Lets start off with the for sure things that are simple.
When you get the computer back from the shop.
***Check and see how many anti virus programs you have installed.
You must have only one anti virus program on one computer at one time.***
Let us know what the repair shop finds and what they corrected.
The only time I see two AV's playing well together is when its with MSE. Even then, I don't think its really needed.
All good advice about multiple AVs. I recon the OP tried them one at a time, or ran them independently. I would not assume he installed them all on the hard drive at the same time.
EDIT: you should confirm that dc42nr86. Did you install more than one at the same time?
But I don't see how any of that is going to explain erased partitions.
Sorry, those were all the ones I used to scan. Only one was on the system at each time. Two more days until I get it back, wish me luck!
Yes I rather guessed it was that as loading that many would have taken forever on bootoh and good luck.
I got the machine back from the store I bought it from with no luck at all. The repair tech think it has something to do with lenovo's firmware on the hard drives. He says there might be a key on the HD that needs to match the motherboard or something. It looks like this machine still has warranty so I'm going to be calling Lenovo up and see from there.
Good idea mate as I have never heard of a "key" for a hard drive - the OS yes which is tied to that motherboard by the rules of using Windows especially an OEM version which Lenovo would have been using their licensing agreement with Microsoft. The retail version that an individual can buy is transferrable on a certain number of occasions to be used on one machine albeit a different one at any one time ie if the original motherboard should be bricked or you just buy a new machine and not use the previous one.
I stand to be corrected on what I have stated of course but as far as I know that is how it is.
Yours is a very unusual problem. It will probably take some out of the box thinking to track it down.
But the basic fact is that this machine does not function correctly and it is under warranty so it makes sense to get satisfaction through the manufacturer.
That said, there is firmware in a hard drive, but it is not Lenovo's firmware, it's Samsung's. And since you tried a second drive it is less likely it could be a corrupted firmware.
That leaves your PC firmware - the BIOS. If you have reset the BIOS defaults, and set the SATA Controller to AHCI mode, then it should work with any hard drive, spinning or SSD. The system will make no distinction.
You might check to see if there is a BIOS update that addresses SATA issues. Be sure you know the best way to update a BIOS before attempting an update though.
But if the SSD works normally in another computer then I suspect there is a problem with the SATA controller on your motherboard.
Did this system come with a spinning hard drive? Does the same thing happen if you install Wiondows on the spinner?
I haven't tried on a spinning hard disk. The computer knows there a hard drive connected (per bios, diskpart, and even the bootmgr). I hope Lenovo takes care of it because I think I've tried everything lol
Lenovo is sending me a repair disk, they think it has something to do with it activating the retail version vs oem version -_-, we'll see lol
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