SSD Failing?

Hammer2001

Hammer2001

Hammer2001

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I purchased a Crucial M225 128GB SSD in October 2009. I'm running firmware 1916

Everything has been fine until about a month ago when I noticed some disk errors being reported on boot up. Chkdsk would run automatically and fix the problems and Win7 would boot and everything ran fine.

Then a couple of weeks ago Win 7 failed to boot and chkdsk would find no errors and the automatic windows repair was unsuccessful.

Fortunately I had back up images of the SSD which contains the operating system and applications, so I simply did a clean format and re-imaged the drive and all was fine.

Now a couple of weeks later when booting tonight I got another disk error. Chkdsk ran and fixed some corrupt files. Windows has booted ok and all seems fine.

But I'm sure before long Windows will fail to boot again as before.

Does this mean my SSD is failing. I've owned it for about 2.5 years, is that all I can expect them to last?

It wasn't a cheap purchase and although I love the speeds I'm not sure whether to buy a replacement if they don't have long term reliability.
 
It has a 5 year warranty, give their customer support a ring. If its faulty they will replace it with an M4. I've just done it myself.
 
Contacted customer support and they advised to update the firmware to 2030.

So downloaded the firmware, burnt the ISO to CD.

Set bios to IDE mode as instructed, and booted from CD.

Followed the update procedure, selecting the Crucial M225 when prompted.

Got a messeage very quickly (a matter of seconds) that update was complete and to reboot.

So rebooted PC and........ disaster!

Now the M225 is not recognised by the PC at all.

Am able to boot off an old hard drive with an identical windows image on it to the SSD, so am back up and running, but soooooooo slowly!!

But the SSD is not seen either in the BIOS or within windows at all even though it is connected.

What can I do now? Is the SSD now bricked?
 
Doh! Why didn't I think of that! :rolleyes:

As they are closed weekends, I thought people on here might have some useful advice, or maybe experienced a similar issue, in the meantime.
 
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