zogthegreat Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Hi everyone! I'm trying to install Big Sur on my Latitude E7270 on a WD Black PCIe 512GB, (WD512G1X0C-00ENX0), and I'm having a problem. I can boot and do the initial installation. However, once the system reboots, I get dumped back into the installer, with no option to continue the installation. On a hunch, I swapped the WD for my Hynix SC300 256gb, (SATA), and Big Sur installed with no problem. Opening a terminal and running "diskutil list" gives me the following: #: TYPE NAME Size IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *512.1 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 511.9 GB disk0s2 So the drive is formatting properly, but every time, it drops me back to the basic installer, with no options displayed to continue the install. It really seems that the problem is the drive, but I'm stumped as to what it could be. I had Catalina running on this drive for about a year with no issues. I can install Windows 10 and Linux on the drive, it just seems to be a problem with OSX. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! zog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryV Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) Have you checked to see if there is a firmware upgrade for your drive? There was an issue with Samsung SSDs working AFTER a firmware upgrade. WD also has free download of Acronis Mac OS backup software if you are using a WD drive. Edited March 31, 2021 by HenryV addendum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zogthegreat Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 So it seems that my WD SSD is defective. I reinstalled Window 10 on it and I kept getting BSOD's. I'm RMAing the drive and will retry when it comes back to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zogthegreat Posted July 8, 2021 Author Share Posted July 8, 2021 This is just to follow up incase someone else has a similar problem. The drive was defective and I sent it into WD for RMA. After 4 months, they finally sent me a replacement drive. However, instead of a 512GB, the nice people at Western Digital sent me a 1TB instead! The moral of this story is if you keep having problems, check your hardware, you might have a problem. And always RMA defective hardware if you can. You might get a free upgrade like I did! 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Hello @zogthegreat Please do the following: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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