[SOLVED] Problems with Mushkin SSD, is it dead ?

[UnicornU]

Mushkin SDD(MKNSSDEC120G) probably dead -BIOS sees 120GB, gparted sees 15GB, and nothing can be written to it -anything I can do to fix it ?

I have had it for probably like 5 years or so ...not sure how long these SSD last in general
This one died after a circuit breaker tripped ...that circuit failed a number of times in the past but ...this time the drive died

is there anything I can do to resuscitate it ?

 

[RealBeast]

Do a secure erase (or a diskpart clean all, which does the same thing).

Some motherboards, seems like most now, have a tools tab in the bios that has a secure erase ability. Just be sure to erase the correct drive.

Otherwise you can easily do it in a command prompt window:
diskpart
list disk
select disk n (the bad drive from the results of the list above)
clean all
exit

Then you can reinitialize and format if the drive is recovered.

 

[fzabkar]

Are you seeing 15GB when the drive is in an external enclosure?