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X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:04:27 GMT

I have used this drive for 2 days now in my MacBook Pro (early 2008). Before I installed anything I successfully updated the firmware to the latest release (045C8820) and at last I was very happy with the drive's performance.

Now, after a restart the drive seems to be broken, in system profiler the drive's capacity is 8mb, modell stays INTEL SSDSA2MH160G1GC but now the strange part-> serial is shown as BAD_CTX.

Well, anyone has an idea? Perhaps a way to reset the drive or is it broken?

Of course this happens on saturday, 1 day before my vacation

Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:39:48 GMT

Seems you are not alone, although I think this is rare. Try hdderase. If that does not work try to reflash. Otherswise it looks like an rma.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=83&threadid=2292224 http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=83&threadid=2292224

Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:23:10 GMT

The best solution is to RMA the drive or INTEL will never fix their buggy firmware or hardware. It is possible that one of flash chip is partially or fully dead, but we don't have documentation to read what BAD_CTX means. The same about software tools for intel SSDs - we must use third-party tools to analyze and fix it, thats not good.

Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:59:48 GMT

Ich war jetzt eine Woche im Urlaub und habe die Platte noch einmal angeschlossen.... geht jetzt wieder... nach einen Neustart hatte Sie aber wieder das gleiche Problem, scheint also erst nach Anlaufzeit aufzutreten.

Intel will von einer RMA noch nix wissen, erst nach 30 Tagen kann ich die über die abwickeln (nach Angabe aller Daten wurde mir das nach 20 minuten am Telefon mitgeteilt), jetzt muss ich also über den Händler anfragen... wirklich schade und Zeitaufwendig

Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:26:47 GMT

As I understood you have problems with RMA....

Have you tried to clear the drive with HDDERASE 3.3 ? As posted http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=83&threadid=2292224 http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=83&threadid=2292224

This solution is worked for me.

If you have ANY additional information from Intel please post it here! My drive crashed 4 times (with badblocks) but after erasing (hdderase 3.3) no more crashes, more then 2 month uptime 24h/day 7days/week....

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Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:13:44 GMT

After Intel's support offer: wait until the drive is older than 30 days and we fix it within another 30 days

or contact your dealer for support. I choose to start a RMA at http://hoh.de hoh.de . I did not try to erase the drive with hdderase, since I seems to work without any problem for hours, but after a restart (power-off) it stops again.... wait 2-3 hours.... is works again, until the next restart.

So it is very likely to be a hardware-issue.

Hopefully I will get a working replacement-drive soon 😃

Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:48:08 GMT

This disaster also happened on my X25-m 80gb. as a result i has losed all my data and failed to reuse this disk.

Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:50:16 GMT

Have you returned it to Intel?

I hope somebody from engineering team comments this situation.

The main questions are

1.What BAD_CTX means?

2.Is there way to restore drive capacity?

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Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

sy4 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:25:47 GMT

Looks like your SSD gone bad. Go for RMA while it is still in warranty.

Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:42:00 GMT

Hi @all,

I do have the same problem with the Intel X25-M 160GB on my Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820TG-644G16Mnks.

It occured now 3 times (first time after about one month, 2nd and 3rd in intervals of 3-5 weeks).

The first two times it was just a temporarily problem for a few hours and it was gone after booting ubuntu.

Now the problem lasts already since the the hole day.

Now, I'm trying to contact my dealer at first and ask them for a solution.

Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:10:24 GMT

Would it be possible to explain how we are supposed to flash the ssd drive, I am not a computer expert and I'm sure there are other folks in the forum that can benefit from a detailed procedure on how to revive the dead ssd drives by flashing them.

The utilities you describe do not work with 64 bit win 7 so how are we supposed to fix the issue ????

Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:21:32 GMT

I have the same problem with my INTEL SSDSA2BW160G3L.

Any news why this happens and on how to solve it properly?

How can I make a boot disk with hderase on it?

Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

idata — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:15:30 GMT

There is latest firmware available on Intel website address to this issue, but the data on the drive is not recoverable.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18363 http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18363

Re: X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

RGiff — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:37:25 GMT

Before performing any update READ ME notes this firmware is for E-seires drives ONLY . If you tried to install it you now have desktop paper weight.