Problem with SSD drive - check disk gives up and drive disappears

[benskia]

Hi everyone,

At first I thought I had a virus.
But, pretty sure now its a duff SSD drive that causes my woes.

My PC started hanging after about 5 minutes of use.
I put an old SSD in with a previous install and have been making do with that temporarily.

Tried virus checking the original disk, and it seemed to get stuck at a certain point everytime.

Now I've tried connecting up the suspicious SSD and doing a disk check on it with fix bad sectors.

After about 10 minutes, the check disk job gets stuck at about 10% through. Then the check disk window just vanishes.

Think its a virus or faulty SSD that I could try to return?

Thanks.

 

[Neolink]

Sounds like it has bad sectors, try a proper tool to check for them like HDTune or something

If it is bad sectors though, get it returned! You can try to repair them with certain payware but it is really unacceptable for a young SSD to have bad sectors.

 

[unleashed]

I would RMA it straight away. As Neolink said, it's really unacceptable for a young drive to have bad sectors.

Have you tried testing the drive using the manufacturers utility?

 

[wazza300]

what make/model ssd?