What happens to OLD OS?

b00merang69 · 26 Dec 2019 at 23:04

You obv do did not read my reasons (plural), stop moving the goalposts, you are beginning to get on my ****.

Minstadave · 26 Dec 2019 at 23:07

b00merang69 said:
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You could just say you were wrong, you know, like a grown up?

tally2425 · 26 Dec 2019 at 23:26

Well I used Samsung magician to erase it but it says my SSD is frozen and yes it will just be for storage and won’t be selling, so will it be damaged if I just format it or not?

Minstadave · 26 Dec 2019 at 23:34

tally2425 said:
Well I used Samsung magician to erase it but it says my SSD is frozen and yes it will just be for storage and won’t be selling, so will it be damaged if I just format it or not?

The Samsung frozen state bug seems quite common, what drive is it? Some info here:

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/ssd-frozen-state-repair-help.1978812/

Once unfrozen you’ll be fine to just format it.

b00merang69 · 27 Dec 2019 at 00:03

No, frozen is a state, you need to reboot once it says that also AFAIR if you are in SATA or possible even RAID mode (even single drive) you need to temp change back to AHCI Mode.

Can your Mobo not do this ?

My Mobo but principle is the same: