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X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

I have used this drive for 2 days now in my MacBook Pro (early 2008). Before I installed anything I successfully updated the firmware to the latest release (045C8820) and at last I was very happy with the drive's performance.

Now, after a restart the drive seems to be broken, in system profiler the drive's capacity is 8mb, modell stays INTEL SSDSA2MH160G1GC but now the strange part-> serial is shown as BAD_CTX.

Well, anyone has an idea? Perhaps a way to reset the drive or is it broken?

Of course this happens on saturday, 1 day before my vacation

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idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Seems you are not alone, although I think this is rare. Try hdderase. If that does not work try to reflash. Otherswise it looks like an rma.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=83&threadid=2292224 http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=83&threadid=2292224

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Would it be possible to explain how we are supposed to flash the ssd drive, I am not a computer expert and I'm sure there are other folks in the forum that can benefit from a detailed procedure on how to revive the dead ssd drives by flashing them.

The utilities you describe do not work with 64 bit win 7 so how are we supposed to fix the issue ????

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

I have the same problem with my INTEL SSDSA2BW160G3L.

Any news why this happens and on how to solve it properly?

How can I make a boot disk with hderase on it?

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

There is latest firmware available on Intel website address to this issue, but the data on the drive is not recoverable.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18363 http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18363