Sorry for the length of this post, but it will be necessary to explain what I am seeing. I purchased a Samsung 850 EVO SSD (500 gb) about 18 months ago. I installed it into my Samsung laptop, along with new RAM. About 6 months ago, the computer had some issues and I bought a replacement, a Samsung Notebook 7 Spin. Before I bought it, I checked with Samsung to make sure there would be no compatibility issues with swapping the existing HDD out with my EVO SSD. They said it would be just fine.
Well, I cloned the "new" HDD (Toshiba) onto my Samsung 850 EVO and installed it. Everything was fine for about 3 months, then I started to get this random error on a restart or reboot: "All boot options are tried. Press <F4> key to recover with factory image using Recovery or any other keys for next loop iteration". When I pressed F4, the same error message would occur. So, I googled it and went into the bios settings and adjusted the start up/boot up according to others that have had this issue. I did the following: bios setting > boot> disabled secure boot>os made selection >cms and uefi os > save and exit..
This seemed to work for about 10 weeks, then about 2 weeks ago, it started again. Most of the time I could reboot it a few times and it would start up. But not this time. It wouldn't do anything but give me that same error message again. So, I get home and put the HDD back in the laptop and it is working fine. So I figure bad SSD, which is under warranty, by the way. I get out my Sabrent docking station to see if the drive is dead.. Well, when I plugged it up to my desktop, I am able to access all of the info on the EVO 850.
My question is this: If the SSD is bad, could I still access it through the docking station? Is it normal to be able to access something like this but it can't boot up for some reason?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions..