Use a kingston ssd with tx1000

I am trying to install a Kingston SSDNow 100 V+ drive into my TX1000 tablet. It fits in the sata connector but however the BIOS does not see it. Is there a BIOS version that will see this SSD? The OS currently installed is Ubuntu 11.04.

Well, thank you for your reply.... I do know how to do the actual job, it's just, I have seen articles say that Apple made Yosemite, so that non Apple Hardware, such as the SSD, might not be compatible. I know Samsung is compatible, but what I mean't was, is TRIM actually not enable when I put my new SSD in? Or is that not true, and TRIM works no matter what? I have watched the video tutorials at OWC already, and they're very helpful. Also, as you said, to enable TRIM, it'll ask to suspend Apple's security, which I don't want to do. That's why I asked, for an alternative I don't know about.... You are correct, about my wording, though. I made a mistake by saying there are blocks, so you can't use third party drives. I mean't, I heard they block TRIM, but don't block the usability of the drive. Thanks again.

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Unable to use Intel 530 SSD with M5400

Hello!
I finally decided to write over here, after reading and viewing a lot of forums lately on this subject.
Context:
I have an Lenovo M5400 (but don't think this is definitory to the problem, as I've seen that the same simptoms seem to exist to other lenovo models as well) with the SSHD drive. I bought an Intel 530 SSD (don't think the brand mathers either) and wanted to replace the SSHD with it.
Upon replacing the original drive with the SSD, in order to make a clean windows install, the Windows 8 installer is unable to correctly detect my drive.
The drive is visible in the BIOS (at times?!) and seems to interfere somehow with the booting process, as sometimes, the boot stucks with a blank screen and the green light of the drive is on permanently. (this doesn't happen all the time).
What I tried:
1) At first, I had the drive unitialized: no GPT or MBR, no partitions on it. I tried to install it as such, but failed. It was not visible to the Windows installer, only in BIOS, in the boot order, I could see it. This was done in BIOS legacy mode.
2) I tried loading drivers in the Windows installer, via the "Load driver" option, when you get the message "W couldn't find any drives" or something like that. That was unsuccessful with the following: a) lenovo ahci drivers, from the online driver store, b) my previous windows drivers, which I took on a USB stick, c) some drivers from intel site.
3) At this point, the Intel firmware update bootable tool was not seeing my drive either.
4) I then initialized my drive by connecting it via a SATA-to-USB cable to my computer and repeated step 2), with no success still. I initialized it as MBR but I doubt that initializing it as GPT would have made a diffrence. I tried both with creating a primary and active partition and with leaving the drive initialized with all the space unallocated. No success.
5) I tried to update lenovo BIOS, because I suspect it's the cause of the problem, but was unable to do so. Downloaded the bios utility but it gives me an error "Bios folder ... ". With the bootable bios cd, it doesn't work: it doesn't boot. Has anyone managed to flash a newer bios? There is one posted on 09/30/2013 on the site, and my current one is 09/26/2013, as shown in BIOS.
6) I then fiddled with various BIOS modes: uefi, legacy, both with priority, but with no success.
At one point, I managed to see the drive in the windows installer, it was in UEFI mode only, with WIn 8 Optimized defaults ( I think) but I feared that it was just a single happening and didn't do anything, instead tried to see which settings worked in order to be able to reproduce this. I completly lost my chance, as after that, I didn't see the drive again in the windows installer. When it worked, I didn't have to load any driver. It saw it as MBR and prompted to format is as GPT, in order to use with UEFI booting.
The things I noticed:
On some occasions, in the bios boot order menu, the drive is identified as an Intel ssd, and on others just as an generic ATA HDD. I think there is a bad link between those two. When I reboot, restart, on some occasions I see it as the Intel drive and on others as the generic one. I think that in the case of generic drive, the windows installer has no chance on recognizing it.
When it is seen in the bios though, I get all sort of problems when trying to boot a CD or USB, as it seems to ignore them and get stuck in the boot process. I think that in this situations it correctly detects the SSD, if I were to look in the BIOS. But when I try to boot the CD or the USB in these situations, it just stucks with the green drive light permanently on, and with the CPU working on something ( I hear the fans starting) and the boot stops here indefinetly. I have to restart, and then, depending on the case, I get the same results, or I can boot the CD but don't find the drive.
I don't know by what chance I managed to "capture" it once in the windows installer but think this should be the common case.
After all these, what I suspect is that the Lenovo BIOS is broken somehow. It messes up with the boot order, because although I have priority for the DVD, the boot gets stuck on trying to do something with the SSD, as described above.
I am in the situation of returning the SSD back to the shop, as it is unusable with the current Lenovo m5400 motherboard/bios or whatever other hardware interferes with making it properly work ( ahci controller?).
I am very upset by this, and have seen that on these very boards, there are other posts as well, not on this model, but on other lenovo models, with the same scenarios and simptopms as mine, which didn't get any solution.
So, is there an answer to my problem? To update the BIOS? How to make the BIOS to not mess up with the boot order and get stuck? I tried all the possible combinations with no success and it's really frustrating.
Another update:
A lot of people seem to be having problem with the particular Intel 530 SSD. So this issue may not be related only to the motherboard/bios. I will post links to the corresponding threads from the intel boards:
https://communities.intel.com/thread/49389?start=15&tstart=0
https://communities.intel.com/thread/52959
https://communities.intel.com/thread/51111
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The disk isn't detected as an Intel SSD with the SATA-to-USB cable, instead being masked by it. Maybe this is another problem?

