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What to do with a 240 GB Kingston SSD that is no longer detected?
Hi all,
I had a 240 GB Kingston SSD that went silent on my big rig. I tested it on another Win10 PC. I have a SATA/USB adapter and a power supply for SSD. This has permitted me to extract files in the past so I think it is a truth teller. A warm boot failed so a hard boot was required. The 240 GB Kingston SSD was not detected. I was hoping to do a scan disk and repair it. I have done this successfully with uSSD. Should I try this stunt on WinXP where it worked? WinX uses NTFS like all the rest. I could try test it on the big rig. Why would it go silent? Pin problems? Any hope to recover files? Thanks |
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What to do with a 240 GB Kingston SSD that is no longer detected?
Norm Why wrote:
Hi all, I had a 240 GB Kingston SSD that went silent on my big rig. I tested it on another Win10 PC. I have a SATA/USB adapter and a power supply for SSD. This has permitted me to extract files in the past so I think it is a truth teller. A warm boot failed so a hard boot was required. The 240 GB Kingston SSD was not detected. I was hoping to do a scan disk and repair it. I have done this successfully with uSSD. Should I try this stunt on WinXP where it worked? WinX uses NTFS like all the rest. I could try test it on the big rig. Why would it go silent? Pin problems? Any hope to recover files? Thanks Did you do a search on: Kingston-part-number brick and see if brickage is reported elsewhere ? Older parts had more trouble with firmware failures than newer parts. At one point, Intel rewrote some Sandforce firmware because of problems it could see in the code. Substitute the Kingston part number for the Kingston-part-number field. Brickage happens, for example, if the "critical data" section of the SSD is corrupted. And that contains the map from virtual to physical storage location. That's how the controller "unscrambles" what is stored in the Flash chip(s). Unfortunately, you cannot do a "linear scan" of the Flash chip and use the data that way. Owning a chip scanner is not enough. Paul |
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What to do with a 240 GB Kingston SSD that is no longer detected?
Hi all,
I had a 240 GB Kingston SSD that went silent on my big rig. I tested it on another Win10 PC. I have a SATA/USB adapter and a power supply for SSD. This has permitted me to extract files in the past so I think it is a truth teller. A warm boot failed so a hard boot was required. The 240 GB Kingston SSD was not detected. I was hoping to do a scan disk and repair it. I have done this successfully with uSSD. Should I try this stunt on WinXP where it worked? WinX uses NTFS like all the rest. I could try test it on the big rig. Why would it go silent? Pin problems? Any hope to recover files? Thanks Did you do a search on: Kingston-part-number brick and see if brickage is reported elsewhere ? Older parts had more trouble with firmware failures than newer parts. At one point, Intel rewrote some Sandforce firmware because of problems it could see in the code. Substitute the Kingston part number for the Kingston-part-number field. Brickage happens, for example, if the "critical data" section of the SSD is corrupted. And that contains the map from virtual to physical storage location. That's how the controller "unscrambles" what is stored in the Flash chip(s). Unfortunately, you cannot do a "linear scan" of the Flash chip and use the data that way. Owning a chip scanner is not enough. Paul Thanks Paul for the leads. WinXP on my netbook can access files on the bad 240 GB Kingston SSD. DiskInfo says the drive is only 96% whereas 500 GB Samsung is 100%. Failing drive is not even detected by Gigabyte BIOS (nor Safe Mode Win10). I went out and purchased a new Seagate Barracuda 500GB for replacement. Restoring files comes later. |
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