Have no idea, since I don't have an internal SSD. Dave Carlson Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and pioneer
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Brusco" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 07:56 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] [Bulk] Defraging SSD's 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] > > 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/
