evecool Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Hello Tech Support. About 1 year ago i got my 32GB Corsair Nova SSD and used it solely for System Drive - Windows 7 x86 and some programs since then. I started experiencing some strange issues about 1 month ago when the computer did not want to wake up from sleep mode so i turned that one off. About a week ago i started getting BSOD, corrupted NTFS fixed by chkdsk upon boot and system hangs so I decided it is time to Secure Wipe and reinstall Windows. I used my one 160GB Maxtor HDD as boot drive with freshly installed Windows 7 x86 to boot up and installed the Corsair SSD Toolbox. The SSD was on sATA 2. Removed all other disks and disabled RAID 1. I noticed FW 2.1 and checked for update - tool said none available. So i decided it is with the latest. Used the toolbox to secure wipe and it went OK without any errors. Rebooted PC. Now here is where the problem started - when I try to initialize the disk MBR via Windows Disk management it goes trough, but when I try to create partition Disk management hangs and SSD disappears. When I reboot the disk is back in. I've tried via DISKPART under windows installation. I can perform "clean", but as soon as I "enter" = create partition primary align=1024 it stays like that for 1 min and pops error ( drive has disappeared ). Tried using PartMagic Linux env Partition management and got the same result. Then I tried the legacy Corsair_FieldUpdater_v1.1 but it is not detecting any drive. And I am stuck now :) If you require some additional info / tests / screenshots let me know. Thank you in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evecool Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 UPDATE: I've tried PartedMagic Secure Erase and TestDisk - Advanced scan FS=none Here are the results are in the results: Putting system to Sleep -> Wake up = no go Read error !#%#$! WTF ?!? I know that TestDisk can not be trusted in "NONE" scan but at least it can access the drive cylinders array Again attempting to create MBR / Partition resulted in disk disappearance (going offline - maybe) Where to now ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Have you tried a different SATA data cable and motherboard port? Try the SSD on another computer or an SSD enclosure and see if you can a partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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