New Kingston SSD dead? Help please!

Nuno Miguel Costa

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Hey guys!

I have had this Kingston 120gb SSD for one year now and it worked fine every single day (without showing any failure signs) until 2 days ago. I left my pc for 30 minutes, and when i came back, it was in sleep mode as usual, but i couldnt click on anything, i could only move the mouse. So i restarted it and then it said 'reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key'. And then i restarted a few more times and the same happened.

Things i did after (with no avail):
-checked if the SSD appeared on bios
-unpluged and repluged all the cables, and switched them too.
-Changed my boot order in bios.
-Unplugged every other hard drives and left only the SSD(then when i rsstarted it said something like SHELL in yellow or something, like a comand prompt) but still, i couldnt boot to windows.
-Inserted windows cd and then when it asked me to choose the drive to repair/install windows, only my hdd appeared.
-reseted bios to defaul settings.
-tried all the above in a friends pc too.

By now, my thoughts would be to RMA my SSD. But the strange thing is that it wasnt showing any failure/slowing down signs up until this happened. And I bought it only a year ago and i didnt even defraged it ever.

Any help please?

One note: one month ago before this happened i reformatted my pc and did a fresh install of windows, but still it was working fine up until 2 days ago.
 

goodguy713

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you could try clearing your cmos .. making sure that in your bio's its set as ACHI. when you hook it up to another computer go to disk management by left clicking on computer from the start menu and then selecting manage an interface will show up and then on the left side of the window you will see disk management click on that and try to assign the drive a letter. if needed but you can also reformat it in this way. if it dose not show up it could very well be a dead drive and RMA would be the last option.
 

Nuno Miguel Costa

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It is set as ACHI yes. I havent cleared CMOS but i've reset all bios settings to default and i've tried that in another pc aswell (so that excludes the motherboard being the culprit?). And can i do the disk managment thing by connecting it through usb (using a usb to sata adapter that i removed from an external HARD drive)? Because right now i only have a laptop with me
 
It is set as ACHI yes. I havent cleared CMOS but i've reset all bios settings to default and i've tried that in another pc aswell (so that excludes the motherboard being the culprit?). And can i do the disk managment thing by connecting it through usb (using a usb to sata adapter that i removed from an external HARD drive)? Because right now i only have a laptop with me

Yes, USB connected drives also show up in Disk Mgmt. Give it a try, but it sounds like it is dead.

Yogi