PNY SSD no longer works with PC

[nickanthony]

Hello,

I'm new to these forums and probably don't have as much experience with many of you around here with PCs but I built a pretty nice PC a few years back. I bought a 60gb SSD to install windows 7 on and use that as only my boot drive, I installed everything else to an HDD. I recently bought a new 120gb SSD so I can install my games to it because my PC has been slowing down a bit. I had it installed for about a month and installed some games to it and it worked fine.

The other day I finally got sick of my 60gb SSD being so full so I decided to to a clean install of windows. Everything went fine except for having to do 500 updates before it would function properly again. At that point my spare SSD which is my "E" drive appeared to be working. It showed up in my computer and disk management but every time I tried to open it, it would freeze up. I decided to wipe that and start over on that to but after that it has been screwing up my computer in other ways. It wouldn't allow it to shut down by getting stuck on the logging off screen. I tried to partition it again but it froze up during the process and after that disk management wouldn't even open to let me mess with anything.

I finally noticed it was the SSD that was causing the problem when I disconnected it and my computer went back to working 100% normal. Since I couldn't open disk management I tried to do a fresh install of windows onto the questionable SSD to see if that would wipe it and fix the issue. That didn't work. It seemed to install fine but it would never fully complete. It got to letting me choose my PC name and enter product key then the screen went black and never did anything.

Right now I can only assume that my spare SSD is ruined but I cannot figure out how in the world doing a clean install on a separate SSD would destroy another SSD.

 

[nickanthony]

Hi guys. Is there something I should be doing differently? Maybe my post doesn't make any sense? People seem to be pretty active around here but I can't seem to get anyone to help me out on this one.

Any help at all would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[nickanthony]

Day 3 event log: It's getting so lonely in here. I watch and watch and watch yet nobody comes to my aid. I read other posts and watch how fast people help out and yet I still sit waiting and waiting and waiting. What does a fellow computer enthusiasts have to do to get some help around here?

 

[nickanthony]

So now I'm even more confused. I hooked it up to my backup PC that I use for videos on my TV and it works fine.

 

[nickanthony]

Day 13: It's getting pretty dry out here. I feel like I haven't had food or water for weeks now. *cough cough* I must find a way to keep trucking on. Maybe someday someone will read my post and rescue me from this hell hole 🙁

Anyways, I guess I'm still waiting to see what anyone has to say about this. I finally got my PC back up and running after 3 days of recovering what this drive destroyed and I'm honestly to afraid to try connecting it again. Hopefully someone will have some insight on this matter.

Thanks,

 

[nickanthony]

Day 22: can't believe i can't even get one single response. Kinda depressing to be honest. Not much of a community.

Thanks all.

 

[ArtPog]

Probably the reason you haven't gotten any responses to the problem you described is because it's really next to impossible to diagnose the cause from this distance let alone its resolution, the point being that there are a veritable multitude of reasons causing the kind of problem you describe.

Since you built the PC you obviously have some familiarity with its various components. That being the case my suggestion is to start at the very beginning to determine the possible cause(s) of your problem, to wit...

Get inside your desktop computer case (after disconnecting the A/C plug from your wall socket) and determine that the memory & graphics card are properly seated and all connections are appear secure. Remove (disconnect) all peripheral devices including your HDD/SSDs, optical drive(s), sound card, etc. Disconnect all other storage devices, printers, and other devices connected to the machine.

So that all you'll be working with is your motherboard, processor, heat sink, RAM, graphics card, power supply, keyboard & mouse. Better yet, assuming your motherboard has onboard graphics capability, disconnect your graphics/video card from the system. Just ensure that in case there is a BIOS setting for onboard graphics display the BIOS setting is enabled.

Reconnect your A/C cord and power on the system.

What happens? Do you get a "normal" screen display? No error messages or strange notations?

Can you access your BIOS without any difficulty at this point and review the CMOS-BIOS settings? Check the hardware monitor/PC Health in the BIOS to determine that all temps are within normal range?

Assuming all is well at this point leave the system powered on for the next hour or so, checking to see if anything untoward shows up.

Using your reset button, try powering down & up a few times to determine if there are any problems there.

Now you can install your graphics card if you have one.

Should all appear well at this point this is an indication that there's nothing wrong with the basic components of your system. While not absolutely definitive that this is so, it's a very strong indication that something else is amiss.

Check out the SSD with the disk's diagnostic utility available from the from the disk's manufacturer. If it checks out OK, make certain it's properly connected & configured to its motherboard's SATA port. Try changing the connector and the disk's data cable should there be a problem booting to the disk or the system not detecting it.

All this, of course, is to rule out (to at least some degree) that the problem is not hardware-related.