SSD X25-M 80GB with only 8MEGAbytes available

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A few days ago I bought an Acer Aspire Timeline AS3810t-6775 which came with an Intel SSD X25-M 80GB. After 2 days of operation, the HD simply recognizes only 8 megabytes. In the BIOS, Serial Number field is shown BAD_CTX. I wonder if Intel has a fix for this problem. I can not claim warranty as bought in the U.S. but I am in Brazil now.

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http://www.google.ru/search?hl=en&q=BAD_CTX http://www.google.ru/search?hl=en&q=BAD_CTX

https://secure-communities.intel.com/message/50680# 50680 https://secure-communities.intel.com/message/50680# 50680

HDD ERASE 3.2 - http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669&type=expert&pid=6 http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669&type=expert&pid=6

look for link to download

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I thought Acer has international warranty?

try calling Intel for the RMA then....

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Hello everybody. After using the hdderase 3.3, the active HDAT2 kill to try to restore the factory image of my HDD, I have not had success. The problem persists! I came in contact with Intel and told me to look with Acer. I did but Acer has asked me to send the laptop to get the warranty, this is out of the question because I'm in Brazil. Anyway, I hope that some tool from Intel yet to be released to correct this problem. I've changed the HDD from my laptop and everything works perfectly.

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After erasing with hdderase 3.3 did you get you capacity back or not? Or it still "8MEGAbytes available"?

I've used victoria tool also (http://www.google.ru/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&q=victoria+windows&aq=f&oq=victoria+window http://www.google.ru/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&q=victoria+windows&aq=f&oq=victoria+window) to erase drive with test write function (multipass about 48 hours). But after hdderase I got my capacity back.

If you can provide more information, then do it, please.