Insert the SanDisk Read圜ache SSD into the spare bay with the data and power socket facing the rear face of the computer case.Ħ. Locate a spare bay underneath or near your main the hard disk drive bay.ĥ. Remove the side access panel (please refer to your computer's owner manual if you do not know how to do this).Ĥ. Disconnect the computer from any electrical sources to avoid potential damage to the motherboard and yourself.ģ. The ExpressCache software will partition and format the drive in a proprietary file system.Ģ. You must NOT partition the SanDisk Read圜ache Drive. Therefore, it MUST be installed as a non-bootable secondary drive on your desktop computer. NOTE: The SanDisk Read圜ache SSD is designed to work in conjunction with your existing system hard disk drive. STEP 1 - Install the SanDisk Read圜ache SSD on a desktop computer There is NO need to replace or clone your current hard drive.īefore installing the SanDisk Read圜ache SSD, please review components or cables required to install it. I was looking on an alternative if I had to replace my SSD disks like upgrading to a m.2 controller if possible.Installing the SanDisk Read圜ache SSD is easy. some of the photos are related to my MSI motherboard, just ignore them if not relavant. Could you please help me to get my disk back? Photos or hwinfo logs are on Google drive (I will put more images or info to this folder, if you need more information.

SSD Dashboard shows it is in good life health but just I cannot use it. I have used DBAN, Gparted live, Windows diskpart and Mac’s diskutil, Intel’s RST but no good result. I have used an adapter as well ( Codegen Codmax mSata to USB) to read and initialize disk, or format. What can I do to erase literally everything on this SSD, is there a way to reset to factory settings, wipe any partition and raid array so I can reuse it. I used SanDisk SSD Dashboard to erase and sanitize but it did not work out (by the way I use Windows 7 Home 64 bit edition on one single Sandisk SSD now).

On startup it shows Smart Event 0 for that disk. A few years back when I was upgrading Windows 10, the electricity was gone, in the middle of the update, my computer wouldn’t boot afterwards and while checking RAID setup, I removed one of the SSDs from RAID setup (became non-raid disk), and then there was still one SSD which is in RAID array (the size shown like 119 GB on that RAID0 setup but actually there is one 64G SSD disk). I have two SANDISK U100 64 GB SDSA5DK-064G SSD (non accessible one is with serial : 120854300982) on my MSI GT70 ONC notebook ( MSI Specification ) with MSI RAID controller MS-1762.

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