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- Dec 21, 2010
Hi , all...
A couple of weeks ago I picked up 2 MicroCenter (rebadged A-Data) 64 GB Sandforce SSD's.
My intentions were to use one as the 'Boot Drive' in my main machine and use the second drive to replace the factory drive in my son's netbook.
Just for grins , I set them up in a Raid 0 configuration in my main machine--the results were spectacular !!
Anyway , my son arrived home from college last Friday and it was time to get down to business. I broke the Raid 0 array and re-installed Windows 7 in my main machine on a single drive--everything went perfectly.
I then tore apart my son's netbook to install the second SSD --that didn't go very well. Windows 7 will not install. The diagnostic routine from the W7 disc(actually loading from a USB Thumbdrive) says that the partition table is corrupted.
Thinking that the 'thumbdrive' may have gotten mucked up , I removed the SSD from the netbook and tried to install W7 from the original DVD and I got the same result , so I am pretty sure that the drive is borked.
I am very familiar with 'platter' type HDD's and am comfortable playing around with them ( I used the 'freezer trick' on a dead drive a few years back and got a nice bonus from my boss for retrieving some very valuable data !) but SSD's seem to be a very different breed of cat.
Q. Has anyone else encountered the same problem ? If so , do you have any suggestions as to how to proceed ?
A couple of weeks ago I picked up 2 MicroCenter (rebadged A-Data) 64 GB Sandforce SSD's.
My intentions were to use one as the 'Boot Drive' in my main machine and use the second drive to replace the factory drive in my son's netbook.
Just for grins , I set them up in a Raid 0 configuration in my main machine--the results were spectacular !!
Anyway , my son arrived home from college last Friday and it was time to get down to business. I broke the Raid 0 array and re-installed Windows 7 in my main machine on a single drive--everything went perfectly.
I then tore apart my son's netbook to install the second SSD --that didn't go very well. Windows 7 will not install. The diagnostic routine from the W7 disc(actually loading from a USB Thumbdrive) says that the partition table is corrupted.
Thinking that the 'thumbdrive' may have gotten mucked up , I removed the SSD from the netbook and tried to install W7 from the original DVD and I got the same result , so I am pretty sure that the drive is borked.
I am very familiar with 'platter' type HDD's and am comfortable playing around with them ( I used the 'freezer trick' on a dead drive a few years back and got a nice bonus from my boss for retrieving some very valuable data !) but SSD's seem to be a very different breed of cat.
Q. Has anyone else encountered the same problem ? If so , do you have any suggestions as to how to proceed ?