MSata Question

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puma · #1 Post by **puma** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:23 pm

Hey guys, I am looking to get an msata card for my t520 and install the os on it. When I install the card.. will it appear as any other HD would in the setup or is there something i need to load?

Thank you

#2 Post by **ZaZ** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:39 pm

It looks like another drive.

puma · #3 Post by **puma** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:44 pm

ZaZ wrote:It looks like another drive.

easy enough, thanks!

puma · #4 Post by **puma** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:31 pm

Ever since installing msata and dropping the OS on it I get random blue screens. Sucks! Wiping it installing OS on my ssd and using msata for storage. Sucks.

#5 Post by **ZaZ** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:22 pm

Which machine do you have and how did you install the OS?

puma · #6 Post by **puma** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:25 pm

Thinkpad t520 windows 7 64 bit.
When I reinstalled the win 7 on the main ssd.. i noticed that the msata was going in and out from being recognized. The last thing I did was open the machine up and remove the black plastic cover from the card which I left in. It was like a place holder or somrething. Possible the card over heated or something?

puma · #7 Post by **puma** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:30 pm

Did a clean install btw off a disk. It finished just fine and was up and running. then the blue screens started.

#8 Post by **ZaZ** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:25 pm

Do you have the i7 and does it say anything in Event Viewer?

puma · #9 Post by **puma** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:30 pm

Yes i7 and nothing specific in event viewer. Just said critical error possibly caused by power failure etc

#10 Post by **ZaZ** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:41 pm

Do you have the latest BIOS/updates?

puma · #11 Post by **puma** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:43 pm

Yes. I just ended up doing a clean install over again. It was going well for a while, and then suddenly the drive was no longer recognized. Windows froze and when i open Computer C: is missing. Yup. Super unstable, so I am rebuilding the OS on the ssd 2.5 drive. I give up.

pmenadue · #12 Post by **pmenadue** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 6:13 pm

I encountered similar problems with my mSata T50 on a T420S.

Occasionally it would BSOD with a POWER STATE error - I think the msata goes missing.

Might be a power management thing.

My plan is probably to go back to just using the SATA drive.

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