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Question

Possible ssd boot drive failure!!!

by Kwjamesblond Mar 16, 2015 3:28AM PDT

My computer has been getting blue screens of death every time I turn on my PC and I think my ssd boot drive has failed. The symptoms are the bsod gives the error bad pool header and I tried to repair install windows today but my ssd said the drive was locked I did some command prompt stuff too (some bootrec commands) and my ssd boot drive did not show up. I'm guessing that my drive is corrupt and needs to be replaced. I'm just wondering if this logic is good and there is not something else that could be wrong with it. The motherboard and cpu I got in December of 09 so I hope it's still usable till the new Intel processors come out.
-Thanks

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Clarification Request

Given no makes or models?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Mar 16, 2015 4:06AM PDT

I guess we could try cloning this SSD to another drive. Most drives come with or have access to drive clone tools that work better than Windows at access.

There's also bootable Linux media to look over drives but your post is missing detail.
Bob

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Clarification

by Kwjamesblond Mar 16, 2015 5:31AM PDT

Im using an asus p7p55 ws supercomputer motherboard with a i5 and the ssd is a Intel 120 gb.
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Seems tame enough.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Mar 16, 2015 5:40AM PDT

Troubleshooting hasn't changed much. Boot CDs with other OSes, swapping suspect parts is the norm,

Drives do fail, just like HDDs only harder.
http://forums.evga.com/My-Intel-520-120gb-ssd-failed-m2124536.aspx
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/data-recovered-failed-ssd/
"SSD drives don't appear to be much more reliable than mechanical hard drives (for their first few years of life, at least) and they also are difficult and expensive to recover data from."

If you have nothing to lose, try Intel's firmware update. I've seen it bring back a few dead ones.
Bob

PS. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/18363/Intel-Solid-State-Drive-Firmware-Update-Tool may apply but I don't see your exact models.