Last night my computer began behaving oddly, culminating with a system lockup. After a minute, moments before I was going to hard-reset it, it shut down and booted back up incredibly slowly. When it logged back into Windows, it took over a minute for the desktop icons to appear, before promptly shutting itself down again.
When I booted it back up, the computer went into Disk Checking after the initial Windows 7 splash, where it hung on 0/220k. After a long delay, it began to reel off every sector in the entire hard drive as unreadable. Pretty obvious my drive was dead, right?
Before giving up the ghost entirely and installing a HDD to get a basic OS up and the computer running for the next 24 hours, I unplugged the afflicted SSD, reseated it, and plugged it back in.
It booted up promptly. I let it do a pre-boot Disk Check again, and this time it progressed cleanly and efficiently to a 60 second finish, and booted into Windows without a delay. It ran games, media, and restarted without a problem. I left it running overnight, and it was still happily purring away before I left for work.
Could it just have needed to have the cables reseated more firmly? Am I willing myself to believe my problem is gone, when it's just waiting to fail entirely at some point in the near future?
I'm not hoping for ironclad answers, but I've never heard of a SSD being detected, but unusable, because of a simple mechanical connection, and I'm hoping for a nudge in either direction from my peers here. Could it just have been a loose cable, or should I be buying a replacement drive and Warranty-returning this one?
Thank you for any input!
When I booted it back up, the computer went into Disk Checking after the initial Windows 7 splash, where it hung on 0/220k. After a long delay, it began to reel off every sector in the entire hard drive as unreadable. Pretty obvious my drive was dead, right?
Before giving up the ghost entirely and installing a HDD to get a basic OS up and the computer running for the next 24 hours, I unplugged the afflicted SSD, reseated it, and plugged it back in.
It booted up promptly. I let it do a pre-boot Disk Check again, and this time it progressed cleanly and efficiently to a 60 second finish, and booted into Windows without a delay. It ran games, media, and restarted without a problem. I left it running overnight, and it was still happily purring away before I left for work.
Could it just have needed to have the cables reseated more firmly? Am I willing myself to believe my problem is gone, when it's just waiting to fail entirely at some point in the near future?
I'm not hoping for ironclad answers, but I've never heard of a SSD being detected, but unusable, because of a simple mechanical connection, and I'm hoping for a nudge in either direction from my peers here. Could it just have been a loose cable, or should I be buying a replacement drive and Warranty-returning this one?
Thank you for any input!
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