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My SSD is dead ?

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Hiya

since latest months of 2009 i've runned on my desktop an INTEL SSD X25M-G2 80 Gb..until now...

Yesterday suddenly without any bad advise my Windows 7 prof 64 won't start anymore...

Booting from my secondary HD with Vista 32 i can see the SSD but it is empty and only 8 MB are recognized over 80 GB !!!! I've tried many ways and many recovery software but i cannot still see my 80 GB's...

SSD has worked regularly every day and optimized every week with toolbox....

Someone can help me ?

Thanks in advance and happy new 2011 to all !!

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idata
Esteemed Contributor III

I would try a secure erase and if that did not work I'd send it back for RMA. I'd put your chances of getting data back (before the secure erase) as zero.

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Thanks for answer !

No prob for data...can you tell me what is best software for secure erase and how to run it ?

Thanks again

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

You need to run HDDERASE, which operates in DOS. If you don't have a floppy drive (who does nowadays) you will need to make a bootable disk. If you search this forum there is a thread that explains how to do this. A bit of help can also be found here: http://www.techblo.gg/?p=88 http://www.techblo.gg/?p=88

The Toolbox also runs a secure erase command. If you can plug the drive into another system you might find that easier to do.

From what you describe it sounds like a controller failure, but a secure erase if worth a shot.

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Many thanks REDUX..

now i try secure erase