I Defraged my SSD, now it's unusable

[iridium117]

I got myself a 40GB Kingston SSD and installed Windows 7. Everything went great until I accidentally hit "Defrag and Optimize" on my Auslogics Defrag tool. I got blue screen, and wouldn't reboot ever again. So I partitioned my 2TB and reinstalled on there. When I went to diagnose what happened, Disk Management, and even Disk Part on Command Prompt say it's now a 2MB hard drive, yes I said MB, not GB. Someone help me please!

EDIT: Guys I did in fact go into disk management, that's where my problem is. According to that, ALL that is there is 2MB, that's it, here's a screenshot.

EDIT 2: Okay now 1MB, dafuq?!?

EDIT 3: I just thought of this, do you think it's possible that the drive was sent into lockdown? It was getting defragged on windows 7 after all. I don't know much about that hence why I adding this idea in there.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Defragmenting will likely shorten the life of an SSD, and serves no real purpose, in fact it's highly recommended to not do it, but it shouldn't instantly ruin it if it accidentally runs. Try using Disk management to delete any existing partitions on the drive and recreate a new partition using the full unallocated space. If it fails to do so, RMA the unit.

 

[Dereck47]

So I partitioned my 2TB and reinstalled on there

Download HDDErase on your 2TB and Secure Erase your SSD.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2084977/hdderase-exe-review-freeware-utility-securely-erases-drives-the-old-fashioned-way.html

A Secure Erase restores any SSD to a blank, fresh-out-of-the-box condition.
After you SE your SSD shut down (not restart) your system for 30 seconds or so; then boot back into Windows, go back into Disk Management, initialize the drive, and see if Windows recognizes the full 40GB.

If it still shows 2MB of capacity then the drive needs to be rma'd.

Here's some additional info from Kingston regarding Secure Erase:
http://www.kingston.com/us/community/articledetail?ArticleId=10

 

[Darkbreeze]

You don't need to do that. No offense Dereck, but if you remove all the existing partitions on the drive, and create a new partition using all of the unallocated space, then as far as actual functionality is concerned, it's the same as starting fresh. It can be done using disk management. No extra programs to install. No further code bloat necessary. Why install another program to do what the system can do on it's own.


http://www.howtogeek.com/101862/how-to-manage-partitions-on-windows-without-downloading-any-other-software/

 

[Dereck47]

Yes, you have a very good point about that.
Just my anal-retentive nature that I would SE the drive to ensure that any Read/Write speeds that were lost (if any) due to defragging would be restored.