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Dead SSD and recovery image is no good

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zuffy

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Yesterday I was installing a Buffalo USB 3.0 card. Very simple install that took less than 3 minutes. When I power on my PC, my OS is gone. Don't know if it was a coincident that it happen after I install the USB card or not since the last time the PC was operational was 24 hours ago from the install.

Anyway, my Intel 160GB G2 is dead. I tried to restore with the Acronis image I had from back in 6/19. It can't write to it. Then I tried to install Windows 7 after creating a fresh partition. Still can't write to it. I am pretty sure it is dead. The crazy thing is I have only about 2TB written to it.

Now, I restored the Acronis image to my VelioRaptor hoping this will be a temp solution until I get a SSD replacement. Well, Windows 7 boot and seem like when the gui is about to show up, it reboot itself.

Good thing this is not my main PC but it is my HTPC / download PC.
 
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I always have it in AHCI so it's not accidently switching over to IDE that is causing the reboot. Must be something else. I didn't have time to play with the SSD but now at work, I have the SSD in a external case and I can format and write to it with no problem. I got to try it again with no other drives attached at home.
 
When you restored to the Velociraptor and it rebooted, it probably did so because of the USB 3.0 card. It's probably too late, but did you try removing the USB 3.0 card and then restoring? How about putting the Intel SSD into another computer and running the Intel Toolbox to see if it's still ok.
 
zuffy said:
I always have it in AHCI so it's not accidently switching over to IDE that is causing the reboot.
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Switching from AHCI to IDE does not cause it to blue screen on load. Switching from IDE to AHCI does.
This is because installing windows with AHCI installs both IDE and AHCI drivers.
Installing windows in IDE installs IDE drivers and disables AHCI.

I HAVE seen a windows installation (once) that was made with AHCI become IDE only under conditions similar to yours, that is, they somehow had AHCI driver become disabled and would only boot in IDE mode.
 
OK, IDE mode worked for the VelociRaptor. Base on the registry, iastor and msahci are enabled so not sure why it would not work in AHCI mode for the spindle drive but does for the SSD. It's painfully slow to go back to spindle.

I used the Acronis DriveCleaner tool to wipe the Intel SSD. I was able to restore the 6/19 image. Did all the updates and ready to do a full backup. About 65% done, it bluescreen. After that, it would not boot into Windows again. Tried another restore and it would error out about writing to some sectors. At this point, I think something is definitely wrong with the SSD.
 
This is why I love the company's outsourced desktop support company. I got an Intel 320 160GB as a replacement for my X25-M.

Now hopefully I will not experience the problems I am having like last night.
 
I can go thru the Intel RMA but that will take time. The company I work in has an outsourced desktop support. I can go thru them to get replacement since it was purchased via them anyway. I put in the request yesterday and today I got a new SSD and a newer model to boot. Now that is service.
 
Tried the Acronis recovery and I was getting error writing to sector 1 on the new SSD. So I went into the BIOS and loaded the optimized default. No OC, IDE mode and then ran the recovery. Recovery completed without a hiccup. Went back to my OC setting with AHCI and OS started with no problem. Updates everything and did a full backup. Everything is back to normal now.
 
zuffy said:
OK, IDE mode worked for the VelociRaptor. Base on the registry, iastor and msahci are enabled so not sure why it would not work in AHCI mode for the spindle drive but does for the SSD. It's painfully slow to go back to spindle.

I used the Acronis DriveCleaner tool to wipe the Intel SSD. I was able to restore the 6/19 image. Did all the updates and ready to do a full backup. About 65% done, it bluescreen. After that, it would not boot into Windows again. Tried another restore and it would error out about writing to some sectors. At this point, I think something is definitely wrong with the SSD.
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i think something is wrong with your image / windows install.
IIRC when I had such an issue I simply pulled out the windows CD and did a clean install on the SSD in AHCI mode and it worked again... At least, if I remember correctly, maybe it was a mobo issue though, its been some time.

Try moving the SSD to a different port on the mobo.
Then try a clean windows install.
If it doesn't work then RMA the SSD.

EDIT: Wait, have you updated the firmware on the intel?
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18363
 
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