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Installing mSata SSD to T520
I've used the following article to change my boot disk to mSATA Triple your speed Laptop magazine
EDIT: Win 7 pro / Lenovo T520 Thinkpad / 8GB ram.
I installed the mSATA Intel 525 120GB SATA III
quite a while ago and it's been sitting and doing nothing. I did run Intel tools on it and I also used Macrium to image the original HD and I plonked it down on the new mSATA.
Laptop has been rebooted many times. mSATA seems stable.
I got to the step in the article above where I'm supposed to boot to the mSATA and load easyBCD to change the drive letter.
Last 'successful' step was going into the BIOS and changing the boot option to the SSD.
When I try to boot I get
Autochk program not found, skipping and BSOD.
The BSOD is very quick and unusually short. It looks like 2 or 3 lines only. The laptop then quickly reboots.
The mSATA is MBR and has only one partition.
I have no idea what to do next. Any help would be appreciated.
The good news is that I can still boot to the original HD and Win 7 still works!
EDIT: Apparently this means there is a problem with the boot record.
I loaded the Win 7 disc and tried a system repair. It ran but couldn't repair.
Went into recovery cmd prompt as administrator.
/bootrec rebuilding - found 0 windows installs
/mbr and /fixboot .... both end unsucsefully
Last edited by ChrisPbass; 08 Dec 2013 at 16:35.