X61 with Kingston SSD

Hi all,
I just installed a Kingston 64 GB SSD into my laptop, replacing the old 80 GB 5400 RPM one. The drive starts up and works fine every other time. For example, if I'm running normally, and press "Restart", I get:
2100 - Hard drive initialization error
I turn off the computer manually, restart, and...it boots into Ubuntu again. This happens every other time without fail...anyone know what the problem could be?
I updated the bios, and the firmware for SSD, can someone help me resolve this?

try with various reboot param, it's a kernel parameter that has to be inserted @boot time, manually (to test it) or editing the grub.conf /menu.lst file.
try reboot=cold v.s reboot=warm and/or reboot=hard v.s reboot=bios.
I'm confident you will find the right option needed to fix your problem.

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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 have a mid-2009 MacBook Pro (13") with Kingston SSDNow v300 SSD drive with Mavericks OS X installed.
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Hi
I was just as frustated as you after installing the Kingston v300. I mean it's a solidly built drive with the reliability of kingston (I've been using their RAM for years and years in my desktop PC without problems). Unfortunately, for a the last 3 months I had it in my 2009 unibody white macbook, it was stuck at link speed 1.5.
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I just tried the SMC reset after reading the blog.
http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2010/12/04/how-when-why-to-reset-the-pram-smc-on -your-mac/#!w3XEY
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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.
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I'm going to venture a guess that the drive was not cloned properly.
The "new" drive must be in the machine's HDD bay, and the "old" one in the USB enclosure.
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The SSD I bought is Kingston SSDNow V100 Series SV100S2N/64GZ 2.5" 64GB which is this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139421
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Hello,
I have been using the previous model (64GB Kingston V+) in an X100e with no apparently ill effects for a little over half a year now. Obiviously, different models, but I wonder if the problem is due to some failure of the SSD. I had another brand of SSD which completely failed after having more and more timeouts after about ten hours of use, so it does seem there are some new failure modes to SSDs that we may not see with conventional rotating media type hard disk drives.
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