F120 no longer detected by bios

[Tec]

Hi.

 

I have a huge problem with my only 3 month old Corsair Force F120.

 

The SSD could not be detected from the bios of my notebook any more. The drive-LED is on all the time, that isn’t normal. The bios shows a message like “Insert a boot device and restart.”

Also the bios from my desktop-computer can’t detect the SSD. (At first the bios stoped. Now the bios do not detect the SSD and is booting normally without detecting the SSD.) I tried both controllers (nVidia and Silicon Image).

And also I can not access the SSD via USB. (In a external drive case connected via USB.)

 

The defect appears when I try to start the Notebook (or also desktop).

I worked with my Notebook (Win7 installed) and put it to hibernation like normal.

After 30 minutes I wanted to restart my Notebook at home to make the Backup of the work and than the “**** happens”. The SSD no longer is detected by the bios.

 

The Notebook is an ASUS V1JP.

There was no problem, no bluescreen, not a hint that the SSD would have a failure before the SSD crashed.

 

I hope you can help me an there is a way to repair the SSD or bring me back my Data on another way.

[rhesuspieces]

This is the same problem I had with my laptop. A warm reboot often fixed the problem in the short term. What I did that seems to finally have fixed this problem was to:

 

1. Upgrade to the latest BIOS

2. Make sure you are in AHCI mode

3. Upgrade the SSD to version 2.0. I used a WinPE bootable USB drive to do the upgrade.

 

4. Download and install Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7

a. Go to Microsoft and download the iso image, make a CD and install

5. Make USB bootable WinPE

a. http://4sysops.com/archives/build-a-bootable-windows-pe-3-0-usb-drive-with-rescue-tools-part-1/

b. http://4sysops.com/archives/create-a-bootable-windows-pe-3-0-usb-drive-with-rescue-tools-part-2/

c. Documentation: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749538(WS.10).aspx

6. Gather third-party tools for USB bootable WinPE

a. PStart a portable Windows launcher

http://4sysops.com/archives/free-pstart-launch-and-search-tools-on-your-usb-stick/

b. Q-Dir a portable Windows Explorer

http://4sysops.com/archives/free-pstart-launch-and-search-tools-on-your-usb-stick/

 

7. Upgrade the IDE/ATA driver to Intel RST 10.1.0.1008

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/

 

Sorry for the questionable organization of this post. This is what I did and I believe all my boot problems are gone. I never had the sleep problems described in this forum.

[Tec]

Hi rhesuspieces,

thank you for your answer.

 

There are some "problems" for me:

 

1. BIOS is the latest

2. BIOS don't show me the option to enable AHCI, I worked in IDE-mode all the time in the last 3 month an it worked fine.

 

I hope I can do all the steps you explained 3. ... 7.

 

I'll try my best to get my data back.

[rhesuspieces]

Nothing you can do at the OS level will help if the BIOS doesn't see the drive.

 

Attach the drive, if the machine doesn't see the drive at boot try a warm restart. That worked for me when my machine didn't see the drive.

 

Once the BIOS can see the drive, try the upgrade of the IDE/ATA driver to the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) 10.1.0.1008.

[Tec]

Hi.

Sadly I had no time since new year to have a look to the SSD. But now I have a little bit.

 

Thank you for your answer rhesuspieces.

 

That was one of my questions I got over the time.

Is it possible to "3. Upgrade the SSD to version 2.0. I used a WinPE bootable USB drive to do the upgrade." i the SSD isn't detected by the bios? I don't think so. Or am I wrong?

[RAM GUY]

If the drive is not detected in BIOS I doubt the update will work, and yes you can try and Windows Live CD to boot the system and run the update.