X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown

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I have used this drive for 2 days now in my MacBook Pro (early 2008). Before I installed anything I successfully updated the firmware to the latest release (045C8820) and at last I was very happy with the drive's performance.

Now, after a restart the drive seems to be broken, in system profiler the drive's capacity is 8mb, modell stays INTEL SSDSA2MH160G1GC but now the strange part-> serial is shown as BAD_CTX.

Well, anyone has an idea? Perhaps a way to reset the drive or is it broken?

Of course this happens on saturday, 1 day before my vacation

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Seems you are not alone, although I think this is rare. Try hdderase. If that does not work try to reflash. Otherswise it looks like an rma.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=83&threadid=2292224 http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=83&threadid=2292224

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Would it be possible to explain how we are supposed to flash the ssd drive, I am not a computer expert and I'm sure there are other folks in the forum that can benefit from a detailed procedure on how to revive the dead ssd drives by flashing them.

The utilities you describe do not work with 64 bit win 7 so how are we supposed to fix the issue ????

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I have the same problem with my INTEL SSDSA2BW160G3L.

Any news why this happens and on how to solve it properly?

How can I make a boot disk with hderase on it?

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There is latest firmware available on Intel website address to this issue, but the data on the drive is not recoverable.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18363 http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18363