Can SSD behave like mechanic hard drive?

P

paulcheung

Active Member
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148441

I bought this drive September last with Asus laptop, Spend whole night to get installed, and another day to try and try to get Windows 7 on it. It first couldn't installed windows 7 until about six attempts. Then it work wonderfully until last week.

I have few of other laptops so I did park this laptop for about 3 months, I have occassional use it to charge the battery and make sure everything is
working.

Last week I notice it take long to boot, but I was busy so didn't pay much attention to it. last night I turn on it back, windows 7 start the chkdsk procedure. and it recovered a lot of lost sectors and some unrecoverable according to chkdsk. after that I use windows scan disk to check what is wrong it repair some sector and go through.

But now the drive is behave like a mechanis drive on it's edge. It take long to boot and take long to open program and some program even no respond.

Can SSD like that? or I have virus? oh I have just reformat the hard drive last night and reinstall Windows 7. It give me BSOD since yesterday that is why I reformat it.

Any one know any utility that I can use to check the drive?
I still have the original drive in the laptop with dual boot. I start it without any problem. so it is the drive.

Thank you in advance.
 
Sounds like you got a bad drive and may need to RMA it. I would contact Crucial and see if they have some sort of diagnostics scan. Or you may need to update your firmware.
 
I have just chat with a customer service personel at Crucial. here is what he told me to do. but something I don't understand, if anyone of you have done this on a laptop please tell me in plain English so I can try to see if it will work? What I don't understand is what it mean by sit in the bios?
Thank you.

Below is the script.

John : In most cases, your SSD can be returned to normal operating condition by completing a power cycle. The process will take approximately one hour.

We recommend you perform this procedure on a desktop computer because it allows you to only connect the SATA power connection, which improves the odds of the power cycle being successful. However, a USB enclosure with an external power source will also work. Apple and Windows desktop users follow the same steps.

1. Once you have the drive connected and sitting idle, simply power on the computer and wait for 20 minutes. We recommend that you don't use the computer during this process.

2. Power the computer down and disconnect the drive for 30 seconds.

3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 one more time.

4. Reconnect the drive normally, and boot the computer to your operating system.

5. If the latest firmware is has not been updated to your drive, do so. Go to http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx for our firmware updates.

A laptop computer will also work, but you’ll have connect the drive and navigate to the systems BIOS menu. (Please refer to your system manufacture’s documentation on how to access the BIOS.) Allowing the drive to sit in the BIOS will improve the odds that the power cycle will work. For laptops, we don’t recommended using a USB enclosure powered via USB. In addition, Apple laptop users must boot the system to the open firmware.

1. Laptop users will need to be in the BIOS menu, or open firmware as stated above. The computer will need to stay powered for 20 minutes. We recommend you don’t use the laptop during this process.

2. Power the computer down and disconnect the drive for 30 seconds.

3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 one more time.

4. Reconnect the drive normally, and boot the computer to your operating system.

5. If the latest firmware is has not been updated to your drive, do so. Go to http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx for our firmware updates.
 
Thank you.
Hope it work. HDDscan didn't find any problem at all. and it is a big pain to change this ssd as i have to open the whole laptop to gain access to the drive.
 
Just an update in case if any one have the same problem.
After I try all these power cycle it still has problems. I use killdisk wipe the whole drive and format it with windows diskmanagement tools. I copy some movies in there and play without problem.
So I use windows disk management tool to make two partition. one with 5gb and the other with the balance space. I install the windows 7 ultimate to the second partition as I suspect there are some bad sector in the first part of the drive. It installed with out problem. so far so good, hope this will solve the problem.
Thanks
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top