OCZ Vertex 2 failed after 4 weeks. :( Help!

[Meowzzle]

I recently bought an OCZ Vertex 2, a little over 4 weeks ago. I walk out of my room for about 10 minutes today, come back in, and see "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device" on the screen for some reason. I reboot and check my BIOS. The BIOS still detects the OCZ as being there...but I can't select it. I can switch it to IDE from the bios, so I try that, same thing. Set it back to AHCI, still no go. So I boot from the W7 disc, and go to repair. I select the system repair option, it fails, and I check the details, here what it said:

Event Name: StartupRepairOffline
Problem Signature 07: Missing Boot Manager

Boot Manager is Missing or Corrupt
Repair Action: File Repair Failed
Error Code = 0x15

The weird thing? If I wanted to, it'd let me install a new copy of W7 on the hard drive....I haven't tried that option yet since I'd like to save my data that's on there now. Is there any way to accomplish this, or am I up a creek?

 

[Emulex]

is that a sandforce? they do all still have some flakiness with sleep mode. the recommendation across the board is to never sleep your machine. lol. okay. macbook not going to sleep. funny.

 

[Big Lar]

Try the Win7 repair a couple more times and see if it works. Had to do that once with the Beta, not sure if it will work with the retail/oem versions.
Have you got a recovery disc for Win7? If so I "think" you can do a fixmbr or a fixboot with it. Sorry I can't be of more help as I have not done this in quite some time.

Larry

ps. I'm sure someone will pop in with the correct command.

 

[Meowzzle]

Yah, this was a sandforce.

I booted to the w7 disc and tried a couple different commands from the command prompt under the repair utility. None of them worked, it wouldn't even detect that w7 was on the partition

bootrec /fixboot, bootrec /rebuildbcd, and a couple others, none of them worked. I just reinstalled w7. Pain in the ass. Funny thing is, it did this 2 days out of the box once, but I was able to fix it booting to the w7 disc and repairing.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Yah, this was a sandforce.

I booted to the w7 disc and tried a couple different commands from the command prompt under the repair utility. None of them worked, it wouldn't even detect that w7 was on the partition

bootrec /fixboot, bootrec /rebuildbcd, and a couple others, none of them worked. I just reinstalled w7. Pain in the ass. Funny thing is, it did this 2 days out of the box once, but I was able to fix it booting to the w7 disc and repairing.

I had a similar experience with an Intel X25-M 160GB last week. Mine showed up fine in the BIOS but the boot sector somehow got corrupted. I even took off my overclock about a month ago. I had changed video cards a few times over the past two months (plus I ghosted W7 from an 80GB X25-M to the current X25-M 160GB 6 mos ago), but when the boot sector got corrupted I had been running my 6870 for two solid weeks, and then I went on a day trip and the next day when I came back and tried to boot my PC - nada.

Weird. Fixing it with the Win7 boot disk did the trick for me. I leave my SATA ports in RAID mode because I have 2x 1TB 7200.12 drives that I run in RAID 1, but I think I did the fix while under either AHCI or IDE mode.

I had to do the fix a couple times and reboot a couple times to get the Win7 installation to show up (possibly in IDE mode) -- next time some persistance might get the drive showing back up in the win7 "repair" section. Try loading it 2 or 3 times.

 

[HendrixFan]

Did you have a second drive in the system when you installed Windows? That is known to cause the problem you are having. I made that mistake and the bootloader was loaded onto my spindle drive. Before I found the solution I had to keep my Win7 disc in the drive to boot into Windows.

After a repair it worked fine, and with a fresh install with no other drives in the system I have had zero problems.

 

[Meowzzle]

I have a second drive in there, yeah. But the odd thing is it happens after a while, not right after installation.

 

[Meowzzle]

I had a similar experience with an Intel X25-M 160GB last week. Mine showed up fine in the BIOS but the boot sector somehow got corrupted. I even took off my overclock about a month ago. I had changed video cards a few times over the past two months (plus I ghosted W7 from an 80GB X25-M to the current X25-M 160GB 6 mos ago), but when the boot sector got corrupted I had been running my 6870 for two solid weeks, and then I went on a day trip and the next day when I came back and tried to boot my PC - nada.

Weird. Fixing it with the Win7 boot disk did the trick for me. I leave my SATA ports in RAID mode because I have 2x 1TB 7200.12 drives that I run in RAID 1, but I think I did the fix while under either AHCI or IDE mode.

I had to do the fix a couple times and reboot a couple times to get the Win7 installation to show up (possibly in IDE mode) -- next time some persistance might get the drive showing back up in the win7 "repair" section. Try loading it 2 or 3 times.

I tried 3 times to no avail unfortunately