HELP! Windows 7 will not start, my SSD says there is nothing on it!

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Metalmoore04

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Hello, I could really use some help... I was overclocking an old PC and having no problems. I can only overclock the FSB, but my temps are all very cool. Everything was going smooth until I restarted to find there is no boot device and my SSD claims to be completely empty, no partitions and unformatted! I went to command line and checked with diskpart and it confirms there is nothing on the disk! The SSD is a new 120gb Sandisk and still recognized in the bios, so what happened to all my data? How do I recover? I tried returning everything to stock settings and still the same problem. Please help...

AsRock P4VM900-Sata2 mobo
Pentium 4 Northwood 3.2 overclocked ~ 3.55
2gb ddr 400 Samsung
Geforce GTX 280 1gb ddr3
600w bronze rated psu
120gb Sandisk SSD
 
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Aside from the data issue, an SSD in a Pentium 4 with 2 GB of RAM is an ... um.. interesting hardware choice.
Why would you not upgrade the RAM or swap the system for one with a faster CPU? For the price of a 120 gb SSD you could have gotten a used Core 2 Duo system with 4 gig of RAM.

With the SSD in a P4 system with not a lot of RAM you will be faaasst to load something then be sloooowwww with using it. It's like getting into a fast car, zooming to a movie theater at 120 mph, then waiting in a long line of people to actually get inside.
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Hey there, Metalmoore04!

This is indeed odd. If you had important data on that drive, I'd suggest that you connect it to a different computer and not write anything at all on it, to avoid overwriting existing data. It might be a long shot, but you could try some data recovery programs like the ones suggested from those links: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html & http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm.

Please let me know how it goes.
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You will want to make a clone/image of the whole drive first because unlike Hard Drives, SSD's are constantly performing wear leveling operations in the background, so even if no data is written as long as the SSD is powered on you will actually experience overwriting anyway.
 
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hang-the-9

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Aside from the data issue, an SSD in a Pentium 4 with 2 GB of RAM is an ... um.. interesting hardware choice.
Why would you not upgrade the RAM or swap the system for one with a faster CPU? For the price of a 120 gb SSD you could have gotten a used Core 2 Duo system with 4 gig of RAM.

With the SSD in a P4 system with not a lot of RAM you will be faaasst to load something then be sloooowwww with using it. It's like getting into a fast car, zooming to a movie theater at 120 mph, then waiting in a long line of people to actually get inside.
 
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