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    Samsung SSD 840 PRO \ Samsung Magican fails to authenticate my ssd

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Sirios, Mar 24, 2014.

  1. Sirios

    Sirios Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi there!

    The subject. My Samsung SSD 840 PRO fails to authenticate by Samsung Magican and above of this I can not set Over Provisioning, Magican says "Unable to access the last volume".

    Version of Samsung Magican 4.3
    SSD firmware version DXM06B0Q
    Serial S12RNEACC92528V
     
    Sirios, Mar 24, 2014
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  2. hailgod

    hailgod Notebook Evangelist

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    u should be going to samsung's website and asking those people to help u in authenticating.
     
    hailgod, Mar 24, 2014
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  3. ellalan

    ellalan Notebook Deity

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    You can create an unallocated partition of 10-20% of your ssd by going in to disk management.
     
    ellalan, Mar 24, 2014
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  4. Sirios

    Sirios Notebook Enthusiast

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    The question is, that I use that SSD for almost 2 years, and it was OK so far, only that month, after I upgraded Firmware and Magician app it started to fail with authentication.
     
    Sirios, Mar 24, 2014
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  5. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Did you try reinstalling Magician 4.3? I just noticed that it no longer reports the Total Bytes Written and can no longer read the SMART data for my EVO mSATA (probably the reason for no TBW).

    It used to do this OK so I re-installed the software to overwrite the current installation and now it's working again.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Mar 25, 2014
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  6. Sirios

    Sirios Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yep, done it twice:

    1. Just uninstall - restart - reinstall (no result)

    2. Uninstall - cleaned all related to Magician keys in windows register - restart - install (no result)

    And it still failure to authenticate and OP does not work. I have tried previous version of Magician, still no hope.
     
    Sirios, Mar 25, 2014
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  7. Turnbull2000

    Turnbull2000 Notebook Consultant

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    I had been unable to update my EVO firmware since purchase, and then suddenly unable to authenticate after installing the latest Magician. Removing Intel Rapid Storage Technology finally allowed me to do both!
     
    Turnbull2000, Mar 25, 2014
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  8. Sirios

    Sirios Notebook Enthusiast

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    You are my saviour! I have installed the latest version of Intel Rapid Technology and Magician can authenticate my SSD again! But still no hope with OP, so I have used Acronis disk manager and made some unallocated space for OP.
     
    Sirios, Mar 25, 2014
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  9. n=1

    n=1 YEAH SCIENCE!

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    There's no need for any external software to do OP. Simply hit up "compmgmt.msc" and then click "Disk Management" on the left panel. From there you can set the unallocated space for each drive you have in your laptop.
     
    n=1, Mar 25, 2014
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  10. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    Or right click start menu (win 8) and go straight to Disk Management or Win 7 click start menu, right click "Computer" and "Manage".
     
    HTWingNut, Mar 26, 2014
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  11. John Ratsey

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    The problem of SSD Magician not reporting the TBW for my EVO mSATA has reappeared.

    Re-installation of SSD Magician did not fix the problem this time around so I uninstalled Intel Rapid Storage and SSD Magician is working again, at the moment. I wait to see whether this situation continues.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Mar 30, 2014
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