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Rant

ssd drive gone bad

Aug 2, 2016 11:46AM PDT

The following is just a rant.

Last fall, I purchased a new computer, and replaced the harddrive with a new ssd drive. Installed linux on it. Worked great.

A couple of weeks ago, I needed to test something in Win10 on that specific computer so I removed the ssd, reinsert the original harddrive, updated win10 and did the testing of some software. When it was done, removed the harddrive and reinserted the ssd. Did not work!!!! Tried it in another, older and non-uefi Computer, Did not work...dead as a doornail.

had to put the original harddrive back in and installed linux on it - and learn to put up with the slow startup on that computer again.

I never had a harddrive go bad on me and I would have thought the ssd would not go bad this fast since there are no moving parts. wonder if I screwed the screws too tight when mounting the drive Happy oh well...

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You put it in an external case and ...
Aug 2, 2016 5:11PM PDT

see if it show anything? Maybe with "Gparted". If it's an I/O error failure, you let me know when you have a solution.

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as I said, two different computers
Aug 3, 2016 1:19AM PDT

I tried on two different computers so no external case was needed. did boot to linux disk to see if it can see it and, nope. drive is as dead as a door nail. that was why I was ranting.

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What brand is it?
Aug 3, 2016 8:11AM PDT

Maybe I should stay away from that. The one I have issue with is an OCZ Trion 100.

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it is crucial
Aug 3, 2016 8:30AM PDT

It is crucial and I think it has a three year warranty but I think I am going to eat the cost. Too much personal and financial stuff on it. Don't know enough about ssd to know if it would be easily fix by the manufacturer. You cannot trust anyone these days.

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I had some luck with RECUVA.
Aug 3, 2016 5:35PM PDT

After the files were recovered I booted GPARTED to remove all partitions and start over.

The drive is still in service.

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final update
Aug 5, 2016 9:18PM PDT

I did not give up on the drive. It just did not make sense that removing it would kill it. after messing around with it and posting in the crucial forum, I found a way to power cycle it. Though it did not help, it did lead me in another direction. I found I could see the drive in win10 disk management.

When I realized I could still see it in disk management it finally dawn on me that I was totally wrong. I should be able to boot to it. found a utility called boot repair that made it simple to fix the grub. Once booted to a linux boot disk, installed and ran boot repair, finally was able to boot

I really do not know that much about uefi so I could be completely and totally wrong about my conclusion. I get the feeling when I let win10 update, some changes were made to efi and it was no longer in sync with the efi partition on the linux ssd. Because efi partition was on the ssd, I could no longer boot to it on any non-efi computers. That was why I thought the ssd was dead. I hate EFI!!!!!

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(NT) For future reference ...
Aug 10, 2016 2:14PM PDT
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For future reference...
Aug 10, 2016 2:18PM PDT

Most SSDs have free software which will do a "secure erase" of all data on the SSD. The data is not deleted - it's erased by application of a controlled voltage to all memory cells on the drive. I've used this on one Crucial and one Sandisk and in both cases i was unable to recover any data from them when scanning with a couple of different data recovery apps. Oh, and by the way, this Secure erase takes about two to four seconds on an SSD!