Mike, Have you tried using diskpart to view the drive? My guess is it may be offline and so won't appear. Best, Al
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Boyd Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Recovering SSD Hi Steve, Yes, this is correct. I do not see the drive in either Disk Management or This PC. I am not sure if it is showing in Device Manager, because I do not know the name of the device, only the name that I assigned to it. Of course I know the manufacturer and the model of the drive, but this rarely shows up anywhere unless the drive is assigned thisas its name in This PC. Mike [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Steve Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 10:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Recovering SSD Just changing the subject, and, is your SSD back in a raw state? You're saying when you go into disk manager, you can't see it at all? ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Boyd To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 10:22 AM Subject: [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] For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
