Corsair Force F80 completely lost partition

[IanJackson]

Hi Guys

 

I'm, on my tenth SSD (four of them Corsair) and know my way around them - indeed I wrote one of the stickies in this thread - but with my new Force F80 I am stumped.

 

I used it for 2 days without issue in my Dell M1210 laptop and closed the lid as normal when done. Today I have started the laptop up and the partition has completely vanished, it is as if the drive is fresh from the factory. I plugged the drive into a desktop system using an X58 and it showed up with an unallocated space, exactly if all data has been erased. Is this a known issue with these drives and some notebook chipsets?

 

Assistance from either Corsair techs or other learned users would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Ian

[Synbios]

I haven't heard about this issue with this drive but if the drive shows up as unallocated it may have just lost its partition table somehow, I would certainly go in with file recovery tools and try to get your files out first.

[IanJackson]

Hi Synbios

 

Thanks for the reply, have you got any recommendations for such tools? I would like to get my data off if possible.

 

Thanks a lot

 

Ian

[Synbios]

UBCD4WIN has a bunch of data recovery tools built in, it's worth a try. It also has partition table repair tools, but I would only try those if the data recovery tools are unsuccessful.

 

There's a chance you already lost your data and if this is the case I'm sorry. But I just noticed you only used it for 2 days, I can't imagine you have very much on it. Have you updated to firmware 2.0?