SSD and corrupted master boot record

I have a 120GB INTEL X25-M SSD as the main drive which boots windows 7 (about 2 months old). Recently my pc would hang randomly and boot only in repair mode. No automatic repair or recovery image would fix it. It will only boot if I used the bootrec.exe /fixmbr command in repair mode. This has happened already 3 times. I checked the drive for errors but it is healthy.

Is this normal? Do I need to return it?

iKarampa

Posted 2011-05-14T16:30:15.027

Reputation: 518

Is there anything being recorded in the event log? – Zian Choy – 2011-05-14T19:10:24.780

@ZianChoy, nothing except the event for the hang – iKarampa – 2011-05-14T19:49:11.427

Answers

Based on the suggestions from http://communities.intel.com/thread/12839?start=0&tstart=0 and since your drive worked fine for 2 months, I suggest:

Try wiping the disk with HDDErase ("for best results, connect it to the first sata port (sata0/port0), then go into the bios and set the sata controller to ide mode. if there is an additional 'enhanced/compatible' setting, set it to compatible.")
Get a replacement drive if #1 fails.

Zian Choy

Posted 2011-05-14T16:30:15.027

Reputation: 1 394

I will give it a go and keep you updated. – iKarampa – 2011-05-18T08:14:00.627