Update 21-11-2016: Mini Linux was removed from recent Hiren’s Boot CD versions. Fixing a frozen Intel SSD suffering from the 8MB bug requires a more technical approach but it’s no rocket science once you know what you have to do. And since my friend has all the luck in the world, sure enough his SSD was frozen.
Some people have been able to start from scratch by wiping the drive’s contents with utilities such as HDDErase and Parted Magic but this only works if your SSD is not ‘frozen’. That’s right, all data on the drive is permanently lost. The only way to get the SSD back to work is to erase it. Once this error occurs, no data on the SSD can be accessed and the user cannot write to or read from the SSD.
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This will reduce the capacity of the SSD to 8MB and change the serial number to “BAD_CTX 0000013x”. The 8MB bug is caused by an unexpected power loss under specific conditions. As my friend never encountered issues with his SSD and wasn’t up to date about this fact, he never updated his SSD’s firmware, which could have prevented this bug from happening.
Several minutes of Googling lead me into the right direction My friend’s SSD was suffering from the 8MB bug that was discovered in (almost all) Intel SSD firmwares, back in July 2011. This got me thinking that the SSD was dead, which was odd, as the BIOS was still recognizing it.
Even bootable partition and hard drive managers showed no sign of the SSD. The BIOS recognized his SSD, an Intel SSD sa2bw120g3a, but Windows was nowhere to be found. A friend of mine was having issues booting his laptop.
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