My shield with a ssd that has been working for years suddenly wont boot. I pulled the ssd drive and i cant access it. I bought a new 500gb ssd but since I cant clone it cause the first drive is dead. Is there an OS image and any other files that might be needed to set up the new ssd? I have a pc which i used to clone the original drive to the ssd years ago. Wish i could find that original hd to just clone again. But, no joy. Any help with instruction would be helpful. Thanks
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I've been having an absolutely horrendous time installing Window 8 onto an SSD i bought. Let me give you a rundown of what's going on.
I bought a 120gb SSD off of my friend for a new laptop I was getting. My intentions were to replace the 1TB HDD in this laptop with the SSD and use the HDD as an external, so I can have massive speed increases in everyday computing activity. Originally, I thought the laptop had 2 hard drive bays, making it simple to install Windows onto it. However, due to my negligence to pay attention, it turns out that this laptop only has 1 hard drive bay. So next, I say, "oh simple, I'll just get an external HDD enclosure and install windows that way." Nope, cockblocked by Microsoft on this one; I figure out the hard way that one cannot install Windows onto a device via usb. I then researched some more and found "Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool". I tried installing Windows onto a flash drive, but then accidentally formatted my camera's 16gb memory card losing hundreds of pictures. In vain, I should add, since it didn't even work in the end. Currently, I am stuck on how to install windows 8 onto my external SSD to later swap with the internal HDD. Hopefully this paragraph made sense lol. Any help here is greatly appreciated.
You've got the enclosure you need for the 1TB drive, right? What's stopping you from swapping the drives now, and installing the OS on the SSD when it's mounted internally? Alternatively, create a new partition on the current drive that is the same size or smaller as the SSD, and then install Win8 there. You can then copy that partition (the whole thing, using something like dd on linux) to the SSD, although getting the bootloader to come along for the ride would be tricky.
Also, with all due respect, if you managed to lose hundreds of pictures that weren't yet copied off the camera card while attempting (and failing) to install Win8 on a flashdrive, this might be a "don't try this at home" moment. I'm sorry for your loss, and I realize it was probably a very simple accident - confusion of which drive you were targeting, perhaps - but messing around with disk partitioning and advanced installation techniques without somebody who knows what they're doing guiding you is a dangerous idea.
Windows 2 Go locks down a number of system features, which limit its usefulness as a day-to-day OS. There's some configuration in the registry that controls this, so you might be able to use the W2G installation and then "fix" it, but you may want to do some research into W2G before attempting this.
I guess one could call me a noob when it comes to Windows lol... my expertise is Android
So I can swap the ssd and hdd while the computer is running? Wouldn't that cause all sorts of errors? Because when I tried swapping them, I couldn't get windows to boot from the hdd (which was in the external enclosure)
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Take the HDD out. Put SSD in. Put windows install disk in (not upgrade disk, most disks sold are upgrade only, you need install). Boot from instrall disk, follow instructions.
The hard disk replacement can only be dome when powered off. SATA devices do not support hit swapping and may even be damaged by it.
We ignore the HDD completely. Once win8 is on the SSD then you can put the HDD in the USB enclosure, plug it into your laptop now running win 8 and retrieve your files.
Copying wijndiws between different hard disks rarely works in my experience.
Oh, for the SD thing. Partitioning SD cards is not recommended, not all laptops can boot from SD either so it may have been completely futile.
If you don't have an install disk (only upgrade), you can copy the contents of your current Windows OS volume onto the SSD and then do the swap, which should cause the installer to think you already have Windows installed (if perhaps in a corrupted form). If you can do a full partition clone, then it needn't even be a corrupted copy; you could simply clone Windows onto the SSD (it may demand to be reactivated if you do this; ignore that) and then use an upgrade install.
Contrary to the name, upgrade installs do not need to be in-place upgrades; you can in fact wipe the entire SSD (and I recommend you do so) using the advanced install options once the installer has verified that these is (or was) a Windows install there.
I've done it on my HP DV6, the process was with a samsung ssd to clone the hard drive on the ssd with the program furnished by samsung. I expect there are other programs doing the same. I used a second external HD to take the files that didn't enter the SSD (256 GB).
Then I swap the disks (SSD internal) and I replace the DVD reader by the old HD repartition and format it (Now I use an external DVD Writer.
