Dead Patriot PS-100 32GB SSD?

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Commence wishful thinking:

I got a PS-100 32gb ssd in a combo deal from a seller here. When I hooked it all up and prepared to install Win7 the following occured:

  1. Did not recognize SSD so I rebooted and it went into Win7 setup
  2. While attempting to install Win7 it locked up around 14% and sat there for hours, I shutdown and abandoned it.
When returning days later to investigate, the SSD would not be recognized. I tried the following:

  1. Booting from SSD; does not recognize (as before)
  2. Putting SSD in USB dock on XP and Win7 machines; neither recognize it
    • nothing in bios
    • nothing in disc management
    • nothing in my computer
Before I give up on it this little SSD, are there any tips or tricks to get this thing back up and running? I'm willing to just let it go, of course, but not before exhausting all my simple/free options. Waste not, want not!



Thank you in advance.
 
Have you tried using any boot utlitity program to see if it recongizes it? Like OCZ, or intel tool box? I would see if one of the tools would see it, and try secure erasing it. If one of the tools can't, :( probably is bad.
 
Nexillus said:
Have you tried using any boot utlitity program to see if it recongizes it? Like OCZ, or intel tool box? I would see if one of the tools would see it, and try secure erasing it. If one of the tools can't, :( probably is bad.
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No, I haven't. I'll have to give one or both of those a try. All I have at my disposal right now is my M6600, so I'll have to either wait to get back home to my workbench or throw this ssd (which I have with me) in the 2nd bay. I'm assuming one of these programs will be able to do something even though I haven't been able to see the ssd anywhere?
 
When trying to install Win 7 make sure no other HDD's or SSD are plugged in. I had that issue with a few different brands.
 
Cataulin said:
When trying to install Win 7 make sure no other HDD's or SSD are plugged in. I had that issue with a few different brands.
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I know what you mean. But iirc, I don't believe I had anything else hooked up.
 
Is your computer's BIOs in AHCI? Are you able to try this in another SATA port different cable or even different computer?
 
Cataulin said:
Is your computer's BIOs in AHCI? Are you able to try this in another SATA port different cable or even different computer?
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I believe it was in AHCI at the time I first attempted. I'll have to confirm this later. All I have at my disposal at the moment is laptop M6600 which I'm busy using.

I have the ssd and a USB SATA dock here, any diagnosing/problem solving I do with that now? Or do I need to wait til i get home to my workbench?
 
I've never had any luck with setting up my SSD on a usb and getting it to work. I would just wait till you get home. You may get better advice later on today tho. Who knows.
 
Unfortunately, nothing has prevailed at detecting the drive. It is tango uniform. Oh well. Not sure if I killed it somehow or it came from the seller like that. I'm not too worried about it. 32GB wouldn't get me very far anyways.

What I am now worried about is what I'm going to do with the empty aluminum shell the ssd is house in! I'm thinking a business card holder or wallet (where you can slide the cards/cash out the end where the sata plugs were. :)
 
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