Dave, is the wipe in ccleaner safe to use on ssds?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Carlson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] [Bulk] Defraging SSD's
Mike,
Just guessing here. Perhaps removing the device itself using the device
manager and then rebooting the PC and reconnecting the drive. If that
doesn't work, perhaps connecting the drive (it is a USB, correct?) to
another PC and see if that one will recognize it and/or allow
reformatting.
If you have a copy of CCleaner you might want to use their wipe drive
feature if you can ever get the drive to be recognized on your PC.
Good luck.
Dave Carlson
Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and pioneer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Boyd" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 07:22 AM
Subject: [Bulk] [JAWS-Users] Defraging SSD's
I would like to share my experience with my Crucial 120 GB SSD. I had
created a Windows Recovery partition on this SSD, which reduced the
available space from its normal size of around 105 GB down to ony 32.1 GB.
As I did not use the drive for anything at the time, I simply stored it
away
incase I ever needed it. Lately however, I did have nother need for the
drive, so I decided to remove the recovery partition from it to give me
back
the full amount of available space on it, and I chose to do this by
reformatting the drive. So, I did this, and when finished, the drive was
cleaned of its contents, of course, but the available space did not return
to the 105 GB that I expected, it stayed at 32.1 GB. I then consulted some
articles on how to recover the lost space on the drive, and concluded that
the partition had not been removed from the drive, and I performed the
necessary action to remove it through disk management. Well, low and
behold,
the entire drive disappeared from my drive list in This PC, and nothing I
have tried has been able to make the computer recognize the drive again.
When I plug the drive into the computer, I get the normal connection
sounds
an such, but the drive is not appearing in the drive list. So, it seems to
me, that the drive is hidden in some fashion, and I am not surehow to go
about getting it to appear again. From what further reading I have done on
the subject, I believe it may be something in how the computer changed the
binary code on the drive, since any given empty drive should be written
with
all zeroes, mine was apparently over written in some fashion with all ones
or a combination of both. In any case, I am now at a loss as how to
recover
the drive if possible. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Mike
[email protected]
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