Then I upraded with win 8.
Take a bit of time but works
I hope it helps
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My nvidia shield TV pro 500gb hard drive got completely formatted as in its completely blank and new. I need help setting up a new hard drive with all the recommended files.
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My nvidia shield TV pro 500gb hard drive got completely formatted as in its completely blank and new. I need help setting up a new hard drive with all the recommended files.
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Do you at least have a bootloader? Are you able to get it in fastboot mode? If so, you can flash the stock images. Otherwise, read through this forum https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/development/nvidia-shield-tv-ssd-t3402580
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Bit of a coincidence, but after the 7.02 update, my shield died. After investigation I found that the Hdd had fried. I have bought from Amazon an exact replica of the 500gb hdd that was installed in the shield.
My problem now is trying to get any firmware onto the brand new HDD. When plugged into the PC (win 10) all i get in device manager, is an unrecognized APX device, with the yellow warning triangle. I have downloaded and tried to update the drivers to this device from the Nvidia developers site, these are not recognized. I have adb and fastboot installed, this also does not recognize the device. obviously, i cannot
get the device into fastboot via the power button, due to the hdd being blank, and unable to get any bootloader or image transferred onto the HDD. I have searched the internet for fixes, but as yet no avail. So to summarize, Brand new HDD of original specs in the 500GB 2015 shield, not recognized by windows, and cannot get adb fastboot to see it, or put the shield itself in fastboot mode. Any ideas much appreciated.
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Hi,
Bit of a coincidence, but after the 7.02 update, my shield died. After investigation I found that the Hdd had fried. I have bought from Amazon an exact replica of the 500gb hdd that was installed in the shield.
My problem now is trying to get any firmware onto the brand new HDD. When plugged into the PC (win 10) all i get in device manager, is an unrecognized APX device, with the yellow warning triangle. I have downloaded and tried to update the drivers to this device from the Nvidia developers site, these are not recognized. I have adb and fastboot installed, this also does not recognize the device. obviously, i cannot
get the device into fastboot via the power button, due to the hdd being blank, and unable to get any bootloader or image transferred onto the HDD. I have searched the internet for fixes, but as yet no avail. So to summarize, Brand new HDD of original specs in the 500GB 2015 shield, not recognized by windows, and cannot get adb fastboot to see it, or put the shield itself in fastboot mode. Any ideas much appreciated.
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Sorry to hear your HD died, mine died last month. First you can not see anything on the HD, because it has special encryption. Just using a firmware will not work. You need to have a new SSHD drive, or as i did replace with 500 gig SSD. Now here is the problem you need to make a bit by bit image of the drive, if it is fried, you will not be able to do it. I was lucky, my son has the same drive so i was able to make my image, There are many steps to getting a new drive up and running. First you need to find a Friend or someone who would let you use there Shield Tv Pro, you need to ope the Shield tv and take the HD out of the borrowed one, then you need a USB SATA connector for the HD from the Borrowed HD and you need to have 500 gig of space on a PC or Laptop HD to store the Image to, it takes about 4 hours to make image, then you hook up the New HD Drive to the SATA Connection and then copy the image From PC to the new drive, that takes about 3 hours, then carefully put drives back in there Shield Tv boxes. there is a small image software to do the image making, i don't remember the name of it. so as you see it is a long process
Hello.
i have a problem with nvidia sheld 500gb
I lost all data on the SSHD. Because I connected it to
computer and formatted. The device starts but you cannot enter fastboot mode.
How to upload a new system and fastboot?
Congratulations, you just made yourself your very own brick.
Why would you ever take out the internal drive and format it in your pc???
Only thing I can think of is looking at a thread like this https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/general/guide-migrate-to-ssd-hdd-size-satv-pro-t3440195 and see if someone has dumped the data from their sshd and then follow the steps, as if you were to install a new harddrive.
Hello, I know this is an old topic but I need help.
My mothers HDD died so she/we cannot copy the drive image and put it onto a SSD. What I am looking for is a way to restore this device. I have a Samsung 870 Evo 500GB SSD.
Apparently image files for the device is real hard to come by, because that would be the a easy way to solve this issue. It seems that I will have to do this from scratch so I need help solving this problem.
Please send me and guides and videos!!
I would really appreciate it!