SSD X25-M 160GB Clone Operation rendered SSD unusable

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Hi,

I was cloning my standard HDD to my SSD (X25 160GB Gen 1) using Acronis, when power save settings shut the laptop down in mid clone. Since then, I can't get the SSD to register as a valid drive. Is there a way of recovering the drive (flashing an SSD image, etc.)? I'm at a loss as to what to do.

Cheers.

[idata]

Hi Redux - How did you know that your drive was in a 'locked' state?

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I assume to do this, you need to insert the drive within the laptop?

Cheers.

[idata]

That is what it told me in the Raid ROM when I tried to boot. Whilst the drive was in this state I could not boot up with it plugged in. When I hot plugged it after Windows had loaded the drive could not be detected. To be able to secure erase the drive I had to leave it un-plugged until hdderase had loaded past a certain point. Totally weird. I've used Intel drives for a couple of years and this was the 1st time I experienced something like this.

Running a secure erase with hdderase resets the drive back to factory condition.

[idata]

Thanks for explaining. I'll have a go this evening at using HDDErase. Failing that, I'll pop the SSD within the laptop to see if the BIOS can recognise and force a low level format.

Fingers crossed!!