Help With Crucial M4 512GB

[ThisMonsterLives]

I have a user who did a hard shut down, and afterwards their SSD was no longer detected. Crucial told me to power cycle the drive and it would likely work again.

Instructions here:

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S...quot-disappear-quot-from-my-system/ta-p/65215

I tried doing that multiple times with no luck. I even left it plugged in all night. I was just hoping someone here had experienced this and had some suggestions.

 

[ilal2ielli]

Also, do you know if it has the latest firmware?

Earlier firmwares had a power on hours bug that would render it unusable after it hit the threshold. You can try updating firmware to see if it comes back too.

 

[Rectal Prolapse]

If it is that too-many-hours issue with the firmware, you can boot from a different drive, then after the OS is finished booting, plug in your M4 and try the update. The OS hopefully should see the drive allowing the update to take place.

 

[ThisMonsterLives]

Firmware version is 010G. When I say not detected, I mean by the bios, connected via USB, or any other way I try. So I certainly can't update the firmware at this point.