Hello! I have the same problem as you.
I tried to connect OCZ Vertex 2 60GBSSD but I failed. It has the same conntroller SandForce but the older generation.
Maybe that's the problem?
I was unable to install it on Windows 8.1, when I switched to the BIOS to ACHI mode Capability mode. But later he again loaded with it, then the BIOS will not see it to be.
I think the problem in the BIOS! I have 2.03 the latest.

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fromx001 I believe you can use a SSD as internal drive, of course make sure to buy an ide/ata. There are all sorts of sizes up to 480 GB also in the ide/ata standard. You should however research carefully your purchase, as the performances of your SSD are going to have to rely on firmware "garbage collection", as the older operating systems haven't been written with SSD in mind.
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I own a MacBook Pro Mid 2009 and I'm running OSX Mavericks with Windows 8.1 Pro Bootcamp. I wanted to upgrade to an SSD drive and after reading the great reviews on Amazon, I purchased a Kingston 240GB SSD 2.5" V300 SATA 3.
Many of the buyers had installed the SSD drive on Macbook Pro, including "mid 2009' models without any real problems but I've just spent the best part of 3 hours trying to install the drive but so far, it has not worked and the problem seems to be that, although the Acronis True Image software that comes with the drive to 'clone' the source drive and install it onto the destination drive (new SSD drive), I get a message which states, "WARNING: After migration, the O/S will not be able to boot from the destination disk in the BIOS - If you want to boot from the destination disk after migration, you need to enable UEFI booting in your system and then restart".
During one of my first attempts to install the SSD drive, I removed the original HDD from the MBP and installed it in the supplied 2.5" caddy and and connected it to the MBP via the USB cable supplied then installed the new Kingston SSD SATA3 drive in the MBP, powered up and then rebooted. The Acronis bootable software launched and after choosing 'clone disk', cose source and destination drives, I got a message saying: "The selected disk will be migrated as is (disks layout will remain GPT)". "After operation completion, operating systems will not boot from the destination disk in the BIOS".
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Hi
Thanks for your reply.
Yes the Acronis software is Windows but I read through a lot of reviews on the Kingston SSD SATA 3 drives Amazon and from what I can gather, after removing the original drives and installing that in the 2.5" caddy and then installing the new SD drive in the Macbook, those buyers then used the software to boot from and clone the source drive to the new drive.
I'm not sure if I mentioned it in my first post, but I did use the Disk Utility in Mac OSX and erased, formatted and partitioned the drive and then pushed CMD + R at start up but I was not able to install a copy of the OS because the drive was not recognised.
I think I also used the disk utility in Windows and then tried again in OSX but no luck. I'm no expert but as stated above, the issue seems to be that the SSD drive is not booable in the BIOS (or Mac equivalent).
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T60 and Kingston SSD not working

