Intel X25-M Postville G2 initialization error

[thj]

Hello,

I received a brand new 160GB Intel X25-M Postville SSD last month, and it has been great so far. I use it in a Lenovo Thinkpad X200s.

Then today... Suddenly Windows 7 hang, no blue screen, just completely dead. After 5 minutes, i took the power. Booted the PC, and now it can't find the disk. Upon boot, it beeps two times, and gives me the error:

ERROR
2100: HDD0 (hard disk drive) initialization error (1)

I can't see it in the BIOS either.

Have you got any ideas on how to fix this? Or is it just broken, so I should get it replaced? Is this a known issue with these new SSD drives?
I know about the last version (G1 I believe?) of the Intel SSD's, that they had an error when you used harddrive password. I only use BIOS password on my Thinkpad.

Thanks in advance!

 

[schizo]

My X-25M G2 was DOA, not recognized by my BIOS out of the box. Maybe this is endemic to the design? Definitely give intel a call.

 

[thj]

That doesn't sound too good.
There's no firmware update for the G2, right?

 

[Old Hippie]

I know about the last version (G1 I believe?) of the Intel SSD's, that they had an error when you used harddrive password.

The G2 version had the password problem but was supposed to be fixed.

Intel found that if a user sets up a BIOS password on the SSD, then disables or changes the password, the contents of the drive become corrupted and irretrievably lost.