krnl Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 I've recently bought an F120 drive. After 2 weeks of usage i opened up my laptops lid and found the drive empty. Tried some partition table recovery tools without any luck. The drive still works, it was possible to create a new partition table and install the OS again. Q1: I was wondering if this problem is firmware related. Is this a known issue, and does the 2.0 firmware solve it, or should i ask for a replacement? I also has no idea how to update the firmware. Intstalled windows 7 ran the update tool but is says "No drives found!". Ahci is enabled. I even tried to connect the drive using an external USB box, in that case the update failed after a few minutes. Q2: Any idea how a normal guy with a laptop on the lap can do this update? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 90% of the time the no drives found error is fixed by right clicking and running as Administrator, despite if your account is an administrative account or not, this was in the installation instructions. Windows 7 is really funky like this. I'm not sure why your F120's partition table was erased but you could definitely try the new firmware 2.0 and after the upgrade I would secure erase before using the drive again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krnl Posted December 4, 2010 Author Share Posted December 4, 2010 Thanks Synbios, you were right, the update worked with elevated rights. I'll report back in a few weeks if i still have my partition table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krnl Posted April 6, 2011 Author Share Posted April 6, 2011 I'm glad to announce that since my last post no further problems occured with my drive, patrition table still present, everything works fine. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 6, 2011 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 6, 2011 NP Thank you for letting us know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krnl Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 After 8 months of flawless operation, it did it again. Partition table and all data is lost. Gonna get replaced it with a different product, data loss isn't fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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