive.
So something to experiment with.
Formatting the standard hard drive as NTFS and then copying a small number of my files on to it, i noticed that the mount time was instant, with hardly any drive activity.
All files are accessable.
It makes little sense, considering a standard mechanical drive is supposedly slower than SSD.
I then formatted it exFat, and copied roughly the same number of files, but now the mount time was about 5 seconds, with the drive light activity issue.
My SSD drive is taking 30-40 seconds to mount, which is annoying to say the least.
I reformatted my SSD as NTFS, copied my files back on to it, and the mount time is still almost instantaneous.
So it looks like whatever is causing the extended mount time is asscociated with exFat.
I've no idea why, so if anyone can explain, i'll be happy to learn.
So, long history "short", I was a happy owner of a 2015 pro satv with a 500GB samsung evo ssd inside of it, not rooted, no full android, just koodi made me a happy camper altho the ssd read/write speeds in the satv did always left an undesired flavor to me.
Then last december while I was doing a professional course, my laptop ssd decided to die in the middle of the exams, so, as I was not using the satv that much and I did not have anything stored in it that I didnt want to lose (I have all my media on a nas), I just opened it up and took the ssd, formatted it in my desktop computer and put it on my laptop because I just needed it for the course as the laptop had no other hdd.
I did not think I would have a problem by doing so because I had the backups of the firstpart.bin and lastpart.bin from back when I decided to swap the original sshdd for the ssd.
A few days ago I end up the course and decide to get my satv back up and running again, but this time I will not throw my money by putting a ssd into it again, so I buy a sshdd and follow the steps to restore my backups into it (hex editing and so on)... no video. Ok, I will leave it powered 20 minutes then restart, but again no video. Try fastboot by using the OTG cable to the PC. Can not enter fastboot no matter how many times I try (it actually power offs REAL QUICK) and all I get in the computer is "apx device" (google search is all I needed to start to get frightened by this point).
So I take the hdd out again and see If I did everything correctly (I used windows dd), everything looks good in the hex part, but this time I will try writing it from linux. I use ubuntu this time to write it and the tool from the forum member to generate lastpart.bin (I even compare afterwards to my lastpart.bin and both are identical, so it was not the problem). but.... no video again and no fastboot... only apx.
To this point, and being sure my lastpart.bin its not the problem, I have tried with my firstpart.bin (3.29GB), the one from the torrent in this site (3,29GB), the other one (7,39GB), and even with all of them with the SATV_rescue files that hallydamaster uploaded here applied over them.
Same result with everyone, no video, can not enter fastboot, no adb device, no device in device manager except for apx...
The final culprit of all of this load of shet was that I broke the sata cord/flex by trying to force it deeper into the plug. I learnt that mistake of not letting too many work hours make a problem become a new one, but I guess I became too frustrated with it and finally made it worse. So now I think the sata flex was in bad condition and the initial problem for the console to not show image and not boot into fastboot. I might buy a compatible flex sata cable to try and rescue it from the deads, anyone had any experience with these? I have seem people with 16GB version have successfully soldered these compatible sata flex cables to their motherboards (no need to solder here as to I have the pro version) so I guess its totally compatible) so there should be no trouble I think.
any help would be appreciated
I'm in the same boat
Excuse me guys ...did you find to buy the sata cable?
Thanks in advance
I purchased my SHIELD 500GB waay back when it came out. Unfortunately, just recently I went to use it, no picture. Reboot, no image, and just a buzzing sound from the case almost like a beep... I open the case, listen to the hard drive, and it buzzes like its trying to spin up but it won't spin up.
Tried taking it out and connecting it to my PC to recover the Widevine keys so I can use a public image on a new SSD, no luck, PC won't recognize the drive.
Does anyone know if its possible to get a working SHIELD back (starting from a new blank SSD, without the original Widevine key)? I doubt they'll RMA the unit since it is so old, and I don't have any receipt for it anymore.
I have the same exact model and the same problem. Just recently bricked out of nowhere! I get that faint beeping sound from inside the unit and it won't go past the boot logo. Tried everything from holding down the power button and releasing and also hooked up to both mac and pc but neither will recognize the shield. So frustrating.
If you dont end up figuring it out, I'll buy it off you. Ill probably just use it as a dedicated plex server.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/development/nvidia-shield-tv-ssd-t3402580
There's a torrent with all the files you need to reimage a new SSD.
An update to close my thread:
I was able to use the torrent with the files to flash the new SSD, but without my Widevine key (so no Netflix on the SHIELD). The booting process after flashing and updating was very weird, and the SHIELD now has a habit of constantly turning on itself and the TV. But, it worked.
As a preventative measure I mirrored my other 500GB SHIELD's drive to a 500GB SATA disk, and backed up the Widevine key so I can recover from a drive failure on that board at least.
Matt