Some would ask you to look at the SMART info, but I'm not really sure how to "read" the info anyway. What does Samsung Magician say?
Note that I thought I buggered two of my SSDs. The first to go was my Samsung 840 last year. Can't be seen by BIOS or Windows Disk Management. DEAD. Got a Samsung 850 as a replacement. Then recently, my Crucial M4 decided to disappear as well. Bugger!!
What is this? Is my PC playing an April Fool's joke on me?
Like I said earlier, the Crucial M4 wasn't showing up in BIOS or in Disk Management in both PCs (new i5 6600K and old i5 750) so it was dead. DEAD. I decided to open up the SSD, just curious to see the inside, nothing burnt or looked worn, so I re-assembled the SSD. 4 screws, one of which was under a warranty sticker... this thing is almost 5 years old so I doubt it was still under warranty.... checked the Crucial website and it said 3 years. So nothing to lose and I'd was able to see the inside of an SSD. Just out of curiousity, I re-connected it to the i5 750 PC, booted it up, and to my surprise, it booted up from the Crucial M4 SSD!! It's ALIVE!!
Plugged it back into my i5 6600K PC and it starts up like nothing's happened. 4 freaking hours of troubleshooting, trying different SATA cables, different power cables, and then it just boots up like nothing's even happened! I do notice my drive letters have been swapped for the E: and D: drives, but that's about it. Ran Samsung Magician... but the new interface gives less info than the old one, but suffice to say, it didn't detect any errors. C-prompt (wmic diskdrive get status) also declares all drives OK.
WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE???!?!!?!!
I'm reluctant to trust this SSD any more... the plan was to "retire" it and put it on my son's PC (the i5 750 one), install Win10 on it, and keep the bare minimum on the drive itself. I think I'll do that sooner (next week) rather than later.
I reinstalled the Crucial M4 on my system, but it's now relegated to running games as a second Steam drive. I also plugged in my old 840 and BIOS sees it so there's hope... still not being recognized by Windows Disk Management.
