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I've just dug out an old 30g ssd from my storage box, and it's an OCZ core series v2When I plug it into my desktop, it wouldn't work, and windows complains that it needs to be re-formattedHowever both diskpart, windows' built-in format tool, and EaseUS all didn't seems to work.Using easeus' ssd tool, I could still browse the files on the system and what not, but I couldn't do any writing to it.Tried using the JMicron Firmware update tool, but it even wouldn't detect the drive is there so no luck there.Boot into Linux and tried GParted, no luck. Complaining about I/O error, and the drive just disappear from systemAny help would be appreciate here (expect to ditch this drive and get a new one though.)Thanks in Advance. I've just dug out an old 30g ssd from my storage box, and it's an OCZ core series v2When I plug it into my desktop, it wouldn't work, and windows complains that it needs to be re-formattedHowever both diskpart, windows' built-in format tool, and EaseUS all didn't seems to work.Using easeus' ssd tool, I could still browse the files on the system and what not, but I couldn't do any writing to it.Tried using the JMicron Firmware update tool, but it even wouldn't detect the drive is there so no luck there.Boot into Linux and tried GParted, no luck. Complaining about I/O error, and the drive just disappear from systemAny help would be appreciate here (expect to ditch this drive and get a new one though.)Thanks in AdvanceDoes it appear on the list of avaiable partitions if you try to install Windows 10 from DVD/USB?
OCZ brings big performance upgrade for old Vertex, Agility, Solid2 SSDs By Jose Vilches on March 28, 2012, 13:30 OCZ has released a new firmware update for its range of SSDs running Indilinx. Having trouble with your SSD, read the general support FAQs or contact support.
I had a similiar issue once, and that made me able to delete the partitions and create them new.
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Okay, I’ll teach you how you can update OCZ SSD firmware on your primary hard drive from USB in 3 steps, using OCZ’s Linux based firmware-flash utility.There are a lot of people(like me) who don’t want to waste a CD for such a small file, that you are gonna use only once anyway. And there are also a lot of people who don’t even have a CD/DVD drive, because they’re on a NetBook, or something like that.So we need a different solution.
The answer is: USB stick! We are gonna install the Linux-based flash utility on a USB stick. You can basically do it with any USB drive, but a stick is just very easy, because we don’t need capacity. Step 1: Find out what firmware version is on your SSDTo do this, you can either use, or download.I’ll assume you use OCZ’s toolbox, because you don’t need to install anything to run it, but both are good.
When you’ve downloaded OCZ’s toolbox, unzip it, run the unzipped.exe. Now you should get this window. First, format your USB stick. Right click on it, and select “Format”, and make sure you select FAT32, because Linux is no good friend of NTFS. Remember the drive letter(G: in my case).
Now run the freshly-downloaded UNetbootin file, select “Diskimage”, browse to your “ocz-tools-xxx.iso”. And select your formatted USB drive.Double-check that you selected the right drive, and hit “ok”. It will now copy all the files to your USB stick, and when it’s finnished, ask you if you want to reboot. Save all your work, and hit “Reboot now”. Step 3: Install OCZ SSD firmware from USBUsually, during you BIOS, there is something like “Press F8 for boot menu”, or some other key. You want to boot menu, so hit that key.
Alternatively, you can enter the BIOS setup, and set your USB stick as the first boot device, but that is more complicated. Anyway, you want to select the USB stick. Here’s a picture of what my boot menu looks like. On the top you see my SSD, on the lower end the USB stick.Hit enter. The difficult part in this step is finding your boot menu, because there are really a lot of different ones.
If you can’t find it, refer to your motherboard’s manual.Now, don’t freak out, you’ll get a Unetbootin menu, where you can select serveral options, with a timer on the default option. Just leave it, or hit enter. You can, if you really want to do it by yourself, select “microcore”, but it really makes no difference at all. Picture!Now it will just boot into OCZ’s edit on the Linux “TinyCore” kernel(be patient though).
Here you can select what you want to do, flash firmware, or other fixes and tweaks.Note that there is a special option to flash your firmware for Mac. I don’t know what it does, but because this guide is not suitable for Mac, it doesn’t really matter. I will make a Mac-compatible version of this guide when I have the time for it.That was it! Now you van just click whatever you want to do, and follow the on-screen instructions. When you return to Windows, check your SSD’s firmware version again, just to make sure it worked.:-)If you think this guide was usefull, or you want to add something to it, please leave a comment. Post navigation.
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