SSD problems

the_broken · 24 Sep 2011 at 21:22

recently built a new PC and installed win7, used it for ~2weekswithout a problem, havent stress tested or anything

couple of days i go i was using it, went downstairs for a cuppa came back up and had a black screen with boot manager missing. wasnt too bothered seen this before so decided to reinstall win7

just reinstalled it and was putting drivers, programs and updates on when i had an error message come up when i tried restarting

anyway i restated and it came up again boot manager missing [didnt take notice of the error message as skype error came up so assumed it was that]

i just put the win7 disk back in and the SSD is not there at all, not in the bios either

anyone have ideas on how to fix this or is this SSD broke

its a Corsair Force GT 120GB

the_broken · 25 Sep 2011 at 20:50

should i return this drive as broke then ?

the_broken · 26 Sep 2011 at 02:41

would i be better off getting this one instead?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-009-CR

or maybe alittle more and get this

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-010-CR

the_broken · 26 Sep 2011 at 17:16

sending it back, but got a sandybridge z68 asus maximus 4 extreme board

the_broken · 26 Sep 2011 at 18:00

was going to go for the m4 256gb as i do computer forensics so will have a lot of programs with that and its a gaming machine

the_broken · 26 Sep 2011 at 18:05

was going to update the FW straight away so long as it is an older version

*EDIT*

is a raid pack worth it, have the OS/programs stored on one and games on another if u take them out of raid mode? so if one goes u dont lose everything?

the_broken · 26 Sep 2011 at 18:22

ok thanks for the advice, will order them now, wasnt sure if they were set up in RAID on the drives themselves