I was able to use an external USB->SATA converter cable to attach it to another computer, that way I could power-cycle the drive and resume the copy operation where it stopped.ġ For example, logical block mappings used for wear leveling and TRIM. When this happened to me, I had data I wanted to save. On the other hand if it is designed to read and use the existing metadata, the "secure erase" may also fail, in which case you need to RMA the drive to the manufacturer. Using the manufacturer's "secure erase" tool may recover the disk, if it ignores the existing metadata and just rewrites valid metadata from scratch. In my experience, this is actually a far more common mode of SSD failure than actually wearing out the flash memory.
As a result, whenever the bad metadata is accessed, the firmware stops responding and the host controller marks the disk as disconnected. Your SSD has (1) corrupted metadata 1 and (2) a firmware bug 2 in recovering from corrupt metadata. Please let me know if you have any idea what is wrong and how to fix it. I want to fix it and not have to buy a new SSD. I don't have any idea of what exactly is wrong with the SSD at this point other than the partitions seem to be corrupted. The Ubuntu installer is unable to install to the SSD. I also tried to install Ubuntu to the SSD. I also attempted to format it with Ubuntu, the SSD does the same thing, it hangs and then disappears. I tried use diskpart in cmd prompt during the installation to clean the SSD but it hangs when I attempted to select it, then it disappears. I connected the SSD to another windows 7 PC and could see the system reserved partition and the OS partition which had incomplete installation files on it.Įverytime I tried to format the SSD it hangs for a while, then it disappears until I restart. I attempted to start to install over and the SSD no longer showed up for the installation. An error occurred during the installation (I didn't think much of the error at the time, so I don't remember what it was exactly, I think it was something about missing install files). I had windows 7 installed on it and attempted to do a fresh install of windows 7.
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