P128 Corrupt Boot Config Data

[B_Will]

Sorry for the long story but I figure it may help knowing:

 

I've had the Corsair P128 SSD for 2 or 3 months and have been loving it.

 

This morning I booted up the computer and before the OS selection screen came up (at my motherboard screen) the video monitor had artifacts all over the screen. I booted into Win 7 which is on the SSD and it came up fine but with the same artifacts.

 

The video card seems to be bad. I tried the card in another system and the same artifacts appeared. I put an older video card I had in the SSD system and it worked fine, no artifacts.

 

Problem is the SSD won't boot to Win 7 now. I tried the Win 7 install disk to repair it but it doesn't fix the problem. The drive shows up in the repair list but states 0MB. I tried using the Command prompt: BCDBOOT but it's not recognizing a partition drive letter assignment. I booted into Vista and the drive doesn't show in My Computer. I checked the hard drive list in the bios but it does show there. I'm not sure what to try next.

 

I've got critical work related data on that drive and I hope that someone may know a fix to get the drive up and running.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[RAM GUY]

I would suggest getting the Data that you need off of the drive then format the drive and re-install the O.S. or if you have a back up or can restore it to a previous time might be another solution.

[B_Will]

Thank you for the reply.

 

I tried restore to previous but no dice.

 

Any suggestions on how to retrieve the data from the drive? I can't see the drive when I boot into Vista or WinXP.

[RAM GUY]

I have not tried any Data recovery programs with Windows 7 at this time so there is not a lot I can suggest other than you might search for an application at http://www.snapfiles.com and see if you have any luck getting the data off you need then you can format it.