compatible SSD for CF-52

Hello,
Can anybody help me on this:
I have my Panasonic CF-52 (CPU P8400, Ram 2Gb) replaced the original HDD with the intel gen2 SSD.
I got win 7 for it. I downloaded all the windows 7 drivers from the Panasonic support website ( CF-52 and win 7 of course !) .
The install went on smoothly but after using for some days, one morning I turned on and Win & report the hardware problem and it must restart. I let it restart.
it was very strange that windows shut down and when boot on, my machine LCD said that it just could not find the boot partition.
I then rechecked the Intel SSD , all the data or partitions has gone, even the windows data in C drive.
I did the WIN 7 install again but then after some first update of Win 7 , the same problem came again.
I even replaced the Intel SSD with the 128Gb Samsung SSD. This time , the machine worked soothly for more than 1 week, then one day after booting , the User account appear, and I click to my admin user account and it said that "The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded".
This time I see that the win 7 data is still there, but my user profile and my data in the other 2 partitions has gone also.
All this happens again and again, Is there any body have the same thing on your machine when using win 7. Is it the hardware incompatability or the windows 7 issue ? I always use the function Hibernate when shutdown.
I am really much appreciated if some one can help on this or I have to back to HDD for data safety.

 

That is strange, I have Windows 7 on a 32 Gigabite Trancend SSD and I have not had any problems. I know for a fact that during Windows 7 installation that a 100 mb invisible partition is created for I think is a boot partition. I know that Intel supports their SSDs unlike Trancend, if you have not done so I would suggest that you download and apply the latest firmware updates for your particular drive. The only other thing that might cause a problem is if you set up your partitions rather than letting the windows installer define the partition. In that case I would let the windows installer do what it wants, then repartition after the install.

 

Thank KLonsdale for your advice. I did let Windows reserve the invisible partition you said. I also did the partitioning after the windows setup.
I am confused myself since such problems happened.
I had upgraded the Intel SSD to the lastest firmware (02HD) before those installs.
It might be the Windows 7 and the CF-52 hardware conflict or incorrect setting in the Bios.
I am not sure , I think I would do something in the Bios setting and make another try.

 

I have crashed my cf-19 mk-1 with a 16GB Mtron MOBI 3500 SSD
Just set it aside to figure out later
Same issues O/S not found, but running XP
No problems with my samsung slc ssd 32 and 64GB drives in the same computer running Vista and W7
Have you run tests on the drive like HD tune for errors?

Alex

 

After some tryouts.
I have my Cf-52 running stable.
I think there are some issues with the drivers for the SSD, You may see that Win 7 has drivers for most of the device but actually SSD need the specific drivers that come with the laptop.
Moreover , I also suspect that I did not install the updated drivers correctly for the TPM module and the integrated chipset of the main board so that it can see the SSD in details ,not as general storage device.
After the win 7 installation was done, I just check the devices list to see any device that can not recognize by win 7 and I re-install specific drivers for them.
I am still testing the system to see if what I did can really fix the issue. I dare not to lay all my data into the SSD yet .

Hello Alex,
My Intel SSD is ok, I have to use Killdisk to erase all data and let win 7 install smoothly after that.
Ok, now just wait and see....

 

Sounds like you are on the right track, I wonder if this issue is limited to Intel SSDs, I know that my Windows 7 installations sees my Trancend SSD not as an SSD but as a very fast rotational drive, that said, the installer identified my SSD as such and correctly aligned the partition with the proper off-set. As far as I know Trancend has no plans to offer firmware updates for my particular model.