OCZ Vertex 2 Issue

Chrisbes · 25 Nov 2011 at 20:33

My mate has a VERTEX 2 drive and its stopped booting, it gets to the LOADING WINDOWS screen where the windows logo morphs onto the screen and then it just sticks at that. I have tried it in my PC and it is not detected at all. Any way this could be sorted?

EDIT: This was after it was turned off at the mains when it froze (I know..)

Chrisbes · 26 Nov 2011 at 13:44

icehot said:
No word of a lie, our media centre did EXACTLY this yesterday with the same SSD. Eyes on this thread!

Ouch. I have tried these things:

Trying the SSD in a different computer to rule out any other hardware faults
Booting in safe mode
Booting off the Windows Disk to try and repair the drive

No no avail.

It is was also very hard to get the drive picked up in my bios and didnt exist in the Windows Repair screen either.

Chrisbes · 26 Nov 2011 at 19:29

Iraklis F.C. said:
when it is plugged in and pc working, check the ssd if possible if you can see a flashing LED in it. report back

Done that, No LEDs on the SSD that i could see (Possibly not lit up?)

Chrisbes · 3 Dec 2011 at 21:13

Turns out the actual drive was faulty, and its a problem with the Vertex 2 series.