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Hey guys, Im having some trouble getting my laptop to boot up, basically whenever it loads up it hangs on the windows logo also windows repair doesn't work and if I go to safe mode it hangs on windows/system32/drivers/amdkmpfd.sys, Im guessing it's an amd driver issue, I suppose my only option is to take the ssd to a computer shop to get it formatted, anyone have any other suggestions as to what it could be and what could have caused it? Thanks

 

Fault in the SSD or a corrupt Win7 installation is more likely

 

If you have a Windows disc you can reinstall it yourself instead of bringing it into a computer shop. Just put the disc in the optical drive and the computer should start the process. Just follow the on screen prompts. You will wipe all the information on the drive by doing this though.

 

If you want to keep your files, you can try to boot it with a linux live cd/usb

Basically you boot linux from cd or usb and acess the files on your windows disk to save them.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

 

If you have a desktop you can also hook it up into an available SATA port in there.

 

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Either will work

Good luck to you.

 

Thanks for the help guys, I think it's definately possible it's an ssd issue as I recently installed a samsung 840 pro and tbh it was a bit iffy when I first installed it, I had to format it just to get my machine to recognise it, as it's a secondary hard drive I think removing it would be good place to start, I would rather avoid formatting my primary drive if possible as I bought the laptop second hand and the previous owner flashed a new bios and overclocked the cpu aswell as increase the voltage and I dont have the technical know how to do all that

 

Good info here from the community! A Live CD (doesn't need to be Linux, although Linux should work just as well) will get you easy access to your Windows directories. If you can get a copy of Hiren's Boot CD, you can also use Mini Windows XP from that for the same purpose. You can navigate to the AMD driver directory from there and make any modifications to it necessary to troubleshoot.

But if a live OS doesn't work for whatever reason, the other suggestions are very useful.

 

Took the 840 out and my laptop turned on fine, tried the 840 on my mates desktop and it's saying it's corrupted, looks like it's fubar'd

 

That was my guess too....its got warranty, so you should be covered

 

830 or 840? Not sure if you made a spelling error because your sig shows a 830. If it was a 840 I have a question. Did you have it updated to the latest firmware?

 

That's definitely a plus, planning to claim on this one

840 pro, I have an 830 as my primary drive, I didn't update the firmware on it but I was under the impression that ssd's are generally plug in and go devices with no real driver updates needed

 

They dont have to have their drivers updated like video cards or other hardware devices but SSD do have firmware updates to fix problems as they are reported. Always good to updated an SSD. I have a OCZ and a Crucial and they've had updates.

I know Samsung has released firmware updates for the 840/Pro

 

Hutsady makes a good point. Firmware updates are about as necessary and frequented as BIOS updates. They're main focus is to address critical problems. It's always a good practice to update the firmware on the drive, but it's seldom necessary.

In any case, it does sound like the drive itself is faulty. Hopefully Samsung takes good care of you!

 

The early 840 Pro firmware had a bug that caused the drive to fail prematurely which was fixed in the firmware updates. That's why I asked. Either way Samsung will most likely honour their warranty.