- Joined
- Aug 9, 2011
- Messages
- 131
- Motherboard
- GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3
- CPU
- i5-2500K
- Graphics
- GTX 960
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3 Mobo
Intel i2500k (stock)
16GB Corsair DDR3 (4x4)
1TB WDC Black (W10)
500GB Kingston HyperX SSD
EVGA GTX960SC
PCP&C Silencer Quad 750W PSU
Just got a new drive for OSX, the Kingston HyperX. Great speed increase, but doesn't seem reliable? Once upon a time, this system was 100% stable (except for iMessage... grr...) and booted from Clover every day without nary a niggle. One day that stopped. Not sure why. OSX update? Windows update? Both were around the same time, so I'm not sure... Either way, one day I started needing the USB Clover again, but I was too lazy to fix that. Now I'm in it deep...
SSD has 2 partitions, boot (clover) and OS (OS X 10.11.6). I have Windows10 on the HDD. Since DST I had to hard reboot the computer, and then the SSD doesn't show up in the Windows Explorer (I have Paragon HFS+ 11.0 for Windows). It doesn't show up for Diskmgmt or DiskDrill (though diskdrill sees an unformatted disk of unknown capacity, it *might* be the ssd? I don't want to format it if I can recover it, though.)
BIOS boot menu (F12) shows "MAC OS X" as a boot option, but iirc it used to say the fixed name of the drive. I may be wrong about this. I did not name it that, though - I named it something less generic so I would always recognize it.
When I boot with a USB bootloader (clover), the Windows drive (and any external USB drives) show up, but the SSD does not.
This has happened before, and I "switched" to W10, but then it "magically" started working again, and I switched back without thinking too much about it.
I have been googling for relevant info, and come across "disappearing ssd syndrome" sometimes, but nothing within the past 4 years. Seems it's all older info. I do not have another tower to test it with, and I do not have any Ubuntu DVDs around to check from another angle, but I can get one if that's a recommended way to diagnose.
Intel i2500k (stock)
16GB Corsair DDR3 (4x4)
1TB WDC Black (W10)
500GB Kingston HyperX SSD
EVGA GTX960SC
PCP&C Silencer Quad 750W PSU
Just got a new drive for OSX, the Kingston HyperX. Great speed increase, but doesn't seem reliable? Once upon a time, this system was 100% stable (except for iMessage... grr...) and booted from Clover every day without nary a niggle. One day that stopped. Not sure why. OSX update? Windows update? Both were around the same time, so I'm not sure... Either way, one day I started needing the USB Clover again, but I was too lazy to fix that. Now I'm in it deep...
SSD has 2 partitions, boot (clover) and OS (OS X 10.11.6). I have Windows10 on the HDD. Since DST I had to hard reboot the computer, and then the SSD doesn't show up in the Windows Explorer (I have Paragon HFS+ 11.0 for Windows). It doesn't show up for Diskmgmt or DiskDrill (though diskdrill sees an unformatted disk of unknown capacity, it *might* be the ssd? I don't want to format it if I can recover it, though.)
BIOS boot menu (F12) shows "MAC OS X" as a boot option, but iirc it used to say the fixed name of the drive. I may be wrong about this. I did not name it that, though - I named it something less generic so I would always recognize it.
When I boot with a USB bootloader (clover), the Windows drive (and any external USB drives) show up, but the SSD does not.
This has happened before, and I "switched" to W10, but then it "magically" started working again, and I switched back without thinking too much about it.
I have been googling for relevant info, and come across "disappearing ssd syndrome" sometimes, but nothing within the past 4 years. Seems it's all older info. I do not have another tower to test it with, and I do not have any Ubuntu DVDs around to check from another angle, but I can get one if that's a recommended way to diagnose.