Power cut killed SSD?

nutcase · 10 Feb 2013 at 14:37

Before I pull it out and try and connect it to something else, is it normal for a powercut (in this case, my Dad fitting a light even with the supply cut off tripped the RCD) to kill an SSD? It's a 128GB M4. Rather irritating, as I'm sure you can imagine!

Last backup should have been 2am today so no data lost, but at the moment it looks like I'm going to have to put a temp old drive in

What's the warranty situation in this instance - it was only a power cut, surely it should be able to cope with that?!

teenwolf · 10 Feb 2013 at 14:38

warranty should be fine.

wazza300 · 10 Feb 2013 at 14:51

tried clearing the mb cmos? or leaving the mb battery out? chances are its corrupted the cmos and not detecting the drive?

nutcase · 10 Feb 2013 at 15:07

Hmm, haven't tried that - the drive shows up in the BIOS list, but not in the bootable drives list strangely. Just plugged it into my server to see if it's toast or not...

edit: looks like you may be right, wazza - it works fine in my server. Phew

wazza300 · 10 Feb 2013 at 15:24

nutcase_1uk said:
Hmm, haven't tried that - the drive shows up in the BIOS list, but not in the bootable drives list strangely. Just plugged it into my server to see if it's toast or not...

edit: looks like you may be right, wazza - it works fine in my server. Phew

glad to hear it

,it will usually corrupt the cmos if theres a power cut or a hard bsod

so you have to clear cmos

nutcase · 10 Feb 2013 at 16:30

And I'm back up - took ages to find where to switch to the actual drive in the bios. Things have changed a lot since I last had this kind of issue.