Solid-State Drives (SSD)

[ShockTherapy]

Hello.

I've just purchased a Crucial M225 128GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive.  After installing Windows Vista and rebooting the computer for the 4th or 5th time it failed to boot.  Diskpart tells me that there is no partition on the drive?! 

When I try to re-install Windows Vista I get the following error message.

Failed to format the selected partition. [Error: 0x80070057].

Can anybody help me please?

Thank you.

[mcnaugha · Accepted solution]

Sounds like a DOA drive. I had one of these at the weekend. Just got my replacement in today. Cost me to send it back and then a waiting game of 3 days.

I doubt you'll recover the drive now. You should probably initiate an RMA.

Looks like these drives have a high failure rate.  I'm dreading this replacement one going too. I flashed the firmware up to 1711 only to learn it's been pulled for a Windows 7 potential issue. Great.

[ShockTherapy]

Thanks for the reply.

Looks like I'll have to sort out an RMA.  Gutted - spent over £200 and it's no good.  Are there really many problems with these drives?!?!