I've been attempting to upgrade my old, 2010-era DX58SO to accept a SATA III disk to be a boot drive for Windows 10. I can get SATA III drives, both SSD and regular platter drives, to be viable disks for storing data, but Windows 10 would not install on the 1st SSD that I bought, sent it back and got a SATA III platter drive, and the same thing happened. The Windows 10 install would stop and declare that the place I specified to install windows 10 was not acceptable (it was weeks ago, I don't remember the exact error message.)
I read somewhere on the net, can't find it now, that some old SATA II disk controllers will not work 100% with new SATA III disks. I therefore attempted to use an aux PCIe SATA III card to run the boot drive, but that is not possible either - the OS already has to be on the drive, presumably to load drivers for the card.
Have been trying ever since. I bought a new SSD locally, at Best Buy, and attempted to get it to install Windows 10. It did. I then attempted to start populating Windows 10 with my programs, and Windows 10 failed boot, said something about a memory error, and started checking my disk and executing a repair process. Apparently it doesn't like the new SSD either, as I had all my other disks unplugged so it wasn't any of them. In my mind, this reinforces the idea that some old SATA II disk controllers don't necessarily work 100% with new SATA III drives.
The boot process for windows 10 now simply hangs, with a fast blinking cursor in the upper left of the display, and goes no further. I think the SSD is fried. Am taking it back to Best Buy for a refund.
The question is, has anyone else seen behavior like this, and were you able to resolve it?
