Hi all,
I've had my Falcon II about 3 months now and been using it as my windows 7 drive - recently my pc totally crashed and i couldn't get into windows no matter what i tried. In the end I though i would do a re-install but this failed, so I ended up installing W7 on my standard SATA drive.
I noticed the latest firmware was ready for download so downloaded, ran it (requires XP compatibility mode) and upgraded the firmware on the SSD. During the process it mentioned there were some bad blocks, but stated the upgrade was succesful and the drive reports itsef as using firmware 1916.
The health status is reported as good @ 94%, with 67 (103 decimal) blocks listed as bad. But every now and then when boot up my pc it wont boot from the drive.
Now I've also noticed that if your pc crashes it could cause a problem with the SSD as under the tweaks it advises you to set 'enable cache' as not required, but the system will not allow you to edit it, thus giving the potential of data loss when system crashes.
can anyone advise on next course of action
thanks
I've had my Falcon II about 3 months now and been using it as my windows 7 drive - recently my pc totally crashed and i couldn't get into windows no matter what i tried. In the end I though i would do a re-install but this failed, so I ended up installing W7 on my standard SATA drive.
I noticed the latest firmware was ready for download so downloaded, ran it (requires XP compatibility mode) and upgraded the firmware on the SSD. During the process it mentioned there were some bad blocks, but stated the upgrade was succesful and the drive reports itsef as using firmware 1916.
The health status is reported as good @ 94%, with 67 (103 decimal) blocks listed as bad. But every now and then when boot up my pc it wont boot from the drive.
Now I've also noticed that if your pc crashes it could cause a problem with the SSD as under the tweaks it advises you to set 'enable cache' as not required, but the system will not allow you to edit it, thus giving the potential of data loss when system crashes.
can anyone advise on next course of action
thanks
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