I have a somewhat old Lenovo T410 and wanted to breathe life into it by putting in an SSD. I bought an ADATA SP550 SSD and when I put it in the hard drive slot I get some odd behavior.
First the system is very slow to boot to anything - whether it be BIOS, or a live Linux USB, or an OS on another hard drive in the optical bay caddy. I think what's going on here is the BIOS is trying to read from the SSD and is taking a long time to figure it out and failing.
Second, the SSD DOES show up in the BIOS as a bootable device, HDD0. I can move it up and down in the boot order normally. Of course right now it had nothing on it.
Third, the SSD is not recognized as a device by an OS. I booted to a live Linux USB and that didn't see it. I also booted from a Lenovo SSD fimrware update bootable CD and that didn't see it either.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm almost resigned to returning this SSD but it seems ridiculous that it's not working. What kind of compatibility factors could I have missed?
First the system is very slow to boot to anything - whether it be BIOS, or a live Linux USB, or an OS on another hard drive in the optical bay caddy. I think what's going on here is the BIOS is trying to read from the SSD and is taking a long time to figure it out and failing.
Second, the SSD DOES show up in the BIOS as a bootable device, HDD0. I can move it up and down in the boot order normally. Of course right now it had nothing on it.
Third, the SSD is not recognized as a device by an OS. I booted to a live Linux USB and that didn't see it. I also booted from a Lenovo SSD fimrware update bootable CD and that didn't see it either.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm almost resigned to returning this SSD but it seems ridiculous that it's not working. What kind of compatibility factors could I have missed?
