Intel SSD 320 160GB dead?

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Hi,

I bought this SSD about 1 week ago and did nothing special with it. I installed Win7 x64 as OS, set ATA Password in the BIOS and switched from IDE to AHCI because Benchmarks were a little bit slow. I think I booted the whole system about 5 times. Now, after 3 days working with Vista on my HDD - I wanted to quickly look up something on the Internet. So I wanted to boot from the SSD - but Vista booted again... After checking everything, the situation right now looks like this:

- No S.M.A.R.T Data, just this in the serial number (behind the drive name): INTEL SSDSA2CW160G3 (BAD_CTX 00000166)

- The Intel Rapid Storage Tool reports drive status: Normal (haha )

- Windows regocnizes the drive as unknown device: with 8 MB space

I am very disappointed that this had happen to me after a week. Is there any way to solve this problem?

/Shiek

My Laptop:

Asus R1E

South Bridge: Intel 82801HBM ICH8M

North Bridge: Intel Crestline-GM GM965

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Had the same problem. SSD 320 120 Gig, bought it to installa new W7 offit. Shortly after install shows as 8 Meg (!!!)

What worked for me was using autility called HDAT2; you prepare am ISO with that and boot off that. There's a number of choices. The one you need is removing the HPA, Host protected Area, and then set it back to factory default

Now I see 120 G again and the tests run fine.

BIOS also sees it fine.

HAven't re installed W7 yet thiugh

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I just discovered this thread.

Looks like you're experiencing the same problem mentioned in this post?

http://communities.intel.com/thread/22227?tstart=0 http://communities.intel.com/thread/22227?tstart=0

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Yes - I think so.

My new SSD 320 160GB is still working. But I don't use the drive much, because I fear that it will go broke again.

I hope Intel will release the new firmware soon...

/Shiek

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http://www.starbike.com/index.php?cat=parts&lang=en Goose schrieb:

I just discovered this thread.

Looks like you're experiencing the same problem mentioned in this post?

/thread/22227?tstart=0 http://communities.intel.com/thread/22227?tstart=0

Thank you very much, useful forum thread! Cheers