My SSD is dead ?

[idata]

Hiya

since latest months of 2009 i've runned on my desktop an INTEL SSD X25M-G2 80 Gb..until now...

Yesterday suddenly without any bad advise my Windows 7 prof 64 won't start anymore...

Booting from my secondary HD with Vista 32 i can see the SSD but it is empty and only 8 MB are recognized over 80 GB !!!! I've tried many ways and many recovery software but i cannot still see my 80 GB's...

SSD has worked regularly every day and optimized every week with toolbox....

Someone can help me ?

Thanks in advance and happy new 2011 to all !!

[idata]

I would try a secure erase and if that did not work I'd send it back for RMA. I'd put your chances of getting data back (before the secure erase) as zero.

[idata]

Thanks for answer !

No prob for data...can you tell me what is best software for secure erase and how to run it ?

Thanks again

[idata]

You need to run HDDERASE, which operates in DOS. If you don't have a floppy drive (who does nowadays) you will need to make a bootable disk. If you search this forum there is a thread that explains how to do this. A bit of help can also be found here: http://www.techblo.gg/?p=88 http://www.techblo.gg/?p=88

The Toolbox also runs a secure erase command. If you can plug the drive into another system you might find that easier to do.

From what you describe it sounds like a controller failure, but a secure erase if worth a shot.

[idata]

Many thanks REDUX..

now i try secure erase