Is my SSD goosed?

[{SAS}TB]

Hopefully someone can help me out with this (even if it's an RMA) as its frustrating the hell out of me .........

A bit of background - Im building a new (Socket 2011) rig:

3280 SB-E
X79 Sabretooth
32GB Corsair Vengene 1866
Win 7 x64 Pro

And was intending to have 2 M4 128GB SSDs in RAID0 but after numerous attempts at installing Windows I was getting boot to Windows with black screen and just mouse cursor and / or issues where the PC would not restart but needed turning fully off and back on again. Tried in RAID and ACHI settings but had the same issues. After googling it appeared to be a relatively 'common' problem - anyways decided to try on a single non-RAID drive for boot and apps and the second for games so disconnected one drive and installed windows.

All fine with non of the boot or restart issues but ..

Then plugged the second drive in but despite seeing it listed on BIOS it wasn't showing in windows.

Tried "disk part" and it doesn't show in there

Doesn't show in windows explorer but does show in device manager (named as the RAID array it was originally part of) but no options other than drivers and uninstall

Shows in storage manager but when it starts it says it needs to be initialised but when I try (MBR ot GPT) it gives errors and fails

The disc is also showing as 228GB (or thereabouts) which again was its RAID size :|

Sorry for the lengthy post but can anyone help please?

Cheers

 

[stuie]

try reformating it assuming it is fully removed from the raid system

 

[mikeo]

Unless anyone else has a better suggestion (and only my personal opinion).

- Connect your SSD as a secondary drive and perform a Secure Erase. If Crusial does not have a toolbox that supports this, then Parted Magic is your answer here (GOOGLE for a guide if you've never used it EG. http://www.overclock.net/t/1227597/how-to-secure-erase-your-solid-state-drive-ssd-with-parted-magic). If your drive is blocked from having a Secure Erase done on it, then try hot plugging your SSD (IE. disconnect the power cable to it for a few seconds, this usually does the trick).

- Reboot PC and go into Windows disk management and allow it to re-initialise the drive.

Good luck.

 

[{SAS}TB]

Unless anyone else has a better suggestion (and only my personal opinion).

- Connect your SSD as a secondary drive and perform a Secure Erase. If Crusial does not have a toolbox that supports this, then Parted Magic is your answer here (GOOGLE for a guide if you've never used it EG. http://www.overclock.net/t/1227597/how-to-secure-erase-your-solid-state-drive-ssd-with-parted-magic). If your drive is blocked from having a Secure Erase done on it, then try hot plugging your SSD (IE. disconnect the power cable to it for a few seconds, this usually does the trick).

- Reboot PC and go into Windows disk management and allow it to re-initialise the drive.

Good luck.

Thank you sooooooooo much - worked like a dream

Much appreciated - thank you

 

[mikeo]

Thank you sooooooooo much - worked like a dream

Much appreciated - thank you

No problems. Glad you got it sorted.

SSD's... great things when everything goes fine but tricky little blighter's if things go wrong. Not quite as "plug and play" as your good old trusty mechanical drives.

Just thinking about getting a third one myself to put my games on (probably a 256GB). Was going to spend the money on a new graphics card, but decided that on a single monitor at 1080, that I could not see any point!