After reinstall, W7 says my 2nd hard drive is in RAW format..wtf?

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bankster55

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Secure erase doesnt work because no program can actually work on the drive. They all give me varying errors about the drive being locked or inaccessible.

While I have personally never seen an actual dead as a doorknob SSD drive, I'm sure they exist. Did you do any hot plugging when you redid system? If it were my drive, i would try a reflash of firmware. Even running crystal disk on the drive from a booting drive shows inaccessible?

However, I dont mean to drag this thread out forever, and am glad you came back with verdict. Guess thats why the sw I gave you didnt work.

So, you going to RMA to dealer or OCZ? If sent to OCZ at least they could say what exactly happened to your drive. I would really be curious. If I were wealthy, I would buy the drive off you just to investigate.

Heres a relevant thread - the comments too!
http://blogs.computerworld.com/my_new_ssd_died_dare_i_try_another
Heres a guy that saved his drive with live LINUX
http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/showthread.php?38432-Is-the-SSD-in-my-TC1100-completely-dead
Then theres the destructive flash utility
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?84713-Is-my-SSD-deadres