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I had my HDD or cached drive fail in my surface pro, not sure which, but it basically complained about bad blocks and wouldn’t run. So i figured i would do the SSD replacements detailed here and on http://cesardelatorre.azurewebsites.net/…. I appreciate all the writeups on this, made it a lot easier to get done. Everything went fine, hardware wise. Drives both replaced, and both visible to windows install, and no smoke. I CAN install windows, however when I try to update the iastora Raid driver, I either get a bluescreen, or it hangs on reboot, and never comes back. Same happens when I try to run the latest Surface studio driver pack, it just hangs at boot, where the dots circle. I posted a bit more detail on microsoft site, but it doesn’t look like they support this. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surf… Has anyone tried this recently, or maybe has some ideas on getting the drivers setup right? Thank you, Jim
Any specific blue screen code or memory dump? This could at least somehow point to the right direction for troubleshooting. Surface is actually slightly more than regular PCs, with custom firmware and platform drivers, which may not expect modified configurations.
Did you upgrade your BIOS (if it’s even possible in Sirface Studio, which I don’t know for sure)? If not, try that. Not sure what else could help (except trying to install everything when necessary drives are connected to another machine, but I doubt that would work).
Looks like this may be a case of the driver not liking the NVMe Drive I chose. I put the original tiny ssd in, and it picked up just fine. I now have windows installed there and fully updated. I can’t get the WD Black nvme drive to get past the driver updates. I also tried swapping it back in after all the firmware updates, and still no good. As far as I can tell online the WD and Samsungs have all the same specs, and are comparable devices. I’m going to try eventually with the recommended Samsung NVMe 960 pro, after a while. For now I’m just happy to have gotten it back online. It is definitely faster, even with the stock ssd. boots almost instantly. I probably wouldn’t have even thought of doing this, if my HDD hadn’t crashed completely. Thanks for all the suggestions!!
I thought you could only use SATA 3 ssd M.2 stick in the first gen studio and not MVMe…?
