A Dead SSD?

[kgrevemberg]

Hey guys, I have a corsair neutron ssd, which according to Newegg's review section, isnt very reliable. Anywho, I had one with a windows 10 system on it and one day while on the desktop, it just froze and never worked again.

The pc was used for general use at the time with a 2 month old install of windows 10. The desktop had no programs running at the time and was sitting at the wallpaper. It suddenly froze and that was that.

Ive moved on to another SSD but I still have the corsair. I can see the corsair in the Asrock z77 bios but cannot boot to it. Furthermore, when I boot to the other drive with the corsair installed, the system freezes at the desktop.

Any ideas on how i can wipe this thing and maybe make it usable for something again?

 

[JackNaylorPE]

I have struggled with a couple of failed SSDs .... couldn't do anything with it installed ina PC but for some strange reason a full format using one of these brought one back to life

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=blacx&N=-1&isNodeId=1

 

[smorizio]

if you can find the controller used on the ssd then try using a dos daat ssd wipe program and or firmware update.

 

[kgrevemberg]

if you can find the controller used on the ssd then try using a dos daat ssd wipe program and or firmware update.

Would happen to have insight on how I might start that endeavor?

 

[smorizio]

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/support/downloads
cosair ssd toolbox software

 

[kgrevemberg]

If i plug the SSD in with windows running, the system doesn't see the SSD in device manager or disk manager. If i boot the system with the SSD installed the system freezes at desktop

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Doing the plug / unplug thing while Windows is running * is a good way to cause the problem you are experiencing.

* outside of a Hot Swap setup

 

[kgrevemberg]

Doing the plug / unplug thing while Windows is running * is a good way to cause the problem you are experiencing.

* outside of a Hot Swap setup

Since I already have the issue on the drive Im ok with it. Its dead to me either way. Plugging it in after the system is running is the only way I can get into windows without the system freezing on me sfor some unknown reason.

 

[kgrevemberg]

I can now see the drive in disk manager. When i try to initialize it I get "disk error cyclic redundancy check"

 

[JackNaylorPE]

1. What is plugged into what SATA port ? Boot order defaults to lowest numbered SATA port 1st. My guess is that the reason it doesn't boot when the old SSD is plugged in is because it's is seeing the SSD before the new one.

SATA 1 = New SSD
SATA 2 = Old SSD
SATA 3 = HD

Note some MoBos start at 0 so adjust accordingly if that applies

2. When booting, go to BIOS and make sure it's seeing Boot order as above

3. Again, accessing it thru a USB connector in an external (BlacX) rather than an internal SATA connector has worked for me. Worth having around fior back ups