SSD maybe dead?

[Jose Luis Lopes]

Hi guys

So I have a Asus N56VB that I use for college and I bought yesterday a SSD for it, a 250gb crucial BX100.
Installed it on the laptop with no problems, installed win10 and ubunto on dual boot mode, and everything was fine, rebooted a couple times yerterday between the 2 OS's and everything was fine.
Today when I woke up, booted up the laptop and it didn't recognize the SSD, so toubleshooting time
Changed back to the HDD, and it booted, changed back to the SSD and surprisingly it booted just fine to windows without asking me if I wanted ubunto or windows...
Went to the disk management tool of windows and it shows the ubunto partition is... EMPTY?!?!
Rebooted the laptop and the SSD stopped showing again on the boot devices....
Is the SSD dead or did I do something wrong when installing ubunto?
I reconnected the SSD again and it booted again to windows again, but it seems I need to disconnect and connect the SSD everytime I want to boot the laptop

Any advice?

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, Jose!

It sounds like something might have went wrong with the dual-boot. Would you please post a screenshot of what you see about the drive and its partitions in Disk Management? Perhaps this might be fixed by reformatting the Ubuntu partition or by making a fresh install of Windows.
It doesn't sound like the SSD is done for. But if you're worried, you might want to try it out with a different computer and run a diagnostic tool to test it and see if anything unusual pops-up.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how it goes.
Boogieman_WD

 

[Jose Luis Lopes]

Here are the disk management screenshot:
https://gyazo.com/9dd6bca3d11d5a12816e5e5ff1737d78
The 46gb partition was where the ubunto was, it says it is completely empty, I'm positive ubunto was there last night up and running...

Also I download crystal disk info and for some reason the health status is "unknown" but the values seems alright
https://gyazo.com/a8e96fe43b482f60cd00210daf7b78c9

I'm thinking about just completely wiping the drive and trying again

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Well, everything seems to be in order. I really can't tell what has happened, but at least the SSD seems to be working fine.
You could check out this article: http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2014/05/install-ubuntu-1404-alongside-windows.html. It might prove useful.

 

[Jose Luis Lopes]

The situation has evolved...

As I said I wiped and installed windows, and only windows without partitioning the SSD
Tried to reboot, shutdown and boot, sleep, hibernate, everything seemed to be fine
Started to install software and etc and then I remembered, lets try to make the laptop run out of power, took out the power plug and the battery, and... the problem is here, the laptop no longer recognizes the freaking SSD, the BIOS says the SATA port is empty, took out, put back in the SSD and it is recognized again and boots like nothing ever happened.
Is there some BIOS setting I should be turning on or off? or windows setting for that matter?

 

[Boogieman_WD]

I don't think that you should be experiencing that type of issue no matter the settings you've selected. Having in mind the SSD "comes and goes" this might be a different problem. However I'd try resetting/updating the BIOS/UEFI if I were you, to see if that fixes the issue. You could also make sure that you have the latest drivers for your SATA controller as well as the latest available firmware for the SSD.

 

[Jose Luis Lopes]

Just an update if someone is interested or had a similiar problem, I contacted crucial support on their live chat and after checking that all drivers and dirmeware were up to date I returned the SSD and bought a 850EVO for the same price, the problem is gone, dual booting as I origninally intended and already tried every way and form of restarting the computer and eveything is fine. My guess is that the controller and the computer must have some kind of incompatibility or the controller requires some type of functionality that my laptop doesn't have. Either way, the 850 EVO is working as intended now so problem solved