We recently got a new Dell laptop, imaged it to a C300 using Acronis (has latest firmware), replaced the drive, set to AHCI, and had it running fine for a while. Today I was informed that it just crashed. Some BSOD, nothing afterwards. Can't boot from it. Can't do a Windows Repair on it (Windows DVD not recognizing the OS on the drive). There are 4 partitions on it. One is tiny Windows partition, one is Dell's Recovery partition, one is the OS (the one that was originally loaded on it), and the last one is the Data partition.
Connecting the SSD to a separate computer via SATA/eSATA doesn't do even show up. Connecting via USB does show up and the C: partition is accessible, but it says the Data partition is "RAW" and says it needs to be formatted for use, but that partition has data on it. It takes Windows Explorer/Disk Management console forever to even see that last partition. The recovery partition shows up. I'm trying to figure out how to fix this. What do you think it could be? Busted partition table? Something physically wrong with the SSD?
What are my options at this point besides doing a fresh OS install (which will be very time consuming given everything we have on there and is no guarantee that it won't break again given that it might be a hardware issue)? Fortunately the disk based drive I imaged this from is still available (and currently in the laptop), so we're not set TOO far back yet, but it's still a bad situation. Appreciate any heads up! Will provide more info if needed.
EDIT: I'm also having trouble mounting the drive on another system. Now none of the other partitions are accessible either (though they do show up in Explorer), e.g. the drive is there, but there's no %GB free bar and double clicking on it just makes Windows hang.
EDIT2: One thing that I noticed was that once an OS is installed, switching between AHCI and IDE may cause the drive to become unbootable when in the wrong setting. For example, if you take a Win 7 disk based drive that has SATA running in IDE and switch it to AHCI, it won't boot (at least not in my case). I have to switch it back to IDE. The HDD that the SSD was imaged from was ran in IDE, while the SSD was ran in AHCI, but it still worked for a while, so I'm not sure if that was a factor.
Connecting the SSD to a separate computer via SATA/eSATA doesn't do even show up. Connecting via USB does show up and the C: partition is accessible, but it says the Data partition is "RAW" and says it needs to be formatted for use, but that partition has data on it. It takes Windows Explorer/Disk Management console forever to even see that last partition. The recovery partition shows up. I'm trying to figure out how to fix this. What do you think it could be? Busted partition table? Something physically wrong with the SSD?
What are my options at this point besides doing a fresh OS install (which will be very time consuming given everything we have on there and is no guarantee that it won't break again given that it might be a hardware issue)? Fortunately the disk based drive I imaged this from is still available (and currently in the laptop), so we're not set TOO far back yet, but it's still a bad situation. Appreciate any heads up! Will provide more info if needed.
EDIT: I'm also having trouble mounting the drive on another system. Now none of the other partitions are accessible either (though they do show up in Explorer), e.g. the drive is there, but there's no %GB free bar and double clicking on it just makes Windows hang.
EDIT2: One thing that I noticed was that once an OS is installed, switching between AHCI and IDE may cause the drive to become unbootable when in the wrong setting. For example, if you take a Win 7 disk based drive that has SATA running in IDE and switch it to AHCI, it won't boot (at least not in my case). I have to switch it back to IDE. The HDD that the SSD was imaged from was ran in IDE, while the SSD was ran in AHCI, but it still worked for a while, so I'm not sure if that was a factor.
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