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Friendly reminder : backup your ssd NOW.
...this is just a general message for anyone scrolling through this thread.
Friendly reminder : backup your ssd NOW.
...this is just a general message for anyone scrolling through this thread.
I have one last suggestion for you, this has effected me personally and two of my friends.
Go out, and spend the few extra dollars to make sure you have a sata III rated cable on the drive. Many of these drives come with fancy looking cables but some of them are not actually rated.
Well, the good thing is that you can get it replaced - it'll be under warranty. If you can't get it to power up and be recognized, then your data can't be recovered.
I had a similar problem the other day witn an OCZ Vertex. It worked perfectly and when I rebooted it was dead. I stuck it into an enclosure and attached it to another system. When checking in Disk Management, the partition was RAW. That was the end of it. We RMAd it.
Hey guys, good news! A power cycle fixed my issue, i recovered everything plus i don't have to deal with RMA!!!
Power Cycle: Turn on the SSD for 20 minutes, and shut it down for 30 seconds, repeat three times.
I'm recently new to SSDs but....
The latest firmware which fixes a major bug for Crucial M4s as mentioned is the recently released 0309 not the 009 which yours was shipped with. Follow the Crucial instructions carefully to upgrade and don't use the Marvel ports but the first Intel Sata 3 (6Gb/s) port.
Here is a link for the 0309 FW http://www.storagereview.com/crucial_m4_0309_firmware_update_5200_hour_bug_released