dead / faulty ssd issue

[mrstrong]

Hi,

 

had a report of pc blue screen and now it is in bios: the ssd is not showing up as a boot option

 

I tried a different sata cable and port on mobo, so took drive out and plugged into

my PC with a usb drive caddy.

 

It comes up in disk management as Disk 2 Unknown Not Initialized (this is what you get with a new ssd ?)

 

has it just died on me (first time for an ssd) or has windows

done something nasty to it ?

[bald_pig]

Sounds dead, definitely if it will not initialise.

[round2it]

i had two of these last week

[Bedders]

I've had this before where the partition format changed. I found a way to rebuild the MBR to get the data off, but it would inevitably happen again. So I scrapped the drive and put a new one in there.

[mrstrong]

thanks, never had an ssd fail before, it was a dead cheap Integral "Performance SSD" https://www.integralmemory.com/

bought quite a few, hopefully not a bad batch, usually use Kingston

think I will just reimage onto a new drive