https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/brand-new-x-25m-80gb-not-recognised/m-p/20234#M8347 <P>Purchased an X-25M 80GB on sale (mail-in rebate).</P><P> It has "G2" in its model number.</P><P>It has Firmware 02M3 (the latest according to Intel firmware download page).</P><P>It's new not refurbished.</P><P>Installed today as second SSD in my PC. Primary SSD (with Win 7 64-bit working perfectly) is a Kingston 96GB, also a SATA II model.</P><P>Motherboard is a 5 year-old ECS G31T-M v1.0 with up-to-date BIOS.</P><P>On first boot attempt POST hung for about 15 seconds then reported the X25-M as "Secondary Master is a corrupted drive".</P><P>PC booted up to desktop but X25-M does not appear in Device Manager nor in Disk Management window (not even as "Unallocated space").</P><P>Shut down, swapped power cable &amp; data cables from the primary drive but X25-M still hangs during boot and is not recognised at all.</P><P>Shut down, tried remaining SATA ports one at a time, no improvement.</P><P></P><P>Can anyone suggest a reliable fix for this problem? Or, is this drive a useless brick?</P><P></P><P>Thanks for any help you can provide !</P><P>corrupt</P> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 05:24:11 GMT idata 2012-11-07T05:24:11Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/brand-new-x-25m-80gb-not-recognised/m-p/20234#M8347 <P>Purchased an X-25M 80GB on sale (mail-in rebate).</P><P> It has "G2" in its model number.</P><P>It has Firmware 02M3 (the latest according to Intel firmware download page).</P><P>It's new not refurbished.</P><P>Installed today as second SSD in my PC. Primary SSD (with Win 7 64-bit working perfectly) is a Kingston 96GB, also a SATA II model.</P><P>Motherboard is a 5 year-old ECS G31T-M v1.0 with up-to-date BIOS.</P><P>On first boot attempt POST hung for about 15 seconds then reported the X25-M as "Secondary Master is a corrupted drive".</P><P>PC booted up to desktop but X25-M does not appear in Device Manager nor in Disk Management window (not even as "Unallocated space").</P><P>Shut down, swapped power cable &amp; data cables from the primary drive but X25-M still hangs during boot and is not recognised at all.</P><P>Shut down, tried remaining SATA ports one at a time, no improvement.</P><P></P><P>Can anyone suggest a reliable fix for this problem? Or, is this drive a useless brick?</P><P></P><P>Thanks for any help you can provide !</P><P>corrupt</P> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 05:24:11 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/brand-new-x-25m-80gb-not-recognised/m-p/20234#M8347 idata 2012-11-07T05:24:11Z