SSD catastrophic failure

[mckrackin5324]

I have an SSD that has suddenly disappeared from my system.

I can run third party programs to repair it but as soon as the repair starts,it says the drive has been removed.

 

I've plugged it into every SATA port and hot swap dock and always the same thing...It will show for a few seconds and disappear.

 

What happened to it?

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

The SSD failed.RMA it.

[Dubesta11]

I have an SSD that has suddenly disappeared from my system.

I can run third party programs to repair it but as soon as the repair starts,it says the drive has been removed.

 

I've plugged it into every SATA port and hot swap dock and always the same thing...It will show for a few seconds and disappear.

 

What happened to it?

 

What kind is it? Makes a huge difference, like comparing a Kingston to a Samsung.

[mckrackin5324]

Corsair.

Force GS 128GB

[mckrackin5324]

Had it a few months. Doubt I could RMA it at this point but I will try.

[mckrackin5324]

Odd...it doesn't even show in my order history at Newegg.

I may have purchased as a guest with Paypal but I know I have done that a few other times and those items are in my items purchased list.

[mckrackin5324]

This is as close as I can get to it...

[Grrizz]

Had it a few months. Doubt I could RMA it at this point but I will try.

A few months? SSD warranties are usually between 3-10 years

[mckrackin5324]

A few months? SSD warranties are usually between 3-10 years

Refurbished.

[Grrizz]

Refurbished.

Ahhh right.

[Jarsky]

I suggest you RMA it to its manufacturer and get a replacement or your money back.

 

Should ask how old it is before saying that. Many people have SSD's that are beyond warranty/RMA. 

 

But yeah, have had 1 of my SSD's die in the past. The big difference between SSD's and HDD's dying, is once the SSD drops, you ain't getting data off it. 

[Micky Love]

I have an SSD that has suddenly disappeared from my system.

I can run third party programs to repair it but as soon as the repair starts,it says the drive has been removed.

 

I've plugged it into every SATA port and hot swap dock and always the same thing...It will show for a few seconds and disappear.

 

What happened to it?

 

- burn a Linux iso of your choice (Ubuntu, Debian, etc) and boot with it, then try to access your data... Sometimes, when it doesn't work in Windows, it works in Linux.

- If you don't care about your data, under Windows, open the terminal as admin, type diskpart and press enter. Type list disk, press enter and take note of the defective SSD number. Type select disk (number of the disk) ex: select disk 3 and press enter. Type clean and press enter (if there is an error message, try the last command clean 2 or 3 times). Now go in the disk manager and try to initiate your SSD and format. Good luck !

[mckrackin5324]

That looks interesting Micky.

As a random thought,I stuck it in my PS3.

There is 24 GB of area that it can't do anything with. But it made a 104 GB partition it can use as storage.

Sure it would be nice to have the extra 40 GB of storage on the PS3 but that means starting from scratch and downloading a ton of stuff again as well as installing all my games again.

I had started it on the FULL format just before reading this. It will take seven hours.

I might interrupt it and try what you said.

[mckrackin5324]

Update...

 

Whatever the quick format the PS3 did made the SSD discoverable.

It showed up in disk management...Huge step in the right direction.

 

It showed as a FAT32 device obviously because the PS3 made it so.

 

It said it must be formatted to use. I started the format and it got 29% and failed.

Then off to the races with Micky Love's suggestion since now at least the computer acknowledges the existence of Disk 2. 

 

Clean was successful in under two seconds...wow?

 

Back to disk management...format....failed.

Opened AOMEI disk partition tool...Disk 2 is there as unallocated space. Another huge step...this tool is more aggressive than Window by a long shot.

 

Format Disk 2...Completed

Create simple volume....COMPLETED!

 

Back to Disk Management...

 

Disk 0 119GB (C:)Healthy Boot

Disk 1 956GB  (E:)Healthy Primary Partition

 

Drum roll......

 

Disk 2 119GB (New Volume F:)Healthy Primary Partition

 

       

[mckrackin5324]

Update to update....disappeared after restart :angry:

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

That sounds like an SSD that doesn't realize it is dead.  Get in touch with Corsair and pray that they are still willing to replace it. 

 

And as advice for the future I'd suggest never buying refurbished storage again.  A HDD or SSD that has gone wrong once, will almost always go wrong again even if repaired by the manufacturer. 

[stconquest]

I have a refurbished Corsair Force 3, this is my second one.  My first one died in 6 months... contact Corsair and explain your situation.  The drive may not be "top-notch", but the warranty with Corsair is.

[mckrackin5324]

Newegg just said it is outside manufacturer warranty.

[mckrackin5324]

I can get it to work now but the ONLY way it will work is connected by USB 2.0

 

Won't work with any SATA ports or hot swap. It won't even work in USB 3.0

 

USB 2.0 or nothing.

 

I guess I could leave it dangling behind the computer.lol...