poldas Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 I think that it isn't the problem with cable because disk is present, but never after start the laptop. After press power button BIOS doesn't see the disk, I have to do "soft restart" ctrl+alt+delete and then disk is visible and OS starting. I can do reboot and still everything is good, but when I power off my laptop, on the next run BIOS can't see it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted June 4, 2015 Administrators Share Posted June 4, 2015 Could be the adapter, could be the SSD, could be the BIOS... Difficult to say... If you're not running the latest BIOS (A09), update it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poldas Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 I have the leastes BIOS - A09, mSATA disk is new so I think it coulde be a problem with mSATA to ZIF adapter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted June 4, 2015 Administrators Share Posted June 4, 2015 I'd check that everything was properly fitted physically. That little flat ribbon cable is not the easiest of all to refit on the ZIF adapter side. I've also experienced situations where an external USB device (key of HDD) would behave the same and it was a problem of partition scheme/format type: the key or HDD would not be recognized when partitioned GPT with OS X extended format, only if partioned MBR with FAT/FAT32 formatting. I'd be surprised if you had such similar problem with a SSD but you never know... Or the SSD could simply be slow to get powered up/responsive at POST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trag Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Could a flat CMOS battery (under the keyboard, IIRC) cause this problem? The laptop detects the SSD but can't remember what it detected later and must re-detect it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted June 4, 2015 Administrators Share Posted June 4, 2015 Flat CMOS Battery would normally trigger a BIOS error at power-on as the other settings would be back to default too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poldas Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 BIOS batterry is OK because other settings are stored Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poldas Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I bought next mSATA to ZIF adapter but is the same situation, my DELL D430 doesn't recognize disk in first start... I can't check another disk because I don't have second... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted September 2, 2015 Administrators Share Posted September 2, 2015 So, you've changed mSATA to ZIF adapter and problem remains? We can rule out a faulty adapter then, which leaves you with following likely causes: damaged ribbon cable loose/unreliable ribbon cable connection (ZIF end and/or adapter end) wrong SSD partition scheme or format type faulty or somehow incompatible SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poldas Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 I have 2 DELL D430 and I've checked adapter on 2 laptops, so i think that we can rule out ribbon cable. I think that problem with recognize device in BIOS couldn't be partition scheme. So it have to be incompatible mSATA disk which works properly in computer without adapter - I tested it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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