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Sabrent 8TB SSD Fried My Laptop

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Hi all,

 

I follow you guys on YouTube and watched your segment on the Sabrent 8TB SSD.  Purchased on Jun 28th of this year and had been working fine till 3 days ago.  

 

My laptop and or SSD is not functionally well.   I ran chkdsk via safe mode and windows found errors which it tried to repair.  Didn't work.  The weird thing is if I ran chkdsk logged in as administrator in command prompt windows doesn't detect anything there... Wired.

 

Another weird thing is that when I reset my laptop using windows reset feature to reinstalled during the process I got the Blue Screen of Death but unfortunately I did not see the message in time as it flashed before my eyes.

 

It eventually installed but blued on my a few times in windows.Whats more is if I right click the desktop progress wheel spins and not stopping and thus no right click access.

 

What do you guys suggest I do?  I paid 2000+.  $ Canadian dollars for this.

 

For context I have or did have a functional Matebook X Pro 16Gb Ram 1.8gz quad core with the afformentioned Sabrent 8tb SSD.  Laptop 2018/19 model.

 

Any advice will help.

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I'm confused with what the actual problem is. Is it that your have errors in Chkdsk or is Windows itself not functioning well? Why did you need to use the Reset Feature? You're better off just formatting and reinstalling Windows from scratch if you ever need to use the Reset feature. 

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If it worked for 6 months your SSD didn't "fry your laptop", but something simply failed randomly.

 

Put back the old SSD to see if the issue is with the SSD or the laptop itself.

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I had a computer shop cloned original to the Sabrent and asked to remove the boot function of the original.

 

I don't know how to put that boot function back as the Bios does detect the original SSD but not as a bootable option.  Can't afford to go back to the shop.

 

Any idea how to get SSD discoverable as bootable?

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I reset the laptop as I thought it had a virus so I reset.  I know stupid move.

 

My laptop was functioning weirdly. Just stopped working. So I reboot. Couldn't get back into windows. So that's when I decided to reset.

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8 minutes ago, 8Bitsfun said:

I reset the laptop as I thought it had a virus so I reset.  I know stupid move.

 

My laptop was functioning weirdly. Just stopped working. So I reboot. Couldn't get back into windows. So that's when I decided to reset.

Try reinstalling it from scratch, using a USB drive with Windows on it. Not from the reset option. It certainly doesn't sound like anything "fried" your computer.

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9 minutes ago, 8Bitsfun said:

I reset the laptop as I thought it had a virus so I reset.  I know stupid move.

 

My laptop was functioning weirdly. Just stopped working. So I reboot. Couldn't get back into windows. So that's when I decided to reset.

I would just format the drive, and install a fresh copy of Windows and see where that takes you. I wouldn't have asked the shop to remove the boot function from your original drive. But since your Sabrent is basically a clone of your original, at least you can still retrieve your data from the original as a storage device. 

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19 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I would just format the drive, and install a fresh copy of Windows and see where that takes you. I wouldn't have asked the shop to remove the boot function from your original drive. But since your Sabrent is basically a clone of your original, at least you can still retrieve your data from the original as a storage device. 

It's the Sabrent is the issue.   I want to use the original again.  Hmm yah I guess I'll have to wait to go back to the shop.

 

Thanks for looking into this.

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4 hours ago, 8Bitsfun said:

It's the Sabrent is the issue.   I want to use the original again.  Hmm yah I guess I'll have to wait to go back to the shop.

 

Thanks for looking into this.

How do you know that the Sabrent is the issue?
It could be fine, and that you putting it in triggered something else to break.

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