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80Gb ssd is now onley 8Mb

idata — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:50:22 GMT

Hello guys

I got a strange problem. Today i received my SSD and i wanted to instal W7 on it. First i could see the SSd in the bios but not in the windows screen where you can partition the disks.

No i got that problem solved. But the disk is onley 8Mb

My system specs

Asus Crosshair formula 2

AMD Phenom2 x940

if you need more info just ask and i will post it

Regards

Re: 80Gb ssd is now onley 8Mb

idata — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:54:52 GMT

That certainly is a strange problem. Have you tried to format it in Windows 7 as a basic disk? And did you initialize the disk? Is the SSD shown as being online?

Seems like the disk is not formatted correctly.

Re: 80Gb ssd is now onley 8Mb

idata — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:14:00 GMT

i can see the disk in windows but i cant do much with it, i can onley format the 8Mb and make a partition on that piece of the disk

Re: 80Gb ssd is now onley 8Mb

idata — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:15:43 GMT

Have you used HDDErase? HDDErase can screw up your SSD with that 8MB issue. We can get into trying to fix it if you did mess up with HDDErase.

Re: 80Gb ssd is now onley 8Mb

idata — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:31:08 GMT

nope i didnt used annything yet. I ordered a new one today and i think its better to send this one back. unless i can get it to work again

Re: 80Gb ssd is now onley 8Mb

Steve_Lionel — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:27:54 GMT

I have seen this problem reported with other disks, mainly SSDs. It appears to be a failure of the drive's controller. Get it replaced under warranty.

Re: 80Gb ssd is now onley 8Mb

idata — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:10:10 GMT

What firmware version is on the drive?

Re: 80Gb ssd is now onley 8Mb

idata — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:21:01 GMT

Apologies for the problems you are having with your X-25M.

If the problem continues, please RMA the drive for replacment.

FYI: "Intel BootLoader" and a drive size of 8MB typically means that the firmware cannot be found.

Re: 80Gb ssd is now onley 8Mb

idata — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:57:03 GMT

I ordered a new one installed it and it worked. so im gonna RMA the broken one:)

thx for the reply's

Re: 80Gb ssd is now onley 8Mb

idata — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:12:15 GMT

I have an Asus M2npv-vm motherboard running Windows XP Pro and I see exact same issues. The drive is an Kingston SSD 96 GB. I worked with Kingston and the RMA the first device. Without any explanation of what they did, they sent me a new drive. The new drive has the exact same problem I can only see 7.84 MB of the total 96 GB. Did you go with a different vendor than Kingston, such as the Kingston was not working and another vendor 's SSD worked?

Thanks,

Matt

Re: 80Gb ssd is now onley 8Mb

idata — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:25:37 GMT

Hi Matt, I have the same issue. Same motherboard as your Asus M2NPV-VM, with Kingston SSD 30G. The SSD works well in my notebook and install windows 7 without any problem. I wonder if the M2NPV-VM is too old to install an SSD.