Intel x-25m, stopped booting but can access it as a 2nd drive

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As the title. I've been using my X-25m for about a year with a win7 x64 install just fine. Tonight all of a sudden my pc dies & tries to restart but it now won't boot into windows :(. It gets to the 'verifying DMA data' part of the boot sequence & then it hangs, I can't even boot into safe mode.

However, I can still access the SSD as a 2nd drive as I have an old WD Raptor which still has a windows install on it. The x-25 checks out fine with the intel SSD toolbox.

So a duff drive or ahci thingy :confused:
 
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exactly the same thing happened to me last sunday. I'm still at a loss. my boot sector will still not allow me to edit it properly even when using bcd edit. even though i have reinstalled windows i actually have to have a bootable disk in the drive and wait for it to time out before windows will boot otherwise it tries time and time again to repair windows unsuccessfully.

bizarre
 
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I'm sorry to hear about your problems, particularly as I have an X25 M running here. Having seen all the posts about OCZ and Corsair drives falling over I was hoping that by buying the Intel I had escaped such problems. It seems I might have been a bit premature given that it's taken yours a year before it died. Is yours a Gen. 1? and do we think this could be firmware related as it appears to be with the Sandforce controllers?

Is there any make of SSD out there that is reliable?
 
my drive has not failed. it has just demonstrated this bizarre problem. the op can still access his drive and, if the issue is llike mine, will be able to reinstall.

the real issue is why it happened as i'm clueless. there was absolutely no warning/issues whatsoever.

its an 80gb G2 btw
 
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Something similar happened to me on my two after a (supposedly non-destructive) firmware upgrade. At the time I thought that was the issue, but this thread makes me think it was coincidental. The 100MB windows boot partition was fine but the data one had gone walkabouts. Windows repair failed to fix and after a few attempts one of the drives dropped out of the array. I managed to recover all the data but situation was made more complicated by them being in Raid 0. After that I secure erased, clean installed Windows7 and they've been running fine for months.

I learnt my lesson well though, got nightly Acronis backups to my NAS now, if anything goes wrong I can be back up and running in 15 minutes.
 
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Mine is a gen 2 I believe, the 34nm version + latest firmware. It was working fine under AHCI until the sudden shutdown/failed reboot. It's still showing up in the detected drives list as my pc is attempting to start up & it shows up on the bios screen. It looks like I will have to try to reinstall the OS on it, the intel toolbox has the secure erase tool??.

I have a few things to backup off the old drive first, thanks for the replys etc, I'll post later if I can get it working again ;)
 
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Right, I've reinstalled a HD image file I had on my external HD & everything is now hunky-dory!?!. I'm posting this from my fresh ssd install so the controller/drive itself must be o.k.?.


Superficial said:
the real issue is why it happened as i'm clueless. there was absolutely no warning/issues whatsoever.

its an 80gb G2 btw
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:eek::eek: !!

yep, exactly how I feel about things. Same drive too, 80gb G2
 
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