Hi guys, I have small project at wok. We are upgrading our T60 hard drives with Kingston SSDs and I have to find a way of cloning and make them work together. Just so you know the T60 HDs are encrypted if that's goanna make any difference.
So far I have tried couple of cloning programs ( Clonzilla and the Kingston cloning software that came with the SSD) and couple of ways to clone. I followed all the steps from http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T61-and-prior-T-series-ThinkPad/Intel-X25-M-Solid-State-Drive-SSD-won-t-... and still no success. When I plugged in the SSD in to the lap top and start it I`m getting a message "Hit any key to continue..." and from there I can not do anything. This message comes up on the screen where you can see in the left top corner " [F2] to cancel autologon".
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Solved!
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Firstly, I have to question the logic in what your doing. You say these are "work" computers, and since you have the harddrives encrypted, I assume they contain valuable data.
Did you know that SSD drives fail about 2-3 times as often as mechnical drives, and these failures usually leave no way to slavage data. I can't imagine a reason to use them on a business computer. Currently the only advantage to an SSD is speed, so if speed is of foremost importance, and data security isn't important (such as in a gaming PC), then I'd say go with SSD, but if you want something reliable, then SSD technology just isn't there yet. Also note that most mechnical harddrive fialure with be possible to slavage data from, where an SSD failure would usually be impossible (think of trying to repair a lightbulb compared to repairing a candle).
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I'd definitely disable the encryption and try it again, also make sure you have the new ssd drive in the main drive pay when you clone the drive. Put the old drive in an ultrabay adapter or usb enclosure.
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I dont think that the issue could be related to the notebook.
Why should notebook break the SSD drives and how?
I mean the SSD drive is connected to the SATA controller and thats it!
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I would like to ask to following thing:
I installed the 96gb kingston SSD & the 1tb WD Scorpion Blue in my macbook pro (Mid-2008 model).
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When I try to play a file in itunes (.m4a audio file for example) the file gets loaded but suddenly stops playing. Same when I move large amounts of data to the hard drive it suddenly stops, the beachball pops up wait 10/15seconds and then continues.
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Greetings,
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Hi, but that didnt solve your problem...
I have a little quest for you, to near the fences around the wild mice ...
Did you use the factory installed XP ?
in that case...yes..
in case of no jump to END
Did other usb devices recognized , like flashdrive/external hdd/keyboard ?
have you try it on both ports ?
if not ...
have you activate /installed Quickstart ?,
if yes .
. then plug in the usb mouse and
start QS for testing...external mice/keyboard should be recognized...
if the answer is yes...
i think its better to set the XP system to fresh factory recover ,
if you answer all upper quest with no your S10e mainboard could be broken , so you have to call for service..
END
Did you install the system self... ?
yes
Did you have complete XP with SP3 install ?
yes
Did you have shrink windows with nlite ?
yes
Did you install all drivers chipset and so on ..
Did you have yellow signs in the system device manager ?
hope that you find the solution...
sincerely KalvinKlein
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If you don't need to frequently access data in your Home folder, then I would (and I do.) Or you can move folders to a slow drive and put aliases to them on the SSD (this is how I do it.)
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Another more technical method involving the Terminal and aliases is discussed in depth here: Using OS X with an SSD plus HDD setup - Matt Gemmell. This is my preferred approach because I can select which of the Home's folders I want on the HDD and which I don't want. For example, I like to keep the Documents and Library folders on the SSD because I access their content frequently.
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