Solid-State Drives (SSD)

[Darklands]

Hi, i just got a 64gb m225 and decided to update the firmware my current is 1571, i made a bootable disk from the crucial dowload page for this drive, tried to use it and got the following error.

i got to the first screen press return to continue to boot from cd, next was a load of dos script to fast to read then

Please eject cd and reboot computer, ssdchk.exe read error.

can anybody help?

[Parmenion59]

i had the same, and i use an usb key and it's work

[sfaure]

make sure the bios settings are also to "IDE" or "ATA" mode, not ahci.  I dont believe the flash can occur w/ AHCI (its dos based and dos doesnt understand ahci)

[Darklands]

I'm using Raid settings, i have two WD disks in raid 0 the SSD isn't, it a non-raid member.

[sfaure · Accepted solution]

to flash the disk you probably need to put it into non-raid env (ide mode).  after flashed you could move settings for the ide/ahci mode back.

Indeed i'm such a paranoid **bleep** i would sugguest setting ide mode and unplugging the other dirves while flashing.

[Darklands]

Looks like you were right, after changing the bios settings back to IDE it was a doddle, also i removed the other drives just to be safe.

Cheers for your help,  D