- May 16, 2013
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Hi there,
A while back I bought the Mushkin 480GB mSATA drive. It worked great in my ultrabook (Toshiba Z930).
Last week, however, the computer started intermittently freezing. Usually the computer would restart, and be fine, and like a fool I didn't think to backup my data.
The freezing became more and more frequent until I decided to take a look at it. I noticed that the BIOS now was sometimes not recognizing the drive, and when this happened - of course - the computer would not boot. Sometimes changing the orientation of the computer "seemed to let the computer boot (admittedly I may have been imagining it), so I started thinking that maybe the drive was not installed properly. It was in good and tight, and reinstalling it did not fix the problem. Contacts look clean.
I have tried two other mSATA drives in the computer and they are both recognized properly.
I also tried connecting the Mushkin to a mSATA->SATA adapter, connected to a second computer. Windows 7's disk management tool does not recognize the drive. My other drives are recognized in the same adapter.
Finally, today after repeatedly trying different drives in my computer, I noticed that ONE time (out of perhaps 10-15) the BIOS identified my drive as a Sandforce S-something drive. It did not boot, and I tried many times afterwards and the BIOS no longer identifies any drive as connected.
I've experimented with all the SATA settings on my laptop.
Am I screwed, or is there something I can try ? I've got a lot of data on that thing that I would hate to lose.
thanks for reading.
A while back I bought the Mushkin 480GB mSATA drive. It worked great in my ultrabook (Toshiba Z930).
Last week, however, the computer started intermittently freezing. Usually the computer would restart, and be fine, and like a fool I didn't think to backup my data.
The freezing became more and more frequent until I decided to take a look at it. I noticed that the BIOS now was sometimes not recognizing the drive, and when this happened - of course - the computer would not boot. Sometimes changing the orientation of the computer "seemed to let the computer boot (admittedly I may have been imagining it), so I started thinking that maybe the drive was not installed properly. It was in good and tight, and reinstalling it did not fix the problem. Contacts look clean.
I have tried two other mSATA drives in the computer and they are both recognized properly.
I also tried connecting the Mushkin to a mSATA->SATA adapter, connected to a second computer. Windows 7's disk management tool does not recognize the drive. My other drives are recognized in the same adapter.
Finally, today after repeatedly trying different drives in my computer, I noticed that ONE time (out of perhaps 10-15) the BIOS identified my drive as a Sandforce S-something drive. It did not boot, and I tried many times afterwards and the BIOS no longer identifies any drive as connected.
I've experimented with all the SATA settings on my laptop.
Am I screwed, or is there something I can try ? I've got a lot of data on that thing that I would hate to lose.
thanks for reading.
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