sabarret Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 I believe the drive just gave up the ghost. I was reading news yesterday morning, and everything just stopped. I rebooted, and although the BIOS sees the drive, I can't get into Windows. I've tried windows recover options, but nothing will get started. Here is the specs: Drive 1: Corsair Force CSSD-F120GB2 Drive 2: WD Black 1TB 8GB mem - PC2-800 Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H Windows 8 on SSD, data on 1tb I don't get any error messages, as it just halts loading windows on a black screen, no text, no windows icons, no nothing. I've tried safe mode, I've tried the system recover, the system restore, the disc scans, and nothing shows up past 4% system recovery. Have I missed a Corsair drive utility somewhere? Unless someone has a brilliant idea, I'm going to pull the drive and put it into another system to do a quick scan for any data files I may have misplaced and RMA this. Thanks, Scott Barrett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Technobeard Posted February 10, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 10, 2013 Putting it into another system and seeing if the BIOS sees the drive would be the next step, correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabarret Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 I can post, and the bios sees the drive. it won't boot though. I can't see data on either system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabarret Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 hhmmm....scratch that. I just rebooted the secondary system (also Windows 8), and now the whole drive is visible, in all its glory. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabarret Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 Oh, and the drive is version 2.0 of firmware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Technobeard Posted February 11, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 11, 2013 I would recommend backing up your data and then updating the firmware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabarret Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 It comes back as no drive found when I run the firmware update package Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Is AHCI enabled? Have you tried a different SATA data cable and motherboard port? Have you tried the MSAHCI drivers instead of the AMD AHCI ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabarret Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 Yes, ahci is enabled. This drive has been in the system for 2 years (almost to the day), working just fine. Then Saturday morning while reading the news, the computer froze. After rebooting, it won't start again. I've tried the drive in two other systems and in both cases, after a reboot or two, it will show up, I can see directories in explorer, then after about 2 minutes total run time, I can't access the drive any more, then the system freezes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 11, 2013 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 11, 2013 I would try and update the firmware on the drive to version 2.4 but if that fails or still has the same issue we can try and replace it under and RMA. Please use the link on the left and request an RMA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabarret Posted February 12, 2013 Author Share Posted February 12, 2013 I tried, but the updater says it can't find any drives. I put in the RMA request and am waiting for the response. Strange... one minute all was fine (or at least appeared so). Next, no boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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