ssd Gigabyte SSD crash when installing Windows and Drivers...

[Lasky]

Hello again LTT fans...

 

I am wondering if anyone knows what if anything could be causing this poroblem...

 

I have had an ADATA SU650 SSD with 128GB of space in a Dell Inspiron 1545 for a while, and recently it started to fail on me.  It was within the 1 years warranty that the store has with all its sales, and as a result, I got a replacement for it, and ended up with a GIGABYTE GP-GSTFS31120GNTD which has 120GB storage space on it.

 

I did what I have always done with every drive I have had that I planned to use as an operating system drive, as in this case.  I install Windows 7, from an original boot DVD that I got from a store, and then install Windows after going through the various options that the installation has.  My issue is that every time, I install the system drivers, and on occasion, when I am installing Windows, I get a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) and when the system restarts, the bios reports "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter".

 

This is after it crashes on a blue screen on TWO completely different systems, one the above mentioned laptop and a GA-78LMT-USB3 motherboard with an AMD FX-8350 CPU and 16GB of RAM.  The crashes seem to be after a complete freeze of the system with nothing connected aside from the Blu-ray drive (for installing Windows from original boot disk) and the SSD for installing on.  Here are a few screenshots of the errors I am facing...

 

 

These two photos of my PC output to a 4K TV, the first one being the bluescreen itself, and the second being straight after it restarts, and wont boot until I shut it down fully then restart it...

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

It might be noteworthy that I am able to install Windows, drivers and programs on other SSD's, just not this one and it is a brand new drive!

[Dedayog]

I'd simply install Win 10 Pro straight from a USB and skip the 7 then upgrade, you introduce layers of old and patched and updated driver and files.  

 

Go without activation or pay $10-15 for a Win 10 key, it's money well spent over the way you do it now.

[Lasky]

I don't really want to upgrade to Windows 10 because some of my devices do not work on Windows 10, regardless of how much I want to upgrade.

[Zmax]

Are you doing a clean install . Try formatting the new drive

[Lasky]

I have done clean installs, reformatting it every time.

[Lasky]

So I have tried this problematic SSD on a THIRD system, and it does the EXACT same thing.  The HDD LED goes static for a few seconds, then goes off, then the taskbar disappears and that the Blue Screen of Death appears!  This is with installing Windows 7 Professional on it for the laptop I have a licence for it on.

 

I can upload a video I took on my phone if that helps?

 

Also, when it is on a BSoD, it says "initialising disk for data dump" but it can't finish because the SSD has "dropped" off the system!

 

This is incredibly frustrating!  Nobody believes me even though I have shown clear undeniable proof!

 

Perhaps this video will help LTT members diagnose my